The Commander, Joint Task Force, South South, Operation Delta Safe, Rear Admiral Noel Musa Madugu, has called on journalists in Bayelsa State to keep sustain the existing relationship between the security agencies and the media. This he said will help them achieve their aim of being in the region. Speaking …

By Godwin Chukwumaech, Port Harcourt The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has arrested one Anthony Chidi a 52-year-old man, who allegedly specialises in producing fake alcoholic beverages inside Mile 3 Market, Diobu, Port Harcourt. The suspect was arrested while washing used bottles of various brands of …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Tuesday began training of community leaders drawn from the 9 states of the Niger Delta on conflict management and dispute resolution. Participants at the training, which include traditional rulers, community development committee (CDC) chairmen, youth leaders and women …

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has launched a statewide briefing of statekholders on the recent controversies over local government leadership in the state. The governor is scheduled to visit and update key leaders of thought on the development in a special briefing session with the state Council of Traditional …

By Hamzat Lawal Mallam Nuhu Ribadu became a household name in Nigeria during the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. He was a prominent face in the small team of reformers put together by Obasanjo to set Nigeria on the path of democratic progress and economic prosperity in the dawning …

A coaching clinic for grassroots coaches in Bayelsa State put up by the organizers of Nigeria’s biggest football showpiece, the Bayelsa Governor’s Football Tournament tagged the “Prosperity Cup” has commenced in Yenagoa, the state capital. The exercise, which is in its 3rd edition, is in collaboration with Nigerian Football Federation …

The Bayelsa State Government has appealed to the people of Yenagoa and Ovom communities currently locked in a dispute over ownership of the land, where the new 9-storey secretariat is sited, to sustain their age long unity and peaceful coexistence. The deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the appeal at …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Indigenes of Uwheru Community living in Bayelsa State, under the aegis of the state chapter of Uwheru Development Union (UDU), have elected a new executive and consequently sworn-in them to pilot the affairs of the union for the next three years as stipulated by its constitution …

The saying that a gold fish has no hiding place played out recently when Sani Ahmed, a brigadier general and commander of the 6 division Garrison of the Nigerian army in port Harcourt Rivers State was bestowed with an award as a distinguished security icon by the Niger Delta media …

By Ehichioya Ezomon Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder statesman, former Federal Commissioner, Leader of the Ijaw Nation, and Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), died on Monday, February 17, 2025, aged 97. Since his passing, the family home in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has become a melting port for “our …