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Not less than 30 officers of the Nigerian Air Force have graduated from a cyber security and digital skills acquisition programme, organised by a non-governmental organisation, Wealveth Hub for Administrative Advancement. The students, according to our correspondent, were trained on e-archiving, e-traveling and cyber security among others. Speaking at the …

Governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, in Rivers State, High Chief Sobomabo Jackrich, has identified with the people of the Ogoni ethnic nationality as they commemorate 27 years of the “unjust killing” of Environmental Rights activist and social crusader, Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other Ogoni compatriots. In …

27 years after the death of the Ogoni 13, the executive director of the Network for the Defence of Democracy and Good Governance, Amb Sobomabo Jackrich, has paid tribute to leader of the Ogoni 9, Ken Saro Wiwa, and other “heroes of the struggle for the social, economic and environmental …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Elders and leadership of the Adiegbe Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have accused six personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) of alleged involvement in the killing of three youths of the community over involvement in illegal bunkering and …

… Sets up Directorate of Flood, Erosion Control By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Monday, presented a N385,211,578,924 Appropriation Bill for the 2023 fiscal year to the House of Assembly for consideration. Presenting the proposal tagged: ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth and Reconstruction,’ at the Assembly, …

… State Most Impacted in Nigeria, Diri Insists The United Nations has described the flood disaster in Bayelsa State as a crisis of major proportion that deserves attention. The UN Resident and Humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria and representative of the secretary general, Mr. Matthias Schmale, stated this on Saturday when …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Government has charged community leaders in the state to stop interfering with the distribution of relief materials meant for designated IDP camps located in their communities. The state Commissioner for Environment and Chairman of the state Flood Management and Mitigation Taskforce, Hon Iselema Gbaranbiri, …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The Prince Oghenerukevwe Okifo Foundation (POOF), a popular non-governmental organisation in Delta State has donated relief materials worth millions of naira to the three different IDP camps created by the state government at Evwreni and Uwheru towns in Ughelli North Local Government Area, and Ewhu town …

… Calls for Peaceful Polls  By Emmanuel Ovundah The general overseer of Deeper life Bible Church worldwide Pastor (Dr.) William Folorunso Kumuyi has advised Nigerians to embrace peace before, during and after the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Briefing journalists in Bori, headquarters of Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State on …

By Ovundah Emmanuel Connected Development (CODE), one of the leading civil society organizations in Africa, has urged the Rivers State government to address infrastructural decay and deficit impeding development in the state, especially in the rural and oil producing communities. Rivers State lead for CODE, Evelyn Williams, gave the charge …