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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Mr Philip Gbasin, Executive Director, Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), has advised the Niger Delta Youths to shun all form of vices to attract and sustain development in the region. Gbasin gave the advise in an interview with the Newsmen in Warri on Sunday. He said that almost all the oil companies in the region have relocated because of the unpleasant attitude of the people in the area. “The passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will not automatically create the needed attractions for investors nor translate into the development of the region unless the people embrace positive transformation,’’ he said. He urged the State Governments in the region to deal with these vices, particularly in the area of touting, where people have to pay touts to build or renovate their houses in these areas. He charged leaders and those in authority to wake up to their responsibilities to check excesses of these people in the region. Gb...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Mr Philip Gbasin, Executive Director, Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), has advised the Niger Delta Youths to shun all form of vices to attract and sustain development in the region. Gbasin gave the advise in an interview with the Newsmen in Warri on Sunday. He said that almost all the oil companies in the region have relocated because of the unpleasant attitude of the people in the area. “The passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will not automatically create the needed attractions for investors nor translate into the development of the region unless the people embrace positive transformation,’’ he said. He urged the State Governments in the region to deal with these vices, particularly in the area of touting, where people have to pay touts to build or renovate their houses in these areas. He charged leaders and those in authority to wake up to their responsibilities to check excesses of these people in the region. Gb...

http://ift.tt/2rCfDE2 By Emeka Mamah By Adeadekoya000, Adekunle The Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, Igbo Youth Movement, IYM and the Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, have commended the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for “a successful” sit-at-home protest which paralysed the entire Eastern Region and beyond on May 30, 2017. The ECA no one in doubt of Ndigbo’s preference for freedom as opposed to eternal servitude in Nigeria, while both the IYM and IWA said that the IPOB founder, Nnamdi Kanu was “their leader in whom,” they were well pleased. In their separate reactions over the outcome of the civil disobedience, which paralysed Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Imo States and partially grounded Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Asaba in Delta, as well as Bayelsa State, the three Igbo sociocultural groups further lauded Kanu for directing the sit-at-home in the entire region and beyond stressing that the exercise must be repeated often. The ECA which reacted through its Publicity Secret...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A socio-political cum non-governmental pressure organization which galvanizes public support for positive government policies and programmes especially for good governance and women empowerment across the 19 northern states has called for the immediate confirmation of Aisha Dahiru as Director-General PENCOM. The group recalls President Muhammadu Buhari’s pre-2015 presidential election promise that his government will have zero tolerance for discrimination against women. It acknowledged that in fulfilment of his promise, President Buhari has started the empowerment of women through the appointment of qualified women into sensitive government positions. In a statement issued to newsmen and signed by the group’s National President, Hajia Dr. Faiza Suleiman, it commended President Buhari-led government for appointing Mrs. Dahiru in acting capacity as PENCOM’s DG and urged Nigerians to rally round her because she has rich wealth of experience to move the regulatory b...