By Joel Anekwe   Value Chain Traders Organisation of Nigeria (VACTON), an umbrella body for manufacturers, importers, exporters, traders and other related organisations, has been inaugurated with the aim of trade facilitation and elimination of business malpractices. Speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt, on the emergence of the organisation, …

  By David Owei, Yenagoa   The people of Ekeremor Local Government Area has given Rt. Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson’s government kudos for living up to his electioneering promises, by constructing a motorable road to Ekeremor town, headquarters of the LGA. Before now, to access Ekeremor LGA the people had …

A business mogul and high chief from Edo State, Chief Ogbebor (aka Edo I) has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to allocate more funds to education in the country especially in the 2019 budget. Ogbebor, popularly known as Edo I by his friends and associates made the …

The Port Harcourt Old Township was agog with the birthday celebration of Chief Tamunotonye Wenike Jim Tom Big Harry who clocked 78 recently. A cross section of well-wishers and guests described the septuagenarian as a humble and principle man with unblemished track record of discipline, adding that his caliber is …

  …Urges Those Who Created Crisis to Apologize   The senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe has said that neither the future of the All Progressive Congress (APC) nor the fate of its members can be determined by one person. He added that …

  By Amos Odeh (Yenagoa)   KEFFES Rural Development Foundation (RDF) over the weekend inaugurated some 20 projects in eight communities hosting the operations of Chevron Nigeria Limited in Bayelsa State. 20 projects were reportedly implemented at a total cost of N241.43 million over the last two years. KEFFES, is …

  By David Owei (Yenagoa)   Following reports of burglary and stealing in the Yenagoa metropolis, the commissioner of Police Bayelsa State Command, CP Aminu Pai Saleh has charged tactical commanders and divisional police officers to intensify their operations to curb the menace. On Friday, December 21, 2018, at about 0445hrs, …

  By David Owei (Yenagoa)   Civil society activists in Bayelsa State are advocating a review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act, 2004, in line with present day realities. To this end, a community-based eight-member committee has been set up to sensitize communities in the state on the EIA …

  By David Owei, Yenagoa   Justice Kate Abiri, chief judge of Bayelsa has declined an application to have the rape trial of Chief Richard Kpodo, a former security adviser to ex-governor Timipre Sylva to another judge. It would be recalled that the ongoing trial of Kpodo, charged for rape …

  By David Owei, Yenagoa   Four persons have been critically injured in a ghastly motor accident involving a tanker laden with petrol and two commercial tricycles, known in local parlance as Keke. The incident happened along Akenpai, a suburb in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital. The accident, according to resident who witnessed …