BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-NIGERIAN " ELDER PETER GODSDAY ORUBEBE " WAS APPOINTED NIGERIAN MINISTER OF NIGER ON 6 APRIL 2010 : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

                       BLACK                  SOCIAL              HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Elder Peter Godsday Orubebe (born 6 June 1959) was appointed Nigerian Minister of Niger Delta on 6 April 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.^[1]

Background

Orubebe was born on 6 June 1959 at Ogbobagbene, Burutu Local Government Area in Delta State.^[2] He is of Ijaw origin.^[1] He attended the University of Lagos, gaining a B.Sc in Political Science in 1985. Later he obtained a Masters Degree in International Relations from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in 2005.^[2]

Political career

Orubebe became a Supervisory Councilor, and later Chairman of Burutu LGA. In July 2007, President Umaru Yar'Adua appointed him Minister of Special Duties.^[2] Later he became Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs when that ministry was created in December 2008.^[3] In January 2010 he said that the proposed 10% equity share policy on infrastructural development in the Niger Delta region would make vandalism and crisis a thing of the past.^[4]