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As part of activities marking the beginning of Delta State governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori’s second year in office, former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, is to commission the Delta State High Court Complex on Tuesday. Governor Oborevwori had on May 29, 2024 celebrated the first anniversary of his administration as Delta State’s helmsman, with “a grand, colourful, uplifting and befitting Praise and Worship musical extravaganza, which featured some of the finest Gospel artistes and Music ministers in the country.” As the state’s Commissioner for Information, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza, pointed out, “May 29, 2024 also swiftly marked the uninterrupted commencement…

By our Reporter Dr Dennis Brutu Otuaro, the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), has urged members of staff to be more efficient and productive in accomplishing the programme’s mandate of ensuring enduring peace and security in the Niger Delta. Speaking at a re-orientation workshop for new and existing PAP Office employees in Abuja at the weekend, Otuaro reiterated his commitment to diligently working towards achieving the goals for which the programme was established. He assured that the programme was in “safe hands” and vowed to leverage his position to make a positive impact in the region by achieving…

… Insists Nigeria’s 1914 Amalgamation relics are in Ikot Abasi not Zungeru  By Amos Odie As Akwa Ibom State Government gets set to re-write its own tourism narratives, the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Sir Charles Udoh, has said the 1914 Amalgamation relics are in Ikot Abasi Local Government Ares of the state and not in Zungeru. The commissioner said the need to re-write all contentious tourism stories of the state is geared at placing Akwa Ibom State in its rightful position as the Tourism capital of Nigeria. Already, the state government is drumming home the tourism story that, the…

Commemorating Children’s day, a Port Harcourt based linguist and Indigenous Language advocate, Mr. Josiah Egbilika has tasked parents all over the world to take the transfer of their indigenous languages to their children seriously. He made the charge while speaking in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria. According to him, most parents communicate to their children in foreign languages at home, they don’t speak their indigenous languages to their children and wonder why their children can’t speak the language. “How can the children speak the language when you don’t speak it or use it to communicate with them.…

By our Reporter Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has given approval for educational, residential and other projects for the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) in the state. The projects include completion of a boarding school at Zarama community, a primary school at the Air Force Base and a training centre at Angalabiri community. He also directed the completion of documentation for approval of the Certificate of Occupancy of the permanent site of the Air Force near the state airport. Governor Diri gave the approval on Wednesday during a courtesy visit by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan…

By our Reporter The immediate past President of Kenya Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, former Liberian President George Weah, former Vice President of Zambia, Dr. Nevers Mumba, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III as well as the head of the UNDP Sub-Regional Hub for West and Central Africa, Njoya Tikum, are set to attend the 2024 Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF) Democracy Dialogue scheduled to hold in Benin, Edo State on June 13, 2024. This year’s dialogue, the third in the series, will be hosted by GJF founder and former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and co-hosted by the governor…

By Amos Odie, Yenagoa The Kukah Centre has appealed to political leaders, political parties and other stakehoders to embrace peace, peace building initiatives and social integration and move forward now that the governorship election in Bayelsa State has come and gone. The call was made at a conference organized by the Centre in Yenagoa, tagged, ‘From Polls to Peace,’ with the theme ‘Strengthening Social Integration and Peace Initiative in Bayelsa State.’ Speaking at the conference, the Project Manager, The Kukah Centre, Emmanuel Nkanta, described the event as a follow up to the November 2023 Peace Accord that was signed in…

By our Reporter Ex-agitators, leaders and stakeholders from the six states of the Niger Delta region, under the auspices of Niger Delta Advocate for Peace And Good Governance Group, NDAPGGG, have showered encomiums on leader of the defunct Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo on his 60th birthday, describing him as one of the region’s freedom fighter that stood against injustice and oppression. The National leadership of the NDAPGGG, during a meeting held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and convened by ex-militant leader, Comrade Fiawei Pathfinder, also known as ‘General Osama;’ secretary, Comrade Sir Dr…

By our Reporter Sariki Pereowei of Teammate United on Tuesday registered the first hat-trick of the season six of the Bayelsa State Governor’s Football Tournament tagged the Prosperity Cup to propel his side to a spectacular victory. Teammate United spanked NDU Civil Engineering FC 4-1 in an encounter decided at the Amasoma center. Woyeinmiela Promise of NDU Civil Engineering drew the first blood two minutes into the game as Ofoin Kennedy restored parity for Teammate United on 17 minute to end the encounter 1-1 at half time. When it seemed the game was going to stretch into penalties, Sariki Pereowei…

By Ehichioya Ezomon Seeming to belie the header for this article that’s run three installments, a couple of weeks has witnessed the return of former Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike – from his semblance of a sabbatical leave – to rejoin Governor Siminalayi Fubara in shadow-boxing, and stoking the metatarsising Rivers political crisis. On Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Ogu-Bolo, Rivers State, at a grand reception in honour of Chief George Thompson Sekibo for his 20 years of public service, Wike – who no longer has the luxury of daily political rhetoric as…