Port Harcourt Mundial

… CODE Raises Alarm over Oil Spill in Akpajo Community By Paul Williams Non-governmental organization, Connected Development (CODE), community-based organizations and media stakeholders in Rivers State have called on the contractor handling the Ahoada East/ Eleme section of the East-West Road project to account for the N506 billion funds approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for reconstruction of the road. This followed months of apparent non-implementation of reconstruction or rehabilitation activities for the flood-damaged road, with a resultant heavy financial and physical toll on commuters and commercial transport operators conveying goods and passengers between Rivers and Bayelsa states. The 2022 flooding in the Niger Delta had washed away portions of the road, halting transport activities and forcing the FEC on November 2, 2022 to approve the sum of N506 billion for the reconstruction of the road and to mitigate the negative impact of the flooding in the area. Seve...

As allegations of corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), said to be "characterized by inefficiency, misappropriation, mismanagement, and shady award of contracts," continue to cause outrage and frustration in the region, a Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Amazons, has lashed out at ex militant leaders, "such as Boyloaf, High Chief Egberipapa and others, who are always in a hurry to visit the commission to pass a vote of confidence in a bid to curry favour." The group frowned at the thought that these ex-leaders "bother less in the face of distortions and absence of evidence on ground to justify trillions of naira received to address the backward and awkward state of infrastructure in the region. Spokesman for the group, Mr Minabelem Orukari who made this assertion while speaking to newsmen recalled that in 2019, ex warlords, Boyloaf, High Chief Egberipapa and other ex-militant had visited the corporate office of the commission in Port Ha...

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa High Chief Seiyefa Koroye of Toru-Orua has been elected the new Pere of Tarakiri Kingdom in Bayelsa State. The new Pere was elected on the second ballot, at Ebedbiri Secondary School on Saturday, July 29, 2023. The Electoral Committee chairman, High Chief Ayakeme Whiskey, while declaring the results of the election said total accredited delegates were 94, drawn from 13 communities of Tarakiri Clan, adding that the winner must secure 50% of total votes cast in line with sub-section 4 of the electoral guidelines. He said that High Chief Seiyefa Koroye scored 45 votes, His Royal Highness Famous Eseduwo, the Amananaowei of Angalabiri scored 28 votes, High Chief Keme Prefa polled 20 votes, while the regeant, High chief Fidelis Agbiki abstained from voting. Also speaking, the deputy Speaker Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Michael Ogbere described the election as a friendly contest between two brothers while adding that it was a peaceful and credible process. The ...