“We sit on top of water in the Niger Delta, yet we do not have water to drink.”
National Conference delegate, Tilley-Gyado, offers recipe for checking herdsmen, farmers’ clashes
A delegate to the ongoing National Conference, Jack Tilley-Gyado, has called for the development of grazing areas to checkmate clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the country.
We won’t wait for oil to be exhausted before exploiting resources in other parts of the Country – Victor Attah, Confab Committee Co-chair
In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, the Co-Chairman of the National Conference Committee on Devolution of Power and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Victor Attah, speaks on how decisions were reached during Committee’s stormy sessions.
National Conference disowns delegate plotting tenure elongation for Jonathan
The National Conference has disowned a South-South delegate, Okon Osung, who has in the past few days been plotting the elongation of the tenures of President Goodluck Jonathan and other political office holders in Nigeria by 18 months.
National Conference Committee rejects state police
The committee used a voice vote to arrive at a decision.
National Conference denies barring journalists from covering its committees
The secretary of the National Conference says only one committee stopped journalists from covering its deliberations. The leadership of the National Conference on Wednesday said it never issued any directive for journalists to be barred from covering any of its Committee sittings. Journalists accredited to cover the Conference proceedings were on Tuesday prevented from accessing…
Delegates support power devolution, disagree on resource control
“The day oil will be discovered in Lake Chad, this opposition to resource control will change.”