Tag: Edwin Clark
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Edwin Clark: Celebrating Nigeria’s encyclopedia of political anatomy @93
By Emman Ovuakporie It was in November 2007 that I met Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark at the Denis Osadebey Government House in Benin City for the first time as a career journalist. The news just filtered in that the voice of the South South was in government house to visit the then governor of the…
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Okowa, Ijaw forum, others celebrate Edwin Clark at 93
Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the Lagos State chapter of Ijaw Elders’ Forum (IEF) have hailed foremost Niger Delta and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, for his contributions to the development of the country. Clark, a former Federal Commissioner for Information, turns 93 today. In a statement on Sunday in Asaba, the state capital,…
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Edwin Clark mourns younger brother
Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has described the death of his younger brother, Major-Gen. Henry Clark (rtd), as devastating, shocking and heart breaking, especially for the very fact that the late brother was not sick. The late Clark reportedly died peacefully on Tuesday, two days to his 71st birthday at his Enerhen home, near Warri.…
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Edwin Clark loses 43-year-old son
Chike, son of the convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum and elder statesman, Edwin Clark, has reportedly died at the private hospital in Benin, Edo State. It was gathered that Chike, 43, died after a brief illness. He reportedly died on Monday December 17th, 2018 at the Edo State capital. According to a close…
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2019: Dickson, Clark raise alarm, say security agencies now extension of APC
Bayelsa State Governor, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, and the Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, have raised the alarm over the increasing abuse of security agencies by the ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress, and the Federal Government. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei,…
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Buhari on rule of law: Buhari now rewriting constitution – Edwin Clark
Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has condemned a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration would continue to place national security and interests above the rule of law. Buhari made the comment at the opening ceremony of the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday. Clark while speaking at the…
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Why Buhari should sack Sports Minister, Dalung – Edwin Clark
Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, for allegedly discrediting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for recognising Amaju Pinnick-led Board of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF). The elder statesman, who made the call in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said reports of “disloyalty and parochial…
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Edwin Clark condemns Rivers by-election violence, wants severe punishment for electoral offenders
A former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday called for severe sanctions for perpetrators of electoral offences in the country. Clark made the call in a telephone interview with a political correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. He was reacting to the suspension of Saturday’s by-election in Rivers State…
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Nnamdi Kanu’s agitations for Biafra is nonsense – Edwin Clark
…condemns Arewa quit notice on Igbos Elder statesman Chief Edwin Clark on Tuesday condemned the agitations for Biafra nation led by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Clark spoke on the Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, Senator Shehu Sani, visited him in Abuja. He also condemned the…
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Niger Delta elders withdraw ultimatum to FG after meeting with Osinbajo
Leaders of the Niger Delta region under the aegis of Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF), on Thursday night withdrew the November 1 ultimatum issued to the Federal Government to implement its 16-point agenda. Briefing journalists after the meeting with the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu said all…