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Insecurity: FG intensifies peace efforts in Niger Delta
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As Presidential Amnesty Boss visits Gbaramatu Kingdom
The Federal Government has intensified peace efforts in the Niger Delta as the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col Milland Dikio, visited Gbaramatu on Monday as part of his ‘back to the region tour.’
The Interim Administrator, Col Dikio, visited the Pere of Gbaramatu, His Royal Majesty Ogboro Gbaraun II Aketekpe, and other key stakeholders of the kingdom in the company of the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Rt.Hon. Abraham Ingobere and top officials of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
Okowa congratulates Tompolo at 50
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated Niger Delta activist and ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo as he clocks 50 years.
Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Monday in Asaba, said that Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, was an illustrious son of Niger Delta, who had contributed immensely to the peace and development of the region.
He said that Ekpemupolo’s crave for the development of Niger Delta compelled him to embrace the Presidential Amnesty offered by the Federal Government to armed agitators in the region in 2009, thereby ending the near-intractabl
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Okowa felicitates with Tompolo at 50
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated Niger Delta activist and ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo as he clocks 50 years.
Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, on Monday in Asaba, said that Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo his an illustrious son of Niger Delta, who had contributed immensely to the peace and development of the region.
He said that Ekpemupolo’s crave for the development of Niger Delta compelled him to embrace the Presidential Amnesty offered by the Federal Government to armed agitators in the region in 2009, thereby ending the near-intractable militancy in the area.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has eulogised ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, saying he saved the Niger Delta region from militancy and restored peace in the oil-rich region. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Monday, Okowa described Ekpemupolo as an illustrious son of Niger Delta, who […]
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