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Olu Of Warri Ends Protest By Itsekiris
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Olu of Warri , Ogiame Atuwatse III has called on his subjects protesting at the premises of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, and the Nigeria Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Commission, NUPRC in Warri to halt the exercise.
The Ologbotsere, Chief Oma Eyewuoma while disclosing this, hailed the protesters for turning up to demand for the common good of Warri kingdom.
He said the monarch secured assurances from governor Sheriff Oborevwori that the issues raised during the protest would be given attention.
Continuing, the Ologbotsere Chief Eyewuoma said the next move would be to recover a dredger procured with funds from the kingdom allegedly in wrong hands.
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“The Ologbotsere of Warri and Chairman, Warri Council of Chiefs, Chief (Engr) Oritsema Oma Eyewuoma, on behalf of the Warri Council of Chiefs and the Itsekiri General Assembly wishes to use this medium to officially notify all Itsekiri sons and daughters worldwide, and members of the general public that the twin 9 days peaceful protest embarked upon by the Itsekiri ethnic nationality from Monday 3rd of September, 2023 to 12th of September, 2023 against the management of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) as it relates to the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) and the demand of all the accrual of the monies of the Itsekiri ethnic nationality and stoppage of further payment of same to any individual or group of persons by the management of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), has been suspended.
“The Executive Governor had reached out to His Majesty to prevail on the peaceful protesters to sheath their swords and go home with a promise that Itsekiri nation’s demands as contained in the earlier letter of demand submitted through the Itsekiri General Assembly to the Managing Director of DESOPADEC, a copy which was delivered to him, will be acted upon expeditiously and no Itsekiri nation’s money accruable from the Commission would henceforth be paid to any individual or group of persons.
” Itsekiri nation’s monies would be kept in a designated account for the collective development of the Itsekiri people and their ancestral homeland.
”As the father of the Itsekiri people, he ( Olu) will continue to consult with the government both at the state and federal level to make sure that the purpose of the protests are achieved for the collective benefit of the Itsekiri people.
“Two out of the three (3) agenda on the table, which are issues surrounding the NUPRC and DESOPADEC have yielded the positive results. The next line of action is to go after the Itsekiri nation’s dredger, called “EREGWA” which was bought with a whooping sum of one billion naira Itsekiri money from DESOPADEC for the reclamation and sand filling of Itsekiri ancestral communities, but has long been converted into private use to the detriment of the Itsekiri people and their Communities without any form of accountability for the funds generated from it usage.”
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Labour Party leader and former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s planned trip to Saint Lucia, describing it as poorly timed and lacking in sensitivity, especially amid Nigeria’s deepening economic and security challenges.
Tinubu is expected to leave Nigeria on Saturday for Saint Lucia and is also scheduled to attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil.
In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Obi expressed dismay over the president’s travel, questioning the state of governance in the country.
Obi argued that Tinubu’s trip highlights a pattern of misplaced priorities by the administration, particularly at a time when citizens are grappling with widespread hunger and insecurity.
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“What I have seen and witnessed in the last two years has left me in shock about poor governance delivery and apparent channelling of energy into politics and satisfaction of the elites, while the masses in our midst are languishing in want,” Obi stated.
He lamented the toll of rising insecurity across Nigeria, pointing out the country’s deteriorating safety situation.
“In the past two years, Nigeria has lost more people to all sorts of criminality than a country that is officially at war.
“Without any twilight, Nigeria ranks among the most insecure places in the world. Nigerians are hungrier, and most people do not know where their next meal will come from,” he wrote.
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Obi said he was stunned when he learned of the President’s travel plans, especially following what he described as a recent holiday in Lagos.
“With such a gory picture of one’s country, you can imagine my bewilderment when I saw a news release from the Presidency announcing that President Bola Tinubu is departing Nigeria today for a visit to Saint Lucia in the Caribbean,” he said.
Quoting Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister, Philip J. Pierre, Obi noted that the visit comprises both official and personal segments.
“According to the Prime Minister’s announcement, ‘two of these days, June 30 and July 1, will be dedicated to an official visit, with the remainder of the trip set aside as a personal vacation,” he said.
Obi noted that he initially found the report hard to believe.
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“I told the person who drew my attention to the Caribbean story that it cannot be true and that the President is just coming back from a holiday in Lagos.
“I didn’t want to believe that anybody in the position of authority, more so the President… would contemplate a leisure trip at this time,” Obi said.
He condemned Tinubu’s failure to visit disaster-stricken areas like Minna in Niger State, where over 200 people reportedly died and hundreds remain missing due to flooding.
“This is a President going for leisure when he couldn’t visit Minna, Niger State where over two hundred lives were lost and over 700 persons still missing in a flood natural disaster,” he said.
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Obi also took issue with Tinubu’s recent trip to Benue State, claiming it was politically motivated rather than compassionate.
“The other state in crisis where over two hundred lives were murdered, the President yielded to public pressure and visited Makurdi… for what turned out to be a political jamboree than condolence as public holiday was declared and children made to line up to receive the President who couldn’t even reach the village, the scene of the brutal attack,” he said.
Drawing comparisons between Nigeria and Saint Lucia, Obi questioned the logic of prioritising a visit to the Caribbean nation over addressing pressing domestic issues.
“Makurdi is 937.4 Km², which is over 59% bigger than St Lucia, which is 617 km², and Minna is 6789 square kilometres, which is ten times bigger than St Lucia. St Lucia, with a population of 180,000, is less than half of Makurdi’s 489,839 and Minna, with 532,000 is almost three times the population of St Lucia,” the former Anambra governor said.
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He concluded his post by stressing the urgent need for leadership that is grounded in empathy and focused on addressing the suffering of ordinary Nigerians.
He said, “I don’t think the situation in this country today calls for leisure for anybody in a position of authority, more so the President, on whose desk the buck stops.
“This regime has repeatedly shown its insensitivity and lack of passion for the populace…”
Obi added, “This very obvious indifference of the federal government to the suffering of the Nigerian poor should urgently be reversed.
“One had expected the President to be asking God for extra hours in a day for the challenges, but what we see is a concentration of efforts in the 2027 election and on satisfying the wealthy while the mass poor continues to multiply in number.”
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World Bank Lists Nigeria Among 39 Nations Facing Rising Poverty, Hunger
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June 28, 2025By
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The World Bank has listed Nigeria among 39 countries where poverty and hunger are deepening as a result of conflict and instability.
In a report released on Friday, the bank said the economies, a mix of low- and middle-income countries, span all global regions. Among them are Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe.
The report, which assesses the economic impact of conflict and fragility in the post-COVID-19 era, revealed that 21 of the 39 countries are experiencing active conflict.
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According to the findings, extreme poverty is rising more rapidly in these countries, taking a severe toll on economic development, worsening hunger, and derailing progress toward key development goals.
Since 2020, the report noted, the average per capita GDP of these economies has declined by 1.8 per cent annually, in contrast to a 2.9 per cent growth rate recorded in other developing countries.
The report partly reads: “This year, 421 million people are struggling on less than $3 a day in economies afflicted by conflict or instability—more than in the rest of the world combined.
“That number is projected to rise to 435 million, or nearly 60% of the world’s extreme poor, by 2030.”

Nigeria’s total public debt rose to N149.39 trillion as of March 31, 2025, according to the latest data released by the Debt Management Office (DMO).
The nation’s public debt represents the indebtedness of the federal and state governments, as well as the Federal Capital Territory.
The Federal Government owes N74.89 trillion, while the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) owe the balance of N3.87 trillion.
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The figure represents about 4. 72 trillion or 3.3 percent increase over the preceding quarter, with a debt stock figure of N144.67 trillion.
The data showed that external debt rose minimally by 0.5 percent between the end of 2024 and the end of March 2025 (N344 billion).
Although the nation’s external borrowing has been quite low since the last quarter of 2024, the Naira depreciation has had a very negative effect on the stock.
Domestic debt stood at N78.76 trillion as of the end of the first quarter compared to N65.65 trillion in March 2024.
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