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By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Bayelsa State table tennis team on Sunday won bronze in the men’s doubles in the ongoing National Youth Games in Asaba Delta, tagged Asaba 2023. Fineboy Samuel and Victor Udoh both secured bronze for team Bayelsa in men’s doubles having earlier beaten Kogi State 2-1 in the quarter finals but lost to Lagos State in semi finals to get an automatic bronze medal. Team Bayelsa in the women’s doubles lost 2-0 to Kwara State with attention now shifting to the singles both men and women. Hostilities will return on Monday at the indoor hall of the…

…. Urges ‘Body of Christ’ to Focus on Salvation Gospel  By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The deputy governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, says the Church is fast losing its true value in society due to excessive focus on material prosperity at the expense of the gospel of salvation. Senator Ewhrudjakpo made the assertion when he received a delegation from the Nigerian Baptist Convention, led by its president, His Eminence, Reverend (Dr.) Israel Adelani Akanji, at the Government House, Yenagoa, at the weekend. In a statement by his senior special assistant on Media, Mr Doubara Atasi, the deputy governor described…

By Ehichioya Ezomon The faceoff between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu recalls to mind a popular meme – “If Men Were God” – adopted by a transport company plying many routes across Nigeria.  The phrase was left hanging without supplying what would happen were men to be God! But trust Nigerians! They filled the void with a stream of alternatives, thus: If men were God, “Humans will have one eye, one nostril, one ear, one hand, one leg, no fingers, no toes, no teeth, no stomach, no private parts. And wait for this: The “men-God” will limit, ration…

  … My Administration Doesn’t Play Politics with Development ~ Gov Diri By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Thursday, inaugurated phase two of the newly-completed Glory Drive dual carriageway, a 10.2-kilometer road project constructed by the Governor Douye Diri administration. The road, which stretches from Igbogene through several communities and eventually terminates at Onopa in the Yenagoa city centre, was conceptualsed by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan when he was governor of the state. Speaking during the ceremony, the Sultan said he was proud to be associated with Senator Diri’s success story…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Rotary Club of Oxbow Lake, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Yenagoa Sunshine, and with support from the Partners for Peace (P4P) and the West African Network for Peace (WANEP), held a ‘Peace Awareness Seminar’ on September 21, 2023 as part of activities to commemorate the 2023 International Peace Day. The event, with the theme ‘We All Need Peace,’ was held at the Etegwe Community Townhall in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, and featured a keynote address delivered by Past District Governor of Rotary International District 9141, Rotarian Mightyman Aye Dikuro, a retired permanent secretary in…

By Amos Odhe President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation, NWF, Daniel Igali has heaped praises on Odunayo Adekuoroye following her automatic qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics in France. Hon. Igali in a statement through the NWF media assistant, Promise Okotoko, on Friday, lauded the performance of Adekuoroye at the ongoing Senior World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. Adekuoroye won a bronze medal in the Women’s 57kg Freestyle Wrestling category after beating Elvira Kamaloglu of Turkey 9-5 points on Wednesday. The victory made Adekuoroye a 4-time World medalist, become the first Nigerian wrestler to automatically qualify for Paris 2024 Olympic…

The second edition of the Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA), to be held in Lagos, Nigeria from September 24 to 28, 2023, will bring together women from fourteen countries across Central and West Africa, under the theme, ‘African Women Unite for Climate Justice, Reparations and Development Alternatives.’ This follows the success of last year’s inaugural assembly in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and has “overarching goal is to support and unite women-led movements in Africa against dirty energy, the new ‘green’ assault on Africa’s mineral wealth and false climate change solutions which allow mega corporations to continue doing damage to the planet.” According…

… Insists on ‘Decentralized Award of Pipeline Surveillance Contract’ By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Ex-militants from the six states of the Niger Delta region, under the aegis of the Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters of Niger Delta (SEFFND), have dismmised as “false” and ” sponsored blackmail” the claim that the leader of Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, (NDPVF) and former president of Ijaw Youth Council IYC Worldwide, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari was barred from the Presidential Villa due to an allege rift with President Bola Tinubu. According to SEFFND, though “those behind the claims have been identified as desperate contractors seeking renewal…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, has described Bayelsa state as the second poorest state in Nigeria, with 88 percent, after Sokoto State with 95 percent index. Peter Obi said Bayelsa is not supposed to be among the poorest state with all the billions coming into the state every month, linking this to bad leadership. Obi handed down this during a town hall meeting in Yenagoa to unveil the Labour Party governorship candidate for the November 11 polls, Engr. Udengs Eradiri, and his running mate, retired Commodore Benjamin Nathus, and handing over of flag…

Members of the Gist Newspaper and Magazine Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Rivers State Council, have been charged to keep to the standard of journalism practice. State Chairman of the union, Mr. Stanley Job Stanley who was speaking at the inauguration of the chapel in Port Harcourt on Monday September 18, 2023 maintained that journalism has no room for mediocres, hence members must embrace professionalism from all spheres. “In line with the practice, Nigerian journalists are always proactive when it comes to information dissemination to the general public. Be therefore encouraged to do the needful and be up and…