Wednesday, October 8Nigeria's Authoritative Maritime News Magazine
Shadow

Tag: Presidential Amnesty Programme

by Asu BeksNo Comments
5000 Itsekiri Graduates Of Novena Varsity Not Part Of Scholarship Beneficiaries- PAP •••We Are Not Owning Fees In Any Institution

5000 Itsekiri Graduates Of Novena Varsity Not Part Of Scholarship Beneficiaries- PAP •••We Are Not Owning Fees In Any Institution

Misc, News Feature
The Presidential Amnesty Programme has said that it is not owing school fees of 5000 students of Itsekiri extraction in Novena University, Ogume, Delta State. The PAP in a statement on Tuesday stated that the agency is not owing fees in Novena or any institution within or outside the country. The agency was reacting to claims by the so-called Office of the Sole Representative of His Royal Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, the Olu of Warri to NNPLC, that the Amnesty Programme is "indebted" to Novena University concerning "all Itsekiri students" who graduated from the institution purportedly under the programme's scholarship scheme. The monarch's agent, Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema, made a curious claim in a statement that the alleged liability made the Olu's palace to announce an in...
Read More
by Asu BeksNo Comments
Dennis Otuaro: Mr President’s Eye in the Niger Delta Region. By ASU BEKS .

Dennis Otuaro: Mr President’s Eye in the Niger Delta Region. By ASU BEKS .

Misc, News Feature
Believe it or not, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, does not joke with the Niger Delta. As a shrewd business man and political strategist ,he appreciates the critical role the Niger Delta region could play in the success or failure of his Renewed Hope Agenda. As a region blessed with abundant Oil and Gas reserves , coupled with hundreds of dozens of restive youths who have continued to speak out over years of environmental degredation on account of years of oil exploration and exploitation by successive governments, President Tinubu, like his predecessors , regard the region as the heart beat of Nigeria. "No one jokes with Nigeria's Niger Delta Region which unarguably is Nigeria's cash cow. For as long as oil and gas accounts for over 90 per cent of Nigeria's annual income, this region w...
Read More
by Asu BeksNo Comments
Tinubu an epitome of Sustainable Peace, Stability, Development In Niger Delta – Otuaro

Tinubu an epitome of Sustainable Peace, Stability, Development In Niger Delta – Otuaro

News Feature
The Administrator, of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has urged stakeholders of the Niger Delta to maintain the prevailing peace in the region and remain resolute in their support for the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Otuaro spoke at a three-day strategic training on leadership, alternative dispute resolution and mediation organised by the Presidential Amnesty Programme in collaboration with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre for some stakeholders of the PAP on Wednesday in Abuja. Otuaro stressed the need for the people of the Niger Delta to consolidate on the region's peace process and stability so that socio-economic growth and development could thrive in the communities as encapsulated in the president's Renewed Hope Agenda. He assured the people...
Read More
by Asu BeksNo Comments
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 youth ...
Read More
by Asu BeksNo Comments
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...
Read More
by Asu BeksNo Comments
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 respon...
Read More