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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Landlords and house owners in Okoria community, Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have taken to the streets to protest against alleged forceful demolition of their property by the Central Naval Command. The aggrieved protesters marched through the Melford Okilo Road terminating at …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri More reactions continue to trail the ban on the sale of cow meat in Uwheru communities in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The ban comes on the heels of recent horrors and killings in Agadama, Avwon and Ohoror communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen. …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  The Bayelsa state governor, Senator Douye Diri, has suspended the chairman of an unnamed government agency or board (name withheld) whose statutory tenure would end in 2021. According to a source, the board chairman, though a People Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, was allegedly involved in anti-party politics and …

… Command Probes Allegation By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa An operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), serving at the Bayelsa State Command (names withheld) has allegedly defiled two sisters, aged between 12 and 10. Our reporter gathered that the NSCDC operative, who is attached to an oil surveillance …

… Set to Deploy Protests, Legal Action to Get Shops By Joel Anekwe  Members of the Mile 1 Market Shop Owners Association have rejected the proposal that the available shops at the recently commissioned phase 2 of the Rumuwoji Market, popularly known as the Mile 1 market, would be balloted …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Authority (BESA) has arrested forty-two persons for violating the law which prohibits movements of unauthorized persons from 7am to 10 am of every last Saturday of the month, in the bid for individuals and corporate bodies to clean their surroundings and …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The organised Labour in Bayelsa has urged the new government in the state to offset the outstanding January salary of some workers. The unions, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) gave the advice in separate interviews with journalists on Tuesday in …

The Presidential Amnesty Programme, through its Rivers State Liaison Office, has undertaken the provision of Commodity Shop/Starter Pack empowerment items to beneficiaries of the programme. This as coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo, has said that the empowerment starter pack, which is meant to enable them …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), subsidiary of US firm ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri It’s widely believed, especially among sociologists that, once you know the causes of a problem, then it’s very much easy to proffer solutions or solve such a problem. In fact, such a problem is already half-way solved. This is why our elders say, ‘There is no …