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… As Covid 19 Task Force Demolish GSM Phone Market By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Traders at the popular Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communication Village, at Tombia Roundabout in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, have lamented the demolition of their stalls and loss of goods worth billions of naira. They …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Thursday said findings on the dead fishes littering the Atlantic coastline indicated high levels of toxicity caused by toxic wastes discharge. The agency noted that the discharge of toxic materials into the Atlantic may have come …

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Saturday, commended the Federal Government and the drive by the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and its joint venture partners to combat COVID-19, through the consolidation and improvement of medical facilities. Diri gave the commendation at the groundbreaking ceremony of a 200-bed medical …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The permanent secretary, Ministry of Education in Bayelsa State, Comrade Walton Liverpool, said those clamoring for the merger of existing state-owned tertiary institutions are enemies of the state. The permanent secretary made the assertion while speaking to newsmen on the sidelines of clamours in some quarters for …

The rising incidence of sea piracy along the Akassa-Brass-Yenagoa route in Bayelsa State is giving commuters cause for concern. The latest attack took place over the weekend with one health worker returning from a Coronavirus sensitization campaign in Brass Local Government Area injured. The Akassa-Brass-Nembe-Yenagoa sea routes are often hotbed …

The Bayelsa State Task Force on COVID-19 has said that 140 blood samples sent to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) approved laboratory in Edo State between March and April, 2020 have all tested negative.  The co-chairman of the State Task Force on Covid-19, Dr Inodu Apoku, who disclosed this …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri An executive member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Evwreni Ward in Ughelli North LGA of Delta State and also the chairman of Unenurhie youths, Mr. Friday Diamond, aka ‘Ogbo’ said Evwreni Ward didn’t benefit from Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s gifts to all the communities and …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri Evwreni kingdom was recently relieved of hunger and hardship as the duo of Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, and Chief Engr. Samuel Adjogbe, two All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Delta State again showed their benevolence and charity as they supported their communities with over ten million naira …

Two months after he took office, Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Tuesday, presented an appropriation bill of N242.283 billion for the 2020 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly. Presenting his maiden budget estimate christened, ‘Consolidation for Prosperity 2020,’ Senator Diri said the appropriation bill defines the structure …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri Urhobo, as one of the recognized ethnic nationalities in Delta State and Nigeria, even though it’s today grouped under minorities, at present, has 24 traditionally and politically recognized kingdoms or clans. Professor Onigu Otite, an Urhobo internationally acclaimed sociologist defined a kingdom in his book titled, …