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By Joel Anekwe Against all expectations that the Senator Magnus Abe faction of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has given up on the protracted imbroglio bedeviling the party, the faction Tuesday morning unveiled what it call the party’s state Working Committee, SWC, led by Golden …

… Infrastructure, Health, Education Top Allocation  By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, presented a 2022 Appropriation Bill of N310.7 billion to the state House of Assembly. Tagged, ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth,’ the budget gave the highest allocation of N51 billion to the Ministry of …

Former governorship aspirant in Rivers State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tonye Princewill, says he will support the newly elected state executives of the party led by Chief Emeka Beke to succeed in the task of rebuilding the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. While congratulating …

… as Lokpobiri’s Faction Boycott Exercise All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State chapter, on Saturday conducted a state congress to elect its 36 state executive committee members with Barr Dennis Otiotio, emerging as chairman of the party.  But the faction of the party led by former minister of Agriculture and …

Niger Delta activist and prominent Ijaw chief, His Highness Anabs Sara-Igbe, has called on governors of South-South states in Nigeria to come clean and tell the public how they expended the 13 percent oil revenue over the years before demanding for an increase to 50 percent, noting that the region …

Ethnic Nationalities of the Niger Delta, led by Niger Delta Congress (NDC), have adopted a charter demanding that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) be amended to protect the right of the people of Niger Delta region to economic and political autonomy in the country. In the …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) says it is positioned to transform Nigeria into a gas hub within the Gulf of Guinea in line with the Energy Transition sweeping across the globe. The company said it has keyed into the nation’s Natural Gas Expansion Program …

The Bayelsa State Government has directed local councils in the state to without delay come up with a legislation prohibiting the movement of speed boats within the state’s waterways beyond 7pm. Similarly, the state government has directed the legislative councils of the eight local government councils to enact bye-laws on …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The leadership of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said that it did not reach any agreement with any group of persons to train 1,000 youths in Bayelsa State. This is coming on the heels of sustained protests carried out at the Nigerian …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The women folk of Unenurhie community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State have sent a strong verbal message to the governor of the state, Sen. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, urging him to complete without further delay the abandoned cottage hospital in their community …