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By Pius Dukor As part of its core mandates, which include the clean up of oil polluted sites, provision of portable drinking water, among others, the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) has concluded a livelihood training programme for youths in Ogoni, with some earning automatic employment with Dana Airline. In …

By our Reporter Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has implored leaders of the state whose businesses are outside Bayelsa to also invest at home in order to grow the state’s economy. Governor Diri gave the charge on Saturday during the traditional marriage ceremony of Initeme Princess-Adukeh, daughter of …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has said that it has commenced moves to modernise the Igbo Apprenticeship System, an economic system that has helped in the economic empowerment of the people. This is as the organization has vowed to continue to protect the interest of …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Renowned gospel artiste and co-founder of the Voice of the Cross gospel band, which started in the 70s and 80s, Apostle Dr. Lazarus Chukwuoma, popularly known as Brother Lazarus, is going to be the guest artiste at the forthcoming Yenagoa Miracle Crusade/Ministers’ Conference. The crusade/conference is …

… to Partner CSOs Against Environmental Terrorism By our Reporter Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has called for the recruitment of more indigenes of the state into the Federal Fire Service to meet the right quota of employment allocated to the state. Governor Diri made the call at the …

By our Reporter “As a result of repeated complaints from beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) that they had not received their stipends for the month of March, one of our banks has explained the reason for the abnormal delay.” This was contained in a press statement signed by …

By our Reporter Science lecturers and members of the academia from Nigerian universities have urged President Bola Tinubu to revisit policies frustrating scientific innovation and economic development. The university lecturers, in a communique issued at the end of the First Annual Faculty of Science International Conference held at the Academic …

By our Reporter The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has screened and confirmed thirteen commissioner-nominees for the State Executive Council. This was at a sitting presided over by the speaker, Rt Hon Abraham Ingobere. Although the state governor, Senator Douye Diri, had sent the names of 14 nominees to the …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi Eminent Itsekiri leaders have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to comply with court verdicts on the delimitation and review of Warri Federal Constituency, and dismantle illegal ward structure in the constituency. The leaders raised strong objections against the proposed execution of the delimitation and review …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The chairman-elect of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Hon. Target Segibo, has alleged that the prevalent security challenges in some communities of the council area could be traced to parental failure, and frivolous lifestyle of children and wards involved in crime and criminality. …