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GEN NDIOMU TO ASU BEKS: YOU ARE AN IROKO IN MARITIME JOURNALISM

GEN NDIOMU TO ASU BEKS: YOU ARE AN IROKO IN MARITIME JOURNALISM

Maritime, News Feature
Celebrating the Iroko of Nigeria's maritime media as he turns 70! Sir, my family and I join your numerous admirers and well wishers to rejoice and celebrate with you at this auspicious moment in your life. Attaining the age of 70 years is a remarkable feat which must be celebrated with immense gratitude to God Almighty. We thank God Almighty for your life and also for granting you good health as well as protecting you thus far. There is no doubt that you have contributed immensely to the development of journalism and the maritime industry in particular through your very insightful and well researched reports which have contributed in no small measure in educating and drawing awareness to significant developments in the maritime space. Your interest in ensuring sustainable peace and yo...
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IJAW MEDIA FORUM APPEALS TO DONOR AGENCIES TO FUND PAP

IJAW MEDIA FORUM APPEALS TO DONOR AGENCIES TO FUND PAP

News Feature
As the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, gets to the most critical stage of re integration of ex agitators into mainstream society, a group, the Ijaw Media Forum, has urged international donor agencies to assist the PAP in achieving its set objectives. President of Ijaw Media Forum, Elder Asu Beks, made this call during a Live Radio interview in Lagos weekend. The Presidential Amnesty Programme , the brain child of Late President Umaru Yaradua, was introduced on September 16, 2009. The PAP was initiated by the late President at the peak of the agitations by Niger Delta youths on account of marginalization and environmental degradation following decades of oil exploration by the Federal Government. The program was aimed at disarming, demobilization and reintegration of ex agitators...
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Police to recruit ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region

Police to recruit ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region

Law, News Feature
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj Gen Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd) has solicited the support of the Police High Command in the recruitment of ex-agitators into its rank and file as well as officers' Corp. The Interim Administrator made the request when he paid a courtesy visit to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman at the Police Headquarters in Abuja. Gen Ndiomu revealed that the PAP has over the years trained a lot of youths from the Niger Delta region who have the capacity to serve in the Nigerian Police force. The Interim administrator also expressed his gratitude and appreciation to the Police High Command for providing security services at its offices and facilities in Abuja and across the Niger Delta region. In his re...
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