By Young E. Freeborn, Warri October 3, 2023 marked four years since the Urhobo Renaissance Society (URS) was established to champion the course of promoting the Urhobo culture, and to raise the economic status of the Urhobo people, as the fifth largest ethnic group in Nigeria.  To mark the event, one …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The newly elected national chairman of the Third phase batch of ex-Agitators in the Niger Delta, general Elaye Slaboh, said his leadership will ensure that beneficiaries do not resort to protest, that usually leads to the blockage of the East-West road (especially at Mbiama), but will …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Independent Corrupt Practice and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has begin tracking of 46 constituency and executive projects in Bayelsa State worth billions of Naira. This was made known by ICPC’s Assistant Chief Supretendent Afolabi Kolawole on Monday June 17, during a visit to the …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi  The Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA) has commended the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal for affirming the election of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu,  The ruling which was delivered on Friday by the Appellate Court, which is the final …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The executive director of Stakeholders Alliance for Corporate Accountability (SACA) Kingsley Ozegbe, has disclosed that a review of the National oil spill monitor website has revealed that third party interference, vandalism and willful damage has accounted for 76.24% of 1,107 oil spill incidences between January 2018 …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  It’s good to see Senate President Godswill Akpabio putting ice on the “plenary spat” between him and Senate Chief Whip Ali Ndume on October 17, 2023. The disruption the rowdiness could’ve caused was timely averted with the Senate going into an executive (a closed-door) session. Akpabio – …

By Amos Odhe The Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Rivers State Command, James Sunday, has been conferred with Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Administration. The investiture ceremony, which was held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State saw Comptroller James Sunday conferred with the fellowship by the chairman of …

… Applauds PFN’s Peace Drive By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Founder and general overseer of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, has expressed deep concern for the cause of the Ijaw Nation, adding that Bayelsa State and the entire Ijaw ethnic nationality have been a huge burden to him spiritually and physically. …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The Uku-in-charge and son of the founder of the Igbe Orhe Ofuafo Oghene Healing Home, Uku Simon Imoni Efedudu, has said religion and tribalism have torn Nigerians, including thousands of families in the country, apart. He made this assertion recently during one of the Igbe …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa As voter education intensifies in Bayelsa State ahead of the governorship election, the Eunice Nnachi Women Advocacy Foundation, ENWAF, has called on the people of Sabageria community and its environs to avoid all forms of violence before, during and after the election. Chief Executive Officer of …