Briga News Nigeria Renowned Niger Delta group, operating under the aegis of the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, has called on the Federal Government and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to disregard calls for the sack of Dr. Dennis Burutu Otuaro as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Program, PAP. The group via it’s President, Comr. Austin…
Briga News Nigeria The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Brutu Otuaro, has said that President Bola Tinubu’s deliberate effort to reduce the human capital development gap in the Niger Delta is firmly on course. He stressed that this was evident in the over 9,000 scholarship beneficiaries deployed by the PAP to onshore…
Briga News Nigeria The Ijaw Publishers’ Forum (IPF) heartily celebrates by offering our congratulations to a visionary and innovative leader—the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, High Chief Dennis Brutu Otuaro, Ph.D., on the auspicious occasion of his birthday. We give thanks to Almighty God for gifting the Niger Delta region with a visionary, purposeful…
Briga News Nigeria The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Brutu Otuaro, has charged the offshore scholarship beneficiaries of the programme to be deliberate about excellence in their studies. Otuaro said that those selected for the programme have no option than to appreciate the President Bola Tinubu administration’s goodwill by excelling academically to…
Briga News Nigeria A batch of fifty-four offshore post-graduate scholarship beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme has departed Nigeria for the United Kingdom to resume studies in various universities. The students took off from Abuja and arrived in London on Friday. They are among the150 beneficiaries that underwent a pre-departure orientation in August following their…
Briga News Nigeria The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, has condemned what it described as a “provocative and barbaric” call by a so-called sponsored Niger Delta coalition demanding the sack of Dr. Dennis Brutu Otuaro, administrator of the presidential amnesty programme, PAP. In a statement signed by its National President and made available to…
THE PRESIDENT, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. State House, Presidential Villa, Asorock, Abuja, FCT MR. PRESIDENT SIR, RE: URGENT CALL FOR THE IMMEDIATE REVOCATION OF PIPELINE SURVEILLANCE CONTRACT AWARDED TO SEVEN OCEANS OIL AND GAS LTD/ KOJO SAM LOGISTICS LIMITED/LABRADOR SECURITY OUTFIT: A CALL TO DISREGARD AS COMPLAINT MADE…
Briga News Nigeria Four students under the scholarship of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have bagged Distinction in their Masters Degree from universities in the UK. The four with distinction are Nina Orubebe (financial management) Tonbra Tonlagha (international hospitality and tourism), Kemien Egbekun (law) and Simon Douye (construction engineering management). The four students were among sixteen…
Briga News Nigeria IJAW YOUTHS COUNCIL (IYC) AKUGBENE-MEIN CLAN, BOMADI WESTERN ZONE HEADQUARTERS Office of the Chairman PRESS RELEASE AN OPEN APPEAL FOR A JOINT INTERVENTION BY THE NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (NDDC) AND THE DELTA STATE GOVERNMENT TOWARDS THE URGENT COMPLETION OF THE ESANMA–GBAREGOLOR BRIDGE, BOMADI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, DELTA STATE Date: 04 August…
By Prof Benedict Binebai Before the map, there was the river. Before the boundary, there was the community. And before the state, there was the people. The history of the riverine territories of present-day Edo State cannot be fully understood without confronting the competing narratives of Bini political authority and Ijaw riverine occupation. The question…
