NIGER DELTA REGION – Shipping World News Magazine

Jan242024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

APC Chieftain Calls for Relocation of NNPCL, NIMASA, NPA to Niger Delta

News Feature

Yekini Nabena, a chieftain of the APC and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary, has advocated for the relocation of the NNPCL, NIMASA, NPA to the Niger Delta region. Additionally, he proposed relocating the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, steel development, trade, and investment to Benue, Kogi, and Kano States, where abundant raw materials and natural resources are present. Nabena’s call comes amid controversy surrounding the purported move to relocate part of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to Lagos State for increased efficiency. The APC chieftain said: “If efficiency of these agencies is the main reason for plan to relocate them to Lagos State, we from the Niger Delta are also asking that the NNP...

Nov292023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PAP: Kuku Urges Ndiomu To Revive, Complete Vocational Centers In Niger Delta

News Feature

Kingsley Kuku, former Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd) to revive and complete all Vocational Training Centers in the Niger Delta region. Kuku who also served as Chairman of the PAP under the Jonathan administration, made particular reference to the vandalized Vocational Training Center in Kaiama, Kolokuma Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, carried out by hoodlums in 2019. Making the passionate plea at the Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Wednesday while he paid a courtesy visit to the Interim Administrator, Kuku regretted that the facility will undoubtedly cost billions of naira to revive. “Bring back the cent...

Mar162023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Breaking News: 65billion Social Intervention Program Coming for Niger Delta Youths…

News Feature

3000 ex Agitators to benefit from NNPC Surveillance Contract. A mouth watering N65b Social Intervention Program aimed at improving the lot of Niger Delta Youths may be rolled out soon by the Presidential Amnesty Programme. A usually dependable source at the Presidency who unveiled the mouth watering package exclusively to Shipping World magazine said the proposed intervention may come by way of an Education Trust Fund and a Youth Cooperative scheme targeted at indigent youths from the Niger Delta region. Shipping World was reliably informed that funding for the Social Intervention Scheme may come from the Federal Government, as well as local and intervention donor agencies . A source at the Presidential Amnesty Programme confided in our correspondent that about N2bilion has alread...

Jan32022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Govt Donates Land For Proposed Anglican University

Education, Religion

Bayelsa State Government has pledged to provide land for the proposed establishment of an Anglican university in the state. Governor Douye Diri made the pledge in response to a request by the Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba, who led other bishops of the Diocese of Niger Delta West on a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa, on Sunday. Describing Anglican schools as strong institutions that contributed in producing responsible members of society, Senator Diri stated that hosting an Anglican university would positively impact on the state and the Niger Delta region. He said the state was eager to have its first private university and that the government would support such initiatives as it would accord the people more access to ed...

Dec232021 by Asu BeksNo Comments

AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, GCFR, FORMER PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA By Chief (Dr.) E. K. Clark, OFR, CON

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Your Excellency, MY DISAPPOINTMENT OVER YOUR UNPROVOKED OUTBURST AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE NIGER DELTA REGION Let me begin by thanking you for finding time to stop by at my Abuja residence on Monday, 13th December, 2021, to check on my wellbeing and state of health; a visit that also afforded us the opportunity to discuss matters pertaining to the state of our nation which, unfortunately, continues to drift to very disturbing levels. I am indeed very grateful. Your Excellency, in the course of our discuss, which was cordial, you did not mention, neither did you show any form of distraught or anger with the Niger Delta Region. Your Excellency will recall that a summit was organised by a group, Global Peace Foundation, on Monday, 13th December, 2021, the same day you came to ...