Niger Delta
Wike, Others Set For Gbaramatu Voice Awards
The KFT Place located at the NNPC Housing Complex, off Airport Road, Ekpan, Delta State will on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, play host to the grand finale of the third anniversary of the Gbaramatu Voice Newspaper.
Shortlisted to mount the podium to receive awards of Niger Delta Governor of the Year 2017 include Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson and Delta State Governor, Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, respectively.
To kick-start the programme by 12noon on the fateful day would be a lecture entitled, “Niger Delta Beyond Oil: Searching for Sustainable Development”, which would be followed by the Award of Recognition/Induction into the Gbaramatu Voice Hall of Fame.
Categories of awards of Recognition/Induction into the Gbaramatu Voice Hall of Fame for which nominees have been shortlisted, include Niger Delta Governor of the Year; Philanthropist of the Year; Woman of the Year; Musician of the Year; Showbiz Impresario of the Year; Business Personality of the Year; Corporate Organisation of the Year; Legislator of the Year and Sports Personality of the Year.
Distinguished chairman of the day would be the former governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan.
The day would be rounded off with a dinner for awardees and invitees alike.
The best multi-media newspaper in the Niger Delta, Gbaramatu Voice Newspaper, was founded on August 8, 2015, and is published by multi-award-winning Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited in Warri, Delta State, with offices in all the other Niger Delta states in Nigeria. The Niger Delta Newspaper, places premium on investigative, exhaustive and authoritative news media available on all platforms, with its focus embedded in the extensive reportage of politics, economy, especially the activities of oil companies in, but not limited to the Niger Delta, crime, religion, sports, arts and culture, lifestyle, the mighty, the low and the ordinary, while maintaining credible and ethical journalistic standard.