By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State owned Niger Delta Teaching Hospital, situated at Okolobiri in Yenagoa local government area of the state, has shut down its services due to the rampaging flood. Sources revealed the flood has adversely affected the institution as the roads leading to Okolobiri from Igbogene …
Read More »Lift Restrictions on Payment to NDDC Contractors, Stakeholders Urge Buhari, Nat’l Assembly
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Traditional rulers, elders, women groups, youth groups, and a peace advocacy group in the South-South region, known as the Movement for Sustainable Development of the Niger Delta (MSDND), have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to allow management of the Niger Delta Commission …
Read More »Declare Flooding in Bayelsa, Others National Emergency, Diri Urges FG
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the Federal Government to declare a national emergency on the rampaging flood that has devastated lives and property in the state and others in the country. Senator Diri made the call at an emergency security council meeting in …
Read More »Bayelsa Media Award Set for 4th Edition in Yenagoa
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Plans have been concluded for the 4th edition of one of the most prestigious media awards in Nigeria, the Bayelsa Media Network Award (BMNA). According to the organizers, the event which is slated for the 26th of December, 2022 will hold at the Nigeria Union of …
Read More »Flood: Hope Beckons as Eruvwuoghene Foundation Supports IDP Camp in Uwheru
By Amos Okioma Following the intervention of Hon. Stella Eruvwuoghene Okotete, executive director, Business Development, Nigerian Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank, victims of the flood disaster in Uwheru Kingdom have begun settling in the camp opened for internally displaced persons Monday at Uwheru Grammar School in Uwheru, Ughelli North Local Government Area …
Read More »Flood Kills One, Destroy Houses, Farmlands at Unenurhie
… Residents Call for Support By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Unenurhie community, Evwreni kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State has been thrown into mourning as the ravaging flood affecting most parts of the country claimed one life and destroyed residential houses, businesses and farmlands in the …
Read More »African Women Unite on Climate Crisis
“Building the voices of rural women in climate action,” in the words of Côte d’Ivoire’s Josiane Boyo Yebi, “will make sure that there are real solutions to climate change.” She stressed that “with the climate crisis, rural women are doubly victimised. She suffers from the lack of land and from …
Read More »House on the Rock Donates Bus, Grinding Machines to 200 Widows
In a bid to make life easier for the less privileged around them, as well as “teach them to fish for themselves, the House on the Rock, Port Harcourt, last Saturday donated a mini-bus, over 30 grinding machines and other items to 200 widows from its surrounding communities. Also thrown …
Read More »UI Alumni President Visits Port Harcourt Chapter
The President of the University of Ibadan Alumni Association Worldwide (UIAA), Prof. Elsie Adewoye is due in Port Harcourt on Friday to meet with the Rivers State Chapter of the association. Rivers State protem chairman of the association, Amb Isaac George, said the President is on tour to revitalize the …
Read More »Rivers APC Rejects Justice Daylop-Pam’s Resolve in suit against NASS Candidates
By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has joined its candidates for National Assembly seats in the 2023 elections to reject Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam as presiding judge over a case instituted against the APC candidates by the state chapter of the Peoples …
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