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The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has donated 2,170 bags of rice as palliatives to women organisations, youth groups and physically challenged persons in Bayelsa State. A director at the NDDC, Mr. Nwelue Kelechi, who represented the commission’s interim administrator, Effiong Akwa at the flag off of the distribution of …
Read More »Stakeholders Demand ‘Better Federal Presence in Bayelsa’
… Buhari will do more ~ Sylva … We Deserve Full Cabinet Position ~ Diri Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Monday, joined other key stakeholders to demand better federal government presence in the bid to fast-track overall development of the state. The stakeholders made the call during a …
Read More »OML 30: Host Communities Protecting Pipelines, Oil Facilities ~ Umukoro
A youth leader from Kokori oil producing community in OML30, in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Comrade Odiri Umukoro, has said he is satisfied that indigenes and youths of the 112 host communities in OML30, are engaged in securing the pipelines and oil facilities in the asset. …
Read More »Shell, Environmentalists Differ on Dutch Court’s Ruling on N’ Delta Spill Victims
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and prominent environmentalists have held divergent views on Friday’s verdict by a Dutch court that found Shell liable for pollution of farmlands and fish ponds of four farmers in the Niger Delta. While SPDC expressed disappointment over the ruling, some environmentalists applauded …
Read More »Oil Spill Victims: ERA/FoEN Applauds Dutch Court’s Judgement against Shell
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has applauded the decision of a Dutch Court of Appeal in favour of four Bayelsa farmers impacted by oil spill. Dutch court on Friday ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Bayelsa. The Court of Appeal …
Read More »Ijaw Youths Tackle FG for ‘Cancelling Oil Blocs Awarded to N’Deltans’
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Wednesday, condemned the Federal Government for allegedly cancelling Oil Prospecting Licences (OPL) 2001, 2002 and 2003 awarded to companies owned by Niger Delta indigenes, in spite of a court order restraining it from doing so. Speaking through its national chairman on Strategy, Planning and Program, …
Read More »Wike Dissociates Self from Presidential Campaign Posters
By Joel Anekwe Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has denied knowledge of the source of the 2023 presidential campaign posters bearing his name and picture that flooded the streets of Abuja on Monday January 25, 2021. The governor, through his commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, described the …
Read More »3,000 Students Benefit from Bayelsa Students Loan Scheme ~ Amaegberi
Over 3,000 students of Bayelsa State extraction have benefited from the Bayelsa State Higher Education Students Loan Board scheme in the last one year. In the same vein, N400 million in loans have been have given out to undergraduate and post graduate students including those pursuing professional programme. Executive Secretary …
Read More »Minimum Wage: NUT Gives Bayelsa 14-day Ultimatum, Threatens Strike
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Bayelsa State chapter has said it would have no other option than to embark on a strike action after the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum to the state government to resolve lingering issues with the union. The union regretted that the series of meetings …
Read More »Govt Has Not Hijacked Ijaw National Congress ~ Bayelsa Commissioner
… Calls for Synergy between Ijaws, Sister Ethnic Groups Bayelsa State commissioner for Ijaw national Affairs, Elder Patrick Erasmus, has broken silence on the leadership imbroglio in the Ijaw sociocultural organisation, the Ijaw National Congress, INC. Speaking with newsmen at the weekend in Yenagoa, the Rivers State-born Bayelsa commissioner noted that the …
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