Tag: Ijaws

Oil Theft:  Ijaw group alleges Navy conniving with ship owners to steal crude 

Aminu Imam
Ijaw Group alleges

The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, (IPDI), has lambasted the Nigerian Navy, saying it is a disappointment, alleging it made no achievements while it held the pipeline surveillance responsibility. The group’s anger follows a recent allegation by Oweizide Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, that the Navy is sabotaging its efforts in the fight against crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region. According to reports, IPDI National Coordinator, Austin Ozobo, in a telephone chat, claimed that rather than make positive achievements, the country bled economically under Navy surveillance, stressing that…

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“Tinubu’s Govt. nightmare for Ijaw people” – Asari Dokubo

Aminu Imam

Niger-Delta leader and former leader agitator for the course of the oil-rich region, Asari Dokubo, has described the President Bola Tinubu-led administration is the worst ever. Asari, in a viral video clip yesterday, said that some Niger-Delta people, particularly the Ijaw ethnic group, are already angry with the present government. The former militant, who was a staunch supporter of Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the electioneering season, lamented that he earlier assured the Ijaw people that the government would perform well. He, however, alleged that the present…

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Rivers: “Caution Wike on Fubara” - Ijaw National Congress urges Tinubu

Aminu Imam

The apex pan-Ijaw socio-cultural organisation, the Ijaw National Congress, (INC), has asked President Bola Tinubu to call the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Nyesom Wike and his loyalists to stop their moves aimed at sacking the Rivers State Governor, Siminialayi Fubara. The INC condemned what it said is an open support by security agencies for the Martins Amaewhule-led faction of the State lawmakers loyal to Wike, whom they gave protection to hold a sitting against a subsisting court order requiring all parties to maintain the status quo and…

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“Stop stocking division against Fubara” – Ijaws warn Wike

Aminu Imam

Pan-Ijaw socio-political organisation, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) has cautioned Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, against stoking division of any sort against Rivers State Governor Simi Fubara under the guise of protecting his ‘structure’. President of INC worldwide, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, in a statement made available in Akure, Ondo State, said the Ijaw nation, was dismayed by the crude attempt by men in official uniform to impeach and inflict mental and physical injuries on Governor Fubara. It said the political structure which Wike referred to should not be…

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