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OVIETEME GEORGE/TANTITA VETERANS AWARD INITIATIVEbyALAOWEI EKIYE, our Features WriterIt is a popular biblical saying tha...
07/03/2026

OVIETEME GEORGE/TANTITA VETERANS AWARD INITIATIVE
by
ALAOWEI EKIYE, our Features Writer
It is a popular biblical saying that the labourer is worthy of his wages. In same irreathe, honour should be given to whom honour is due.
Indeed, it is proper to honour persons who have significantly contributed through their careers or professions to state and national development while they are alive and kicking, for them to feel the impact of the recognition and deserving award. This, no doubt, would enable them savour the recognition of society’s appreciation of their services while alive.
The crux of the matter is the need to honour the living. The need to reward the living for meritorious service certainly informed Ovieteme to take the initative to organize a programme to celebrate veteran journalists, and of course, in their life time. Ninety seven honourees!
So, history was made a little over three weeks ago when Ovieteme George, international award winning ARISE TV reporter, unfolded his master stroke, in conjunction with Tantita Security Services Nig. Ltd, beaming in the process, deep and heartfelt smiles on the faces of long forgotten veterans in Bayelsa State.
Saturday 14th of February, 2026, Valentine’s Day was set aside for the celebration of this epoch-making event in celebration of these veterans. Icons of the pen profession who where the best in their time and now veterans converged with enthusiasm at the Sampson Siasia Sports Stadium in Yenagoa. Ninety seven of them were honoured in recognition of their contributions to the upliftment, growth and development of the journalism profession in particular and to the state and Nigeria in general. It is gratifying to note that Bayelsa State produced that number of veterans in the noble pen profession.
The lettering on the plaque reads: “An awards presented with profound gratitude in recognition of meritorious service to state and nation through creative presentations, reportage and story telling, for the ultimate good of improving society”. It was a day set aside to appreciate creativity and excellence.
Preceding the day of presentation, bill boards were erected and mounted at strategic locations in the state capital. Jingles were ran on radio. Television and the social media went agog in the dissemination of the information about the upcoming event thereby giving the event adequate publicity. No wonder, the response was impressive. By 8.00am on the said date the programme was well underway. The Sampson Siasia Sports Complex, Yenagoa, venue for the event came alive with well spaced-out and well-timed activities.
The beneficiaries, cutting across both Print and Electronic Media, as well as Publishers, including former General Managers of the State-owned Media Houses were in attendance. It should be noted that some of the recipients started their career in the old Rivers State but transfered their services when Bayelsa State was created in October 1996. They all came in their numbers.
The award came in two categories. Number one category with majority of the recipients who are yet to clock eighty (80) years falling into the first category while five (5) of them who were over eighty (80) years made the second category. The awardees were treated to novelty football matches as a prelude to the event proper.
Two club sides, studded with stars of the legends of the round leather game locked horns with each other in an epic battle which in the first match did not produce a winner. It ended goalless as if they did not play to win. The pace of the game was slow, dictated by the composition of the players, having heavy and overweight players with protruding tummies which worked against their mobility.
The second game, however, was different. Both teams fielded much younger, energetic and determined players so the tempo of the game was high and both sides were desirous to win. No wonder the second match produced a goal. It was quite entertaining as guests and veterans were on the edge on their seats.
The programme did not end with the presentation of the awards, it also comprised costly plaques, a jersey T-shirt and sumptuous lunch pack to go with. Ovieteme George actually went a step further to put broad smiles on the faces of the recipients when three days after the programme, their phones buzzed with message alerts from their banks confirming transaction to the effect that one million (N1,000,000.00) or five Million (N5,000.000.00) naira, depending on the category, has been deposited to their accounts.
That date and the events have come and gone and whatever that happened is now history but the programme left its foot prints on the sands of time, leaving an indelible mark on the practice of journalism and recognition of journalists in the country. For one, history was made, an unbeatable history, confirmed in certain quarters, like the Vice President Zone F, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade Dokubo Obaka asserted: “Indeed history has been made here. One that will never be forgotten in the annals of the Nigeria Union of Journalists”.
Indeed, history was made. The day’s event was unprecedented, like being the first of its kind to have that number of journalists honoured in one day and the generous financial package that went with it.
Again, Comrade Obaka: “For what has happened here, it is going to be difficult for the various councils across the country and even for the National Secretariat to…” He thus adviced other councils to borrow a leaf from what has happened in the Bayelsa State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ).
According to Ovieteme George, his motive was to “honour the living. It makes sense to honour the living and not the dead”. This is instructive.
Chief Hestin Pondi, Managing Director, Tantita Security Services Nig. Ltd, represented by the Administrative Manager, Miss Daisy Jaja, commended Ovieteme and the company over the laudable initiative to celebrate the living in a system were emphasis is on celebrating the dead.
Indeed, whereas it has become our culture and tradition to honour the dead by giving the dead more attention, Ovieteme has changed the narrative in a most dramatic way. And he did followed through by expending fabulous resources for the living.
In his words: “I keyed into this objective to redirect the focus of expensive and extravagant attention for the dead to the living”. This lofty idea and its achievement is life changing.
Still on the advocacy of honouring the living, it would be recalled that on the commencement of the programme, Mr. Ebi Avi, the master of ceremony, did well to remember some of the fallen veteran journalists in the State. And when he spoke, Ovieteme George also remembered some of the veterans who had passed on. I remembered him mention Comish Ekiye, Brighten Sorgwe, Isaac Ombe and a host of others.
The ovation for Ovieteme, his supportive wife Favour, and Tantita was very loud and came from all quarters. The social media came strong after the ceremony, especially after the banks have communicated to them the expected messages. Recipients and non-recipient’s alike sent messages of appreciation and blessings to the organisers for the thoughtful award ceremony.
In advance, presiding Pastor Charismatic Renaissance International Church, Apostle David Wale Feso, who did the first set of presentation of the awards commended Ovieteme George for packaging the programme and gave kudos to the sponsors. “People”, he said, “ought to be rewarded on retirement after service and good a thing this award is coming in their life time.”
Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Bayelsa State branch, Comrade Tonye Yemoleigha expressed profound gratitude to the organizers, calling on well-meaning public spirited individuals to collaborate with organizations to support such efforts.
The Bayelsa State Council of the NUJ expressed their gratitude this wayi: “It is a novel idea and leadership of the Council is very much appreciative and pray that you Ovieteme too would be honoured sometime in the foreseeable future”.
We in EnvironmentWatch also commend Ovieteme and Tantita for this laudable and well executed project. We wish them the best in their future endeaours.
Highlight of the occasion was the presentation of the book: “Redefining Nigeria: Essays on State, Nation, Leadership and Democracy”, written by Deacon Braeyi Ekiye, veteran Journalist and prolific writer, to the organisers of the programme. While presenting the book, Deacon Ekiye said that its central message dwelt on, among other issues, the compelling need for Nigeria to be restructured in line with the practice of True Fiscal Federalism, where devolution of powers were clearly spelt out between the federal government and federating units. He also called for the abrogation of archaic, obnoxious and rights-decapitating petroleum and land laws, which he said, have greatly hampered the right to Niger Deltans full ownership and control of oil and gas resources domiciled in their lands.
Deacon Ekiye noted that only a redemptive leadership rooted in selflessness, vision, pragmatism and institutional accountability can save Nigeria from the present normalized dysfunctional state of affairs in the country.
He therefore called on the President Tinubu administration to have the political will and courage to correct the serious defects in Nigeria’s democratic governance system for the peace, security, unity and accelerated progress of the country.
Certainly, the ceremony, in recognition of meritorious services by veteran journalists to state and nation building exhumed the finer, courageous, fearless and intellectual attributes of our foremost Nigerian journalist, and foundational nationalist, who is proudly a son of Bayelsa State, Ernest Sese Ikoli. Ikoli must be thumbs up for Ovieteme, Tantita and recipients of the awards for standing strong and unshakable in defence of a free, safe and independent press.
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Date: Thursday, 5th March, 2026.

TIME FOR FAR-REACHING REFORMS IN THE UNITED NATIONS by Braeyi EkiyeRecently, the United Nations celebrated the 80th Anni...
08/08/2025

TIME FOR FAR-REACHING REFORMS IN THE UNITED NATIONS
by Braeyi Ekiye

Recently, the United Nations celebrated the 80th Anniversary of the end of the 2nd World War.
For two weeks in the summer of 1945, from July 17 to August 2, President Harry Truman of the United States of America, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) met at Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine. These three greats of WWII at the meeting plotted the fate of the world. They had earlier met at Tehran, Iran in November 1943, all in a bid to finding a lasting solution to the raging World War II which began on September 1, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland.
The world, in disbelief, pondered over the huge devastation of Japan occasioned by the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed with the second on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Japan, totally humiliated and destroyed, surrendered on August 14th, 1945.
The use of nuclear bomb on Japan abruptly ended World War II. Erudite writer, Turner Catledge, in his biographical reflections of then US President, Harry Truman in the book: “Portraits of Power” at page 97, captured the end of the war this way: “The end of the war came with a suddenness for which neither the government (America) nor the citizens was prepared”. That was the impact of the massive destruction and the waste the atomic bomb unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dramatic human and environmental destruction was in great proportions, with bodies mutilated and dissolved like salt in water.
President Truman in reply to the US Secretary of War, Henry Simson, seeking the use of the atomic bomb in Japan had replied in these terse words: “Reply to your 41011. Suggestions approved. Release when ready but not sooner than August 2”, with his signature appended.
Thus, on August 6, 1945, Hiroshima had the first unpalatable taste of the atomic bomb followed with the second over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
President Truman, himself totally overwhelmed by the over-reaching effects of the “Atomic bomb” dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bemoaned the colossal destruction and waste of major cities and industrial complexes in Japan. I believe that Truman was utterly devastated by the use of a weapon of mass destruction with its consequent loss of lives and property. Reflecting on the waste and the senseless use of the Atomic bomb, Truman had a cautionary word for the world: “Let us not fail to grasp this supreme chance to establish a worldwide rule of ‘reason’, to create an enduring peace under the guidance of God”.
Also reflecting on the atomic bomb that brought Japan on her knees, Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, vividly captured his nation’s plight in regret: “The ultimate result of the wartime destruction, is that, major cities were laid waste and more than 80 percent of the manufacturing plants were destroyed under incessant bombing”.
Today, the world is witnessing a greater threat – World War III. It is, therefore, incumbent on world leaders to be circumspect in matters affecting threats to peace and security in the world. A third world war would be catastrophic viewed against the backdrop of the modern and highly sophisticated arsenals including nuclear weapons being primed for use in settling scores. This approach is animalistic, crude in every sense of the word, in this time and age of our civilization.
We are all abreast with the holocaust: the genocide perpetrated on European Jews during World War II. The historical facts of N**i Germany and its collaborators who systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe is still fresh in our minds. The wounds are yet to be healed completely even as these historical facts are deep-etched in the hearts of the Jews and humanity. The conscience, the soul of the world, is at present restless and troubled with the ongoing drum beats of war across the globe. That, the world, especially her leaders have forgotten so soon the consequences of the 1941-1945 holocaust is unfortunate.
The world, particularly the self-anointed world powers; America, Russia, Germany, France, China and United Kingdom, like the mole rat, are hard of hearing. They are too busy beating the drums of war and manufacturing, at breakneck speed, weapons of mass destruction, and testing their might and destroying smaller and vulnerable countries as a circus show of power and might.
The world looks on while Ukraine is being viciously attacked by Russia and destroyed; the Israeli and Palestine war has been ongoing for almost two years, with Israel having the upper hand in the war front. While the Palestinians are suffocating under Israeli incessant attacks, especially on Gaza, with millions rendered homeless, hunger stricken, malnourished children, youths and adults begging for food for survival, the world looks on unperturbed. It piques the mind that America, a world power and a friend and ally of Israel is unable to prevail on Israel to stop this war which is a threat to world peace and security.
Meanwhile, the European Union is also helpless, frantically serving empty messages of condemnation against Israel on the current mayhem being visited on the Palestinians, especially Gaza.
The tension between Israel and Iran is yet to die down. Israel views Iran as an existential threat on account of Tehran’s rhetoric and their suspicion that the country is enriching uranium to produce nuclear weapons. In addition, Israel accuses Iran of financing Palestinian groups such as Hamas--the bone of contention, in furtherance of its terrorist adventures.
Needless to say that other geo-political zones across the world are also in turmoil, boiling over with war drums and trumpets. Such areas include Africa (Ethiopia-Eretria, Sudan, Somalia, DRC Congo and the Sahel region), Asia (India-Pakistan and recently, Thailand-Cambodia clashes) and in Middle Eastern countries like Syria and Yemen.
According to records, the United Nations (UN) was established at the end of World War II, primarily to prevent future conflicts and maintain international peace and security. The framers of the articles of association of the United Nations were touched by the devastation and loss of lives recorded by the two world wars within a single generation.
It is most unfortunate that the good intentions of the founders of the United Nations are to be realized since after its formation on 25th June, 1945, when representatives of 50 nation states gathered in the San Francisco Opera House, in New York, USA, to unanimously pass the United Nations (UN) Charter. The next day, in the auditorium of the Veterans Memorial Hall, the delegates signed the UN Charter. Sixty years after, the United Nations is yet to stand sure on its mandate of preventing future wars and maintaining international peace and security in the world.
To my mind there is no better organization than the United Nations in restoring world peace and order. I think that the lack of inclusivity and water-tight reservation of veto powers to the only known six Security Council members of the Union, to wit: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, has to a great extent, made the Union a toothless bull dog in fostering cooperation among member states. The United Nations therefore, needs urgent reforms that would enable its members have a true sense of belonging in the Union and work collectively as co-equals in pursuance of the organisation’s goal of international co-operation and the restoration of world peace and security. What the United Nations represent today is like the ‘Animal Farm’, where some animals are more equal than others. This abuse of power by the six Security Council members in the use of veto powers and the impunity enjoyed in the world assembly is not working for the good of the organization and the world. It stands Truth on the head and encourages the corruption of the Charter itself, giving rise to unabated conflicts, crisis and wars among nation states. After all, all men are created equal by God. And that coincidentally, is the foundational principle of the American Creed, which originates from the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This Creed signifies that all individuals are entitled to the same fundamental rights and opportunities, regardless of their background. This affirmation should be translated in the workings and administration of the United Nations if it is to be taken seriously.
For the sake of emphasis, America’s war-time president, Harry Truman, has warned in 1945, when in his appeal to the world, stated thus: “Let us not fail to grasp this supreme chance to establish a worldwide rule of reason, to create an enduring peace under the guidance of God”.
There is no doubt that the United Nations is under the guidance of God, irrespective of which religion member states worship. It therefore behooves the Security Council members to come together, leaving their ego and superiority clout behind, and embrace the equality of states and work sincerely, purposefully and decisively in tandem with the mandate of the United Nations for the restoration of peace and security in the world.
It is clear that the United Nations is yet to pay enough and sincere attention to the underlying factors that pummel the conflicts, turmoil and wars across the globe. The civilized world needs a transparent solution-based approach by the world body at conflict resolution. This, therefore, calls for far-reaching reforms in the Union that would not only give a true sense of belonging to all member states on equal footing but a union that is totally committed to a new world order and security and amity in the globe.
Equity and Justice should be the pillars that should be firmly erected on the foundation of the new United Nations of our dream.

Braeyi Collins Ekiye
Publisher, EnvironmentWatch and CEO, BRAEBI TV Services Ltd.

SEN. DICKSON’S VOCAL VOICE ON OIL THEFT IN THE NIGER DELTABy Braeyi EkiyeStanding up for justice and vocally too, is abo...
04/04/2024

SEN. DICKSON’S VOCAL VOICE ON OIL THEFT IN THE NIGER DELTA
By Braeyi Ekiye

Standing up for justice and vocally too, is about standing up for each other. It is our duty to speak for the nation’s lingering ills to be corrected, particularly when others cannot speak up. That is the critical power of the voice for the reconstruction of the Nigerian State to attain the desired real nationhood.
‘Contriman Governor’, and now a distinguished Senator representing Bayelsa West, Barrister Seriake Dickson recently stood up to be counted with an informed vocal voice on a serious national issue; oil theft and its debilitating consequences on Nigeria’s economy and security.
Like the White Shark (Oforoma-pepe), known for his fearlessness and courage, Dickson spoke candidly on the on-going large-scale crude oil thefts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
Answering questions from an interview programme at Channels Television recently, Senator Dickson pointedly accused some very important personalities from Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for being behind oil theft in the Niger Delta.
Hear the Senator:” The Official system and oil companies are beneficiaries of oil theft in the Niger Delta”. Senator Dickson bemoaned the absence of national values which he said, makes people to use the nation’s resources for selfish gains.
He reiterated during the Channels TV interview that: “People from Abuja and Lagos are the masterminds and the official system is not ignorant and not innocent. The official security system, the official oil system, the official federal system, all of it in its entirety. It’s a powerful system,” he stated.
Senator Dickson wondered why a country like Nigeria that has been producing oil, exporting oil for the past 70 years was unable to have scientific way of metering, recording what leaves, what is pumped, what is sold and what is not sold? He concluded that it was a deliberate attempt at bleeding the country of her financial and economic wealth through illegal bunkering, superintended by local, national and international oil theft collaborators.
Senator Dickson’s unambiguous stand on oil theft in the Niger Delta further lends credence to Asari Dokubo’s straight and penetrating shot at the military, of its complicity in oil theft in June 2023. Asari has said then, and I quote: “The Army and Navy were behind oil theft. They intimidate the Civil Defence, who are by law expected to protect oil installations. They tap directly from the oil head”, he said.
What has been happening, Dokubo said, in the last eight years, is unprecedented anywhere in the world. Dokubo categorically alleged that officers and men of the Army and Navy deployed to protect oil installations, instead, ‘set up facilities they call local refineries,’ referring to the popular and cheaper kpo-fire fuel.
It is instructive that the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), had in November 6th, 2023, through its Executive Secretary, Ogbonnaya Orji, has said that oil theft was an emergency that posed serious threat to oil exploration and exploitation with huge negative consequences on economic growth, business projects and profit earnings by oil companies.
Orji stated that as a result of NEITI being a member of the “Special Investigative Panel on Oil Theft and Losses”, the organisation was aware that: “Oil theft is perpetrated mainly through pipeline clamping, illegal connections and major pipeline exploitation of abandoned oil well heads, pipeline breakages and vandalism of key national assets to illegally siphon crude into waiting vessels stationed in strategic terminals”.
NEITI maintained that it was a matter of fact that many members of the pipeline’s association were directly and indirectly involved in providing the skills and knowledge required to carry out oil theft.
Orji therefore, condemned the association for failing to put in place stringent regulations and appropriate sanctions to check involvement of their members.
It would also be recalled that, Peter Obi, the presidential flag-bearer of Nigeria’s Labour Party (LP), had accused ‘people in government’ for massive rampant oil theft in late October, 2022.
According to Obi: “It was impossible for an ordinary Nigerian to steal oil without the cooperation of government.” His panacea for turning around this ugly situation for the better was that of an ”aggressive and progressive production of local refining of our crude oil”.
In my previous articles on oil theft and its devastating consequences on the economy and security of the country, published widely over the years, I have maintained that Nigeria yet needs a ‘Leader’ and not a ‘Ruler‘, with the courage of conviction and political will to drive the process of good governance in the Nigerian State to find lasting solution to this lingering malady and other critical issues that have defied solution.
While being hopeful that President Tinubu’s leadership would spring a surprise to douse the fears, the apprehensions of critical Nigerian minds, like Senator Dickson, Ogbonnaya, Dokubo and many others, there is the compelling need for this administration to seriously interrogate this malignant ulcer on the nation’s oil industry. Therefore, there is also the need to critically examine NEITI’s unsolicited solutions to the problems of oil theft that have held Nigeria’s economy prostrate and her developmental framework for accelerated growth in all facets stunted.
The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in a report titled: “Nigeria’s Battle With Crude Oil Theft: A Total of 4,145 Cases Since May 2023,” published by ARISE NEWS on November 23rd, 2023, revealed a staggering number of highlights of the severity of the issue at hand.
Also, in its weekly: “Energy & You” series aired on the NTA News Network, the NNPCL noted in episode 7 that 344 crude oil theft incidents were recorded between January and April 2023. Meanwhile, by Episode 8 of the weekly NTA television series, NNPCL shared reports of crude oil theft incidents. A summation of crude oil theft incidents recorded between episode 8 (May 2023) and episode 30 (October 2023), revealed that a total of 4,145 crude oil theft incidents were recorded between May 2023 and the second week of October 2023. According to NNPCL records, some of the more active hotspots for crude oil theft in the Niger Delta include; Ohaji-Egbema, Oguta (Imo), Ogbia, Imiringi (Bayelsa), Obodo-Omadino, Ughelli (Delta), and Egorobiri creek, Gokana, Iba community, Emuoha, Rumuji, Degema (Rivers).
Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser, had revealed in August 2023, that: “the country was losing 400,000 barrels of oil per day to crude oil thieves”. This led to commentators insisting that the persistence of crude oil theft in Nigeria lays bare the deep-rooted issues of corruption and severity of vulnerabilities in the country. That, Nigeria lost more than ₦4.3 trillion naira to oil theft in five years, stolen in 7,143 pipeline vandalism cases is not news. NEITI revealed this startling loss at the Nigeria Interventional Security Conference in Abuja, with the theme: “Bolstering Regulations, Technology and Security for Growth”, in November 2023. The conference was organised by the Pipeline Professionals Association of Nigeria. In a presentation at the conference, NEITI, the federal government agency, revealed that oil theft and losses in Nigeria have become a national emergency, and shall i say, a monumental embarrassment to the country.
Recently, Senator Chinedu Munir Nwoko, representing Aniocha/Oshimili Senatorial Constituency shed more light on this disturbing matter. Senator Nwoko said that certain security officials whose primary duty is to safeguard oil and gas assets, are actually complicit in this illegal trade. “They are driven by the financial gains associated with illegal activities”, the distinguished Senator said.
The crude oil theft network encompasses a broad spectrum of individuals and groups, as Senator Dickson rightly pointed out in his point-blank answers to questions at the Channels TV interview and corroborated by NEITI. It involves foreign oil traders, shippers, bankers, refiners, top-ranking politicians and even military officials.
The Executive Secretary, NEITI, Ogbonnaya Orji, said oil theft was an emergency that posed serious threat to oil exploration and exploitation with huge negative consequences on economic growth, business projects and profit earnings by oil companies. Providing data from the agency’s reports to back his claims, he said: “NEITI in the last five years, 2017-2021, has found that Nigeria recorded 7,143 cases of pipeline breakages and deliberate pipeline vandalism resulting in crude theft and product losses of 208.639 million barrels valued at $12.74m or 4.325 trillion naira. NEITI reports also disclosed that during the same period, Nigeria spent ₦471.493 billion to either through repairs or maintenance of pipelines.
The criminal exploits, NEITI said, takes place, ‘most times in atmosphere of communities’ complicity and conspiracy of silence. This, therefore, calls for the Tinubu administration to swiftly swing into action in a presidential manner to put an end to this dastardly act, or at least, reduce it to the barest minimum. After all, the state security agencies for effecting a quick resolution of this matter are at the president’s beck and call.
It would be recalled that NEITI released empirical data of oil theft and losses way back 2009 and 2020 to the staggering figure of 619.7 million barrels of crude, valued at $46.16 billion or ₦16.25 trillion. In addition, Nigeria lost 4.2 billion litres of petroleum products from refineries, valued at $1.84 billion at the rate of 140, 000 barrels per day, from 2009 to 2018. Thus, the total value of crude losses between 2009 and 2020 is higher than the size of the country’s reserves and almost 10 times Nigeria’s oil savings in Excess Crude Account, NEITI said.
So, how long shall Nigeria continue to condone this self-seeking administration of our oil industry? It behoves this administration with a mantra of hope for the regeneration of a true Nigerian nation to rise to the questions posed by Senator Dickson as to “why a country like Nigeria that has been producing oil, exporting oil for the past 70 years does not have a scientific way of metering, recording what leaves, what is pumped, what is sold and what is not sold”.
The presidency’s inability to proffer answers to these questions will continue to keep Nigeria in a state of coma in her overall developmental strides, including her peace, unity and security.

• Braeyi Ekiye, Publisher, EnvironmentWatch, writes from Yenagoa, Bayelsa State
• Phone/WhatsApp: +2349031594537
• Email: [email protected]
• Date: Wednesday, 3rd April, 2024.

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