By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa As the Bayelsa State Guber election draws near, a group, known as the Bayelsa Grassroot Development Initiative (BGDI), has called upon “a very important personality in the state,” Dr Frankland Oyeins Briyai, to join the race. According to the coordinator of the body, Prof Emiomukumor Augustine, BGDI …

Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Bayelsa State, a non-governmental organization, South South Peace Mission, has embarked on sensitization against pipeline vandalism, cultism, electoral violence and other social ills that are prevalent in the South South of Nigeria. Speaking to journalists before a rally in Yenagoa, national president/Founder of …

… Says PDP has Failed, Goofed As the process towards electing the next governor for Bayelsa State by November 2019 gathers steam, a man of God, Prophet Udeme John Bassey (aka Otimkpu I), has said that the immediate past minister of state for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, would emerge victorious …

Leader of the organized private sector in Rivers State, Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce (PHCCIMA) has thrown its weight behind the Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NDYEP) project, initiated by the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND). PHCCIMA President, Chief Nabil Saleh made this known when PIND’s …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Former special adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Chief Timi Alaibe, has congratulated the former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, on his nomination for ministerial appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari. Alaibe described Sylva’s nomination as …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa In spite the absence of government presence, the people of Yenakan, hometown of ex-minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, witnessed the gathering of other Atissa communities as it played host to the Uge Adiafaa Atissa Yenakan 2019. The Uge Adiafaa Atissa cultural festival is an age long opportunity for …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Ijaw youths under the auspices of Defender of Izon Nation (DIN) on Sunday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to jettison the idea of using Gov. Nyesom Wike to conduct Bayelsa guber primaries. The DIN, an Ijaw pressure group comprising militants and non-militants and known in the …

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State says he has not anointed any aspirant to succeed him, or to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, ahead of the November 16 gubernatorial polls. The PDP had slated its party primaries for September 3, while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The University of Port Harcourt Alumni Association has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the nomination of “two illustrious, people-focused and credible alumni” of the university as members of the Federal Executive Council. In a statement issued to journalists in Abuja, the association noted with pleasure the opportunity …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC) on Thursday applauded the ruling of a Bayelsa State High Court ordering the conduct of local government elections in the state. BYSIEC said that the judgment has vindicated the commission’s resolve to conduct local government elections in the eight …