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The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has declared seven days of mourning in Ijaw land following the deaths of about 10 Ijaw sons and daughters in two road accidents that occurred on June 11.
“It was indeed a Black Sunday in the entire Ijaw nation.”
Like some other regions in the country, the Niger Delta people, feeling marginalised and still calling for resource control, have put forward a number of demands on the government of President Bola Tinubu.
Two major issues have been topical in the South-South geopolitical zone, otherwise known as the Niger Delta - the zoning of the senate president in the 10th National Assembly to the region by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the discordant tunes from the recently reconstituted Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
History was made in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday, April 29, 2023 following the unveiling of the13th President of the Association o