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The government has decided to enhance the incentive to children with disabilities to Rs 5,000 and extend the Rs 6,000 transport incentive per annum per student to secondary level for those in difficult areas. A national strategy is also in the making for dropouts, especially from the SC/ ST communities, and on students safety.

Seriake Dickson The Senator representing Bayelsa West, Senator Seriake Dickson addressed the media in the Senate on two contentious issues bothering on the passage of the 3% equity shareholding for host communities, which he said they disagreed with, and the contentious clause 52(3) in the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment bill that was recently passed by the National Assembly. He called for a review of the 3% equity upwards to the 5% proposed by the joint committee on petroleum before Buhari assen...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Senator Biobarakuma Wangagha Degi-Eremienyo has lashed at a former governor and Senator representing Bayelsa West Senatorial district, Seriake Dickson for making inflammatory statements that could lead to a fresh crisis in the Niger Delta. Senator Dickson had warned that the Petroleum Industry Bill which was passed into law by the National Assembly last week could trigger crisis in the Niger Delta region. He argued that the 3% equity for the development of Host Comm...

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Seriake Dickson has warned that chains of injustices metted out to oil producing communities in Nigeria in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) may spark off fresh violence in the Niger Delta region. Dickson now a Senator representing Bayelsa West District in the National Assembly described PIB and the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021 by the parliament as offensive and insensitive to concerned Nigerians. The ex-governor spoke with journalist...

Demand 10 % equity, fault 30% for frontier basins Members of the Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), yesterday, described the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as passed by the National Assembly as “immoral and draconian.” x The group, led by Chief Benjamin Tamaranebi, said if President Muhammadu Buhari signs the bill into law, the Niger Delta people would be deprived of their rights to participation and sustainable development of the...

Finally, the much-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill was passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly, recently. Of the 319 clauses and eight schedules that make up the bill, the ones concerning the host communities and the frontier development of oil have sparked national conversation, threatening to stir up a storm should reservations arising therefrom are not addressed before President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent. For them, giving three per cent, rather than the 10 per cent demanded, to ...

The Deputy Majority leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Peter Akpatason, amongst other issues, explained how the federal lawmakers arrived at the 5% operating expenditure granted to the Host Communities in the PIB. He spoke to Udora Orizu. Excerpts: The National Leader of Pan-Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark has rejected some provisions in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), particularly the 3 and 5 per cent operating expenditure granted to the Host Communities by th...

LEADERS and stakeholders of the South-South region have berated lawmakers from the region, both Senate and House of Representatives, for allegedly failing the people in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, accusing them of displaying nonchalant attitude to an important legislation. There have been outrage in the Niger Delta since the House of Representatives and Senate, which failed to applicably define host communities, recently, voted 3 per cent and five per cent respectively as...

ADVERTISEMENT A coalition of civil society groups has criticised the decision of federal lawmakers to include in the newly-passed Petroleum Industry Bill a clause punishing host communities in the events of pipeline vandalisation. The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa stated their position in a joint statement on Wednesday. After years of stalling, the Senate and House of Repr...

By Solomon Asowata Lagos, July 4, 2021 Mr Wilson Opuwei An oil and gas expert, says the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has demonstrated political will towards passing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. Opuwei, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Dateline Energy Services Limited, said this on Sunday when he spoke with newsmen in Lagos. ” I think we should commend the president, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva and his team, as we...