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… Urges Rivers Govt to assent to Soot Bill By Paul Williams As people in over 150 countries marked the World Environment Day on 5 June 2022, the Rivers Network of NGOs RINNGOS/CEDSI Nigeria has stressed that “collective action” is necessary to “create the transformative environmental change we need, so …

By Our Correspondent Six Judiciary correspondents were on Tuesday detained for over two hours on the order of Justice Chizoba Orji of the High Court, of the Federal Capital Territory, sitting at Maitama. Justice Orji insisted that journalists must get permission before they could cover her court. Consequently, she ordered …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The deputy governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has felicitated with his boss, Governor Douye Diri, as he turned 63 on Saturday. In a congratulatory message signed by his senior special assistant on Media, Mr. Doubara Atasi, the deputy governor, said Senator Diri’s 63rd birthday …

Renowned industrialist and philanthropist, Chief (Engr.) Grant Offor, has awarded scholarships to some indigent students of Ikwerre extraction, to assist them complete their academic session at the Nigerian Law School. This is as the industrialist, who had instituted an annual scholarship award to indigent students studying other courses, aside from …

A pro-democracy and environmental rights advocacy group, Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy and Development (FENRAD), has joined people all over the world in celebrations marking the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) 2022. In a release made available to our reporter, FENRAD’s executive director, Comrade Nelson Nnanna Nwafor, noted that …

An industrialist, Chief Engr. Grant Offor, recently brought succor to the people of Umuagubia and Umuolo communities in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers, when he presented the two ancient communities with two giant transformers. In a chat with newsmen later in Port Harcourt, Offor said he decided to provide …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa has restrained the Federal Government from issuing licences for marginal oilfields in the Niger Delta pending determination of a pending suit. Some Ijaw leaders had in 2020 approached the court seeking to halt licensing of marginal oilfields located in …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, office in Bayelsa State, has cried out over the lack of funding to enable it carry out its intervention projects and programmes towards achieving its objectives in the state. The senior special assistant, SSA, and state focal person on SDGs, Dr. …

Against the backdrop of the continued presence of soot in the atmosphere, a non-governmental organization in Rivers State, the Rivers Network of NGOs (RINNGOS), has launched an air quality tracker app and website, as well as an advocacy campaign, in a bid to ensure cleaner air in the state. In …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Gender advocacy groups, the Do Foundation International and the Hilarity World Foundation, have opened a domestic Violence Clinic in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, so as to provide medical, legal and psycho-socio support to victims of domestic and sexual violence in the state. According to the …