{"id":15813,"date":"2013-01-31T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/orubebe-laments-inadequate-funding-for-n-delta-projects\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:51:00","slug":"orubebe-laments-inadequate-funding-for-n-delta-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/31\/orubebe-laments-inadequate-funding-for-n-delta-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Orubebe laments inadequate funding for N-Delta projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"61\">\n<p>By SIMON EBEGBULEM<\/p>\n<p>BENIN \u2014 Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, yesterday, said funds released to his Ministry were grossly inadequate for the development of the region, stressing the need for the Federal Government to use crude oil revenues to significantly fund the ministry\u2019s projects and programmes to avoid fresh crisis in the region.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone c21\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/new-ministers-senate-clears-7-ministerial-nominees\/godsday-orubebe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-172676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172676\" alt=\"Godsday Orubebe\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ec00Godsday-Orubebe.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Godsday Orubebe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Orubebe, in a lecture titled The Challenge of Regional Development in Nigeria: Case of the Niger Delta, at the 7th Distinguished Faculty of Social Sciences Public Lecture, of University of Benin, lamented that despite its huge resources endowment, the Niger Delta region illustrates a paradox of poverty in the midst of abundant resources.<\/p>\n<p>He said his Ministry was making steady progress in implementing a number of projects in the region, which include the East-West Road,\u00a0 as the Federal Government alone cannot fund developmental projects in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cTo avoid a return to the pre-amnesty oil production level that resulted in militancy and youths restiveness, it is imperative to use crude oil revenues to significantly fund the ministry\u2019s projects and programmes. It is important to sustain the existing peace and security in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN \u2014 Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, yesterday, said funds released to his Ministry were grossly inadequate for the development of the region, stressing the need for the Federal Government to use crude oil revenues to significantly fund the ministry\u2019s projects and programmes to avoid fresh crisis in the region. Godsday Orubebe Orubebe, in a lecture titled The Challenge of Regional Development in Nigeria: Case of the Niger Delta, at the 7th Distinguished Faculty of Social Sciences Public Lecture, of University of Benin, lamented that despite its huge resources endowment, the Niger Delta region illustrates a paradox of poverty in the midst of abundant resources. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}