When Goodluck Jonathan, a son of the Niger Delta, ascended to the presidency in 2010, there was a glimmer of hope that the region might finally see the benefits of its oil wealth.

Niger Delta youths under the auspices of Niger Delta Youth Congress, NDYC, has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to remove the six states in the oil rich region from the map of Biafra.

Now, he added, Niger Delta states as well as government agencies and even non-governmental organisations should step in and grow the region and keep it safe for residents.

A group, the Niger Delta Congress, has called on youths in the region to protect their states and communities amid rising violence and “gang killings” in the area.

The Niger Delta Peoples Movement (NDPM) has called on the federal government to do more than it is currently doing to bring development to the area which it said despite being the goose that lays ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has said that the era of duplicating projects in states in the region was over. Its Interim Administrator of NDDC, Efiong Akwa said this in Akure, the ...

It states that: “Notwithstanding section 7 or any other section of this Act, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited shall pay 3% of its total annual budget to the Niger Delta Development ...

President Bola Tinubu has appealed to the people of the Niger Delta to be patient on the infrastructural development of the region. He stated on Tuesday in Asaba at the 6th Meeting of the National ...

Column - For several decades after the discovery of crude oil in the Niger-Delta the area was rightly seen as the underdog region of the Nigerian state.

When Goodluck Jonathan, a son of the Niger Delta, ascended to the presidency in 2010, there was a glimmer of hope that the region might finally see the benefits of its oil wealth.