By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa A group, Stakeholders Alliance for corporate responsibility (SACA) has faulted the Nigerian government and multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta over health hazards associated with exploitation and exploration activities. Speaking to Journalists at the inauguration of the group’s Project Management Committtee (PMC), the executive …
Read More »Again, Gov Diri Tasks INC on Ijaw Nation’s Challenges
Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the new leadership of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) to build linkages at home and abroad in order to successfully address the Ijaw nation’s challenges. Governor Diri, who expressed confidence in the capacity of the new leadership to effectively champion the cause …
Read More »NLNG Signs GMoU with 3 Rivers Communities on Sustainable Development
By Joel Anekwe The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has signed Global Memoranda of Understanding (GMoU) with three communities in Rivers State that would enable the communities “take ownership and drive sustainable community development” with the active support of the company. NLNG announced the first phase of the new …
Read More »NYSC Skills Model, Veritable Tool to Curbing Separatist Agitations, Insecurity ~ Rivers Coordinator
By Ebube Egbufor Rivers State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Chief Chinwendu Chukwu, has called for aggressive youth empowerment using the NYSC skills acquisition model so as to help curb issues of separatist agitations and insecurity. Chukwu made the call Friday while presiding over the 2021 Batch …
Read More »Diri Appoints Asangba, Post Primary Board Chairman
The executive chairman of the Bayelsa State Post Primary School Board, Chief Millionaire Asangba, newly appointed by Governor Douye Diri (PPSB), has said that the reason why he redeployed the board members to various departments was to ensure a smooth running of the board under his administration. He stated this …
Read More »EndSARS: Bayelsa Inquiry Orders Police to Pay N100m Compensation to Victims
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The panel of inquiry sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has ordered the Nigerian Police to pay the family of late Victor Ezekwueme, whom the police ordered to jump into the river at gun point, the sum of one hundred million naira (N100,000,000) as compensation. Justice Young …
Read More »NLNG Commissions New 126,060sqm Head Office in PH
By Joel Anekwe The new head office of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) in Port Harcourt was officially opened for operations on Wednesday. This was as the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, dismissed as “conspiracy” the narrative that the region was not safe for business. Speaking at the occasion, …
Read More »IGP’s Order on SE, SS as Capable of Harming Innocent Civilians ~ CSOs
By Joel Anekwe Civil Society Organisations CSOs in Rivers State have condemned the acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on his charge to policemen in the South East and South South “to take the war against insurgency to the camps of bandits and deal with them ruthlessly,” noting …
Read More »Twon Brass Monarch, Diete-Spiff, ‘Flees’ as Community Continues Protest at Agip Premises
The Twon Brass community in Bayelsa, hosts to Agip’s Crude Export Terminal has continued ongoing protests against lingering power outage in the settlement, while shunning entreaties from their monarch, King Alfred Diete-Spiff. Our correspondent gathered that the people alleged that the monarch was complicit in several efforts by Agip to …
Read More »Federal Lawmaker Urges Bayelsans to Embrace Cooperative Societies
By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The lawmaker representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency Hon. Fred Agbedi, has urged Bayelsans to embrace cooperative societies. Agbedi made the call at an event organized by the Alliance of South South States Cooperatives Financing Agencies of Nigeria (ASSSCOFAN) held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. “This is a …
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