
We’ll Resist Any Attempt To Allegedly Divert Maritime Varsity Dockyard To Lagos – IYC
The alleged diversion of the Nigerian Maritime University's Dockyard from its permanent site, Okerenkoko in Delta State to Lagos would triggered fresh crisis in the Niger Delta region, Ijaw Youth Council has warned.
IYC maintained that the rumoured diversion must not be true, otherwise Ijaw youths would vehemently resist it with the last drop of their blood, stressing, "Never again will the Ijaw nation sleep over our rights".
A statement by Pereotubo Oweilaemi, Esq., IYC President, Worldwide on Sunday read in part:
While we do not want to believe that President Buhari will not make such costly mistake given the fact that it took him so much pains to achieve the Pyrrhic victory of peace in the region, we need to be apprehensive to the rumour because of similar incidents in the ...