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PDP Urges Aspirants to Focus on Guber Campaigns

…Warns against Attacks on Dickson By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again called on the 21 aspirants in the party to devote their energy and attention to their electoral campaigns rather than indulging in acts inimical to the unity of the …

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Bayelsa Women Celebrate Timipre Sylva

A wind of celebration blew in Bayelsa State Thursday as President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Chief Timipre Sylva as the minister of state for petroleum. Mrs Cynthia Princewill, who is the state women leader of the All Progress Congress (APC) in the state, described the appointment as a plus to every Bayelsan. The women …

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HYPREP, CSOs Disagree over Level of Work on Ogoni Cleanup

By Joel Anekwe The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and some civil society organizations (CSOs) in Rivers State have disagreed sharply on the level of work done so far on the clean-up of oil polluted sites in Ogoniland. While HYPREP says that the clean-up has fully commenced, civil society organizations …

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Crisis Imminent over Pere of Kou in Bayelsa

The Bayelsa State government has been called upon to wade into the crisis rocking the Kou clan in Ekeremor Local Government Area, so as to avoid it snowballing into a serious conflict in the community. In a petition to the governor, Ekemesowde Taroladei Peters, claimed that with the death of …

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Rivers, Almost Polio-Free ~ Agiriye Harry

Permanent secretary in charge of the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr. Agiriye Monima Harry, has expressed the hope that the state will be out of polio by the end of this year. This, he said, follows the concerted efforts of the state primary health care board to …

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