Port Harcourt Mundial

… Say $12bn Required for Clean-Up in 12 Years By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa - Oil pollution in Bayelsa State was on the international focus on Tuesday as the report of the state’s Oil and Environmental Commission (BSOEC) was launched at the House of Lords in London. The 211-page report titled: “An Environmental Genocide: Counting the Human Cost of Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria,” is a detailed documentation of the over 60 years of oil exploration and pollution in the state where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria by Shell. The BSOEC was established in March 2019 by the immediate past Senator Seriake Dickson administration. It had as chair a former Anglican Archbishop of York and member of the House of Lords, Dr. John Sentamu, alongside former president of Ghana, John Kufuor and another member of the House of Lords, Baroness Valerie Amos, as honorary commissioners. Baroness Amos, in her remarks, said the pollution of Bayelsa by oil multinationals was scandalous and shameful, ca...

By Emmanuel Sunday: After two days of siege by men of the Nigeria Army in Rundele Community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, over alleged shooting of two soldiers by leader of a disbanded local security, Rundele Security Peace and Advisory Committee (RUSPAC), normalcy has now returned to the area. The soldiers, who we learnt were deployed to guard crude oil pipelines in the area, were shot after an altercation over illegal oil bunkering with the RUSPAC commander, Mr. Oguchika Ajuru, in the community bush. A community source who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that though the soldiers did not die, the incident created panic in the community leading to most villagers fleeing their homes for safety. Read more: Normalcy Returns to Rivers Community 2 Days After Military Siege – PH Mundial – Port Harcourt Online Newspaper

By Emmanuel Sunday: Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Port Harcourt Constituency 2 seat in the House of Representatives, Sir Collyns Owhondah, has dumped his party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Owhondah said he has also dropped his interest in participating in the National Assembly supplementary election scheduled for Saturday, April 15. The former APC chieftain in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, noted that the APC in Rivers State has never been serious for any elections in the state and had no strategy in place for winning the polls, but waits to fail and blame INEC and security agencies for their woes. He advised the APC governorship candidate in the just concluded 2023 elections in the state, Pastor Tonye Cole to stop being deceived by those urging him to challenge the outcome of the election at the tribunal, adding that they will not support him financially. Read more: https://phmundial.c...

By Kola Oredipe “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” This quote from an American science-fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein aptly describes the recent development in Bayelsa State. In Bayelsa State, a peaceful election had looked impossible for many years. But in just three years of sustained campaign for peace, love and unity by the Prosperity Government, the state has, for the first time in a long while, witnessed a general election with no bloodshed! The prophets of doom were disappointed as the drum beats of wars were not heard anywhere near or around Bayelsa State in the just concluded 2023 general election. They didn't know that it was a new beginning in the state. Alas, political violence even in communities hitherto known with such incidents has been tamed! This is a big relief to the people in some communities who used to live in fears during elections. Great to cheer that in the last election across the eight local government areas of the st...