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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Members of Aghoro 1 community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Friday berated the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) for short-changing them. They criticised the oil firm for arbitrarily determining the compensation figure for the May 17, 2018 spill in the …

The Onne Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intensified efforts at ensuring that goods cleared at the port undergo proper documentation procedures. This is in tandem with the warning given by the Area Controller, Galadimma Saidu, to officers and men of the command as he assumed duty months …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri The Urhobo Economic & Investment Group (UEIG), a business development platform, have ended its second business summit with a call on the Delta State government to create an enabling environment for investors and entrepreneurs to establish their businesses in the state. The event which was organized …

… Deny Plans to Defect By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Sixteen out of the nineteen Peoples Democratic Party members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly have passed a vote of confidence on the state governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson. In an interview with newsmen in Yenagoa, Speaker of the Assembly, …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused the All Progress Congress (APC) of using former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to legitimise illegality during the just concluded November 16 gubernatorial poll. Governor Dickson stated this during a world press briefing held three …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, says there are indications that the results of the November 16 Bayelsa State gubernatorial election were manipulated. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared David Lyon, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s exercise, as winner of …

Indigenous oil and gas firm, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Aiteo), has again raised concerns on the recent spate of sustained attacks on the key national oil infrastructure in its asset base, the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL). In a release by Ndiana Matthew, the company …

… Call on US, UK to Place Travel Ban on Perpetrators By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The John Pofi Foundation, working in collaboration with the United States Nigeria Law Group (USNLG) and the Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Electoral Integrity, has demanded for a probe of the sponsors of election …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Senator Douye Diri, gubernatorial candidate of the People Democratic Party in the November 16 election in Bayelsa State, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare him winner of the election as the result declared in favour of the All Progressives Congress’s David Lylon …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Peoples Democratic Party’s twenty-year rule of Bayelsa State has been truncated with the defeat of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Douye Diri, by that of the All Progressive Congress (APC), David Lyon. Lyon had been taunted as lacking the experience and knowledge by the ruling people’s …