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By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa All is now set for SamKay Athletics Academy to partner the Bayelsa State Athletics Association in a 2-day Athletics Clinic for young athletes within the ages of 6 and 20 years. The athletics programme is to take place at the Main Bowl of the Samson Siasia Sports Complex, Yenagoa between Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd of April, 2024 and it is meant to expose young people to track and field events. According to a statement issued by the organisers, the clinic, among others will feature talks on rudiments of athletics, nutrition and benefits of sports to…

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The 2024 edition of the annual Unenurhie Day of Prayers and Thanksgiving started with songs of joy and ended with shower of blessings upon the people and the land. The event, which is in its third edition and usually holds on 25 and 26 March every year, took place at the Unenurhie Event Centre with many sons and daughters of the community, resident at home and or in the Diaspora, as well as guests, in attendance. Speaking to the large audience on the first day, on the theme of the event, titled, ‘The Power in…

By Godwin Chukwumaechi Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited and its group, comprising Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, Ocean Marine Solutions and Delta Pacific Marine Services, have come together to develop an aligned direction for their businesses with the aim of sustaining its leadership in its core business area, increase market share and boost revenue. The group also declared its intention to immediately recapitalise so as to support its plans to boost investment in new areas of business in order to increase revenue generation and profit for its companies and shareholders. These plans were made public last week by the directors of the…

By Amos Odie, Yenagoa The Presidential Amnesty Programme Strategic Communication Committee (STRATCOM) has applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing High Chief Dennis Otuaro as the new administrator of PAP. STRATCOM in a statement signed on Tuesday by its chairman, Pastor Nature Dumale, described the appointment as a testament of President Tinubu’s capacity to select qualified and experienced individuals to work with him. He said Otuaro having been part of the Niger Delta struggles understood the problems, issues and challenges facing the region, especially those affecting ex-agitators. He said the committee was confident that Otuaro would deploy his experience to…

By Godwin Chukwumaechi Even as the dust continues to settle over events leading to the last days of the Dr Goodluck Jonathan presidency, former minister of Sports and Youth Development in the administration, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has said that the former president was neither weak nor clueless. Dr Jonathan, who has been roundly criticised as weak and clueless during his reign (2010-2015), lost the 2015 presidential election to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Abdullahi made the assertion in Port Harcourt at the weekend while presenting his book, ‘On A Platter Of Gold – How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria,’ at the…

By Ehichioya Ezomon A tell-tale photograph from the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja showed Senator and former Governor Adams Oshiomhole (APC, Edo North), beaming, and hugging the party candidate for the September 21, 2024, governorship election in Edo State, Sen. Monday Okpebholo (APC, Edo Central), for accepting to run with Rep. Dennis Idahosa (APC, Ovia Federal Constituency). Self-assured Oshiomhole’s elated because he’s somewhat regained his mojo that’s lost over the scheming for the APC flagbearer – which he’d primed for Idahosa, but clinched by Okpebholo through the backing of two-time governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. And…

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri As the Delta State 2024 local council elections draw closer, leaders and members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Unenurhie community, Evwreni Ward (08), in Ughelli North Local Government Area have declared their support for Rtn. Fidelis Adjogbe, a frontline aspirant for the LGA’s chairmanship position. Rising from a meeting at the Unenurhie Event Centre, presided over by the vice chairman of Evwreni Ward PDP, Mr. Moses Ovwighose, party leaders from the community pledged to vigorously canvass support for the Ughelli North chairmanship aspirant and the party, aimed at bringing the governor’s MORE developments…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the appointment of Prof. Nimibofa Ayawei as secretary to the State Government (SSG). He also named Dr. Peter Pereotubo Akpe as the chief of Staff (CoS), Government House. A press release by his chief press secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, also said that Mr. Irorodamie Komonibo has been appointed as the new deputy chief of Staff (DCoS), Government House, while Alabrah retained his position as CPS from the governor’s first term. The governor’s spokesman stated that the appointments take immediate effect. Until the new appointment, Nimibofa Ayawei, a…

By Amos Odhe Worried by growing incidence of fake news in Osun State, the state government has set up a Cyber Crime Action Committee, to “give effect to relevant provisions of the law with respect to cyber crimes, cyber bullying and deliberate online false news.” The government in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, stated that the step becomes necessary to sanitize the governance space and ensure that politicking and governance take place under an atmosphere of responsibility, decency and honesty. The statement posited that the increasing wave of fake news negatively affects both the…

By Godwin Chukwumaechi A Port Harcourt-based book organisation, the August Meeting, has launched the Education Champions League, a competition among secondary schools in Port Harcourt, aimed at improving reading and writing among coming generations. The launch was done during the organisation’s first quarter August Meeting held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The August Meeting is a book reading event during which the book ‘On A Platter Of Gold – How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria,” written by Bolaji Abdulahi, one-time federal Minister of Sports, was reviewed. Also, two other titles; ‘Becoming A News Titan,’ by Chioma Ezenwafor, and…