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Maritime University, Okerenkoko: Is Malami playing the fifth columnist?

Opinion
The Niger Delta region seems to be constantly at war with itself. Whilst every region within the Nigerian space reinvent themselves to better their future, our people constantly throw brickbats at one another in order to score cheap political points. At the slightest opportunity, politicians use the youth of their domain to feather their political nests. The latest season of anomie concerns the memo emanating from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. In the controversial memo to the National Assembly, he is alleged to have urged them to situate the "correct location" of the proposed Nigerian Maritime University, in Okerenghigho rather than Okerenkoko. The former belongs to the Itsekiris while the latter belongs to Ijaws. ...

Maritime Varsity: 1 million Itsekiri youths to storm NASS

Maritime
Warri-The Isekiri National Youth Council (INYC), has said that it's members in all the states of the country have been mobilized yi converge at the National Assembly in Abuja over the controversy associated with the naming of the National Maritime University in Delta State. INYC, in a statement by it's publicity secretary, Mr. Joseph Uwawah, disclosed that an emergency meeting was held yesterday in warri to review the recent happening as they relate to the naming of the university. According to him, the INYC after the meeting, resolved to stage a one million man march, made up of its members, sympathizers, believers in the rule of law, civil society groups and storm the National Assembly in Abuja to ask the lawmakers to affect the correct/legal name of the university as pronounced by...