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By Paul Williams Against the backdrop of the World Water Day, women from communities across the Niger Delta gathered in Port Harcourt on Thursday to lend their voices to the global call for the implementation of gender-just solutions to the global water insecurity and climate change crisis. Gathering under the …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Screening Committee for Bayelsa State on Tuesday screened and cleared Senator Douye Diri for the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. The screening exercise took place at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. Senator Diri, who is the incumbent …

An umbrella body of civil society groups in Rivers State, the Rivers State Civil Society Organizations (RIVSCO), has called on the state government to pay the salary arrears of over seven years owed teachers of staff schools of state-owned tertiary institutions. In a letter to the state governor, Barr. Nyesom …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The umbrella body of Ijaw youths worldwide, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has slammed the “faceless groups involved in the campaign of calumny against the executive vice president of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Tombomieye Adokiye,” adding that the call for a probe by …

The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the arrest of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, over a video allegedly indicating threats on voters in Orogun community, to “either vote the APC or risk being killed.” In …

… As Court Grants Approval to Reconfigure BVAS By Emmanuel Sunday The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the governorship and state House of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 by one week. The elections will now hold on March 18, 2023. The decision was reached after …

By Paul Williams Against the backdrop of rising poverty levels, over 7,000 unemployed and under-employed youths and women in the nine states of the Niger Delta have been enlisted into the Federal Government/NDDC/IFAD assisted LIFE-ND project.  Addressing the media in Port Harcourt on Friday, national project coordinator of the Livelihood …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, is clearly in distress as the National leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday asked Emmanuel Ukala, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), counsel to the Rivers State chapter not to represent the party in the appeal filed …

… Urges G-5 Governors to Support Tinubu  By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and member of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, PCC in Rivers State, Sir Tony Okocha, has condemned the party’s governorship and National Assembly candidates for leaving out the presidential candidate …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to petition the Bayelsa State Government and Governor Douye Diri to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to explain the spending of N3 billion that accrued to each of the eight local government areas of the state from …