The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria has failed the Niger-Delta region and Bayelsa State with the level of underdevelopment and poverty 67 years after oil was found in the area.Peter Obi made the comment during a town hall meeting of Labour Party’s stakeholders in Yenagoa on Tuesday to present the flag to the gubernatorial candidate of the party.He said a place where oil was first fou...

Yabagi Sani, the National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assigning a Minister of State for Petroleum Resources from the oil-rich Niger Delta area, insisting it is a ‘wrong signal.’Sani spoke while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Thursday.He disclosed that limiting the appointment to a specific state would trigger a sense of entitlement among the Ni...

A Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has sacked 18 aides appointed by the Chairperson of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie.The court held that Onochie acted outside her powers in appointing them.The court barred her from interfering with the functions of the commission’s Managing Director , Dr. Samuel Ogbuku.The declaration was made in a suit by Dr. Mike Oberabor, for himself and on behalf of the Oberabor Oreme-Egbede families of...