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Group Tasks Okowa to Issue Final Verdict on Aladja/Ogbe-Ijoh Dispute

– Salutes Aladja/Ogbe-Ijoh Peace Vanguard, Stakeholders Over Peace Moves The Ijaw People’s Development initiative, IPDI has appealed to the governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa to consolidate on painstaking peace efforts made by the Aladja/Ogbe-Ijoh Peace Vanguard to ensure lasting peace in the area. The group as well expressed her in-depth appreciation for Aladja/Ogbe-Ijoh […]

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IPDI Calls on Military to Evacuate Soldiers From Rivers Communities

Foremost Ijaw group, the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, has called on the Nigerian Military to immediately evacuate the Udouda and Okobe communities in Egene kingdom in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State for its inhabitants to live peacefully. This was contained in a statement by the group’s National President, Comrade Ozobo Austin […]

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Niger Deltans Spit Fire Over Planned Scrapping of Amnesty Programme

The Committee set up by Federal Government’s to appraise the Presidential Amnesty Program has come under heavy backlash and criticism from notable Niger Delta individuals and groups. This is coming on the heels of a leaked secret recommendation made by the Committee that the programme be scrapped this year. NDDC: IYC Thumbs up Forensic Audit, […]

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Surveillance Contract: Lori-Ogbebor a Mere Hypocrite – IPDI

The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, has labeled Chief Rita-Ogbebor, a hypocrite over her calls for the revocation of the surveillance contract awarded to High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. The group also described the Itsekiri chief as well-known enemy of the Delta State and Niger Delta region, adding that she should be ignored […]

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IPDI Demands ₦1.98bn FAAC Allocation, ₦250m Paris Club Fund Accountability From Angele

The Ijaw People’s Development initiative (IPDI) has called on the Chairman of Burutu Local Government Council, Rt Hon Godknows Angele to give account of the ₦1.98billion the Council accrued in the 2019 fiscal year. The group is also asking Angele to account for the ₦250million Paris Club fund received by the council in 2019. Big […]

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Revealed: Tompolo Spent four Years in The Forest, Friends Deserted Him

Niger Delta rights group, the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, has revealed that acquitted former militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, former General Officer Commanding, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, by the Federal High Court in lagos Lagos over fraud allegations had four years of restless nights in the foresand was forsaken […]

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IPDI Urges Ex-agitators, CSOs, Youth Groups to Shun Nationwide Protest

The Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative (IPDI) has called on Niger Delta ex-agitators, civil society organizations (CSOs), and youths to withdraw from the planned nationwide protest. The pro-Ijaw group cited concerns that common enemies are planning to hijack the protest, to cause fresh hostility to blackmails leaders of the region. The move was uncovered following the […]

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NDDC: Group Petitions FG, NASS, Others Over Substantive Board, Rejects Sole Administrator

-Makes case for Deltan Board Chairman The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, has sent a strong worded petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, NSA, Chief of Staff, DSS, Ministry of Justice, Senate President, Speaker House of Representatives, seeking for the immediate appointment of a substantive board to man the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission, […]

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Delta 2023: IPDI Lampoons, Schools Omene on Strength of Ijaws in Delta Politics

– Says Urhobos can’t be governor in Delta till Delta South, North Produce two governors each – Ijaw 3 indigenous LGAs In Delta are equivalent of 6 Urhobo LGAs There has been an outrage in Delta state, especially from the Ijaws following an alleged misguided and misleading comment attributed to Chief Joe Omene, the factional […]

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IPDI Threatens Legal Action Against Angele Over Misappropriated ₦2bn FAAC Allocation

– Charges Burutu people to demand for accountability from Angele The Ijaw People’s Development Initiative (IPDI), has again accused the Chairman of Burutu Local Government Council, Godknows Angele of misappropriating another ₦2,159,937,833.52 billion FAAC allocation accrued to the Council in the 2018 fiscal year. ASUU Gives Fresh Conditions on Schools Reopening According to the group, […]