As stem cell technology continues to impact healthcare delivery globally, SuperLife’s Team Fusion, the marketing arm of the revolutionary stem cell based health product, SuperLife, has opened office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Dubbed the wonder drug by users in Port Harcourt, SuperLife products, particularly the STC 30, …
Read More »Bayelsa Bye-Elections: 3 Policemen Drown in Southern Ijaw
Three yet to be identified personnel of the Nigeria Police Force have reportedly drowned on their way to Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the incident occurred on the eve of the Saturday senatorial by-election holding across two districts in the state. The deceased …
Read More »Bayelsa West, Central: Police Assure of Hitch-free Election, Deploy 5000 Personnel
The Bayelsa State commissioner of Police, CP Mike Okoli, has assured residents of peaceful and hitch-free Bayelsa West and Central senatorial elections on Saturday, commending the IGP on the deployment of 5000 personnel. This includes units of mobile policemen, to check hoodlums against violence and electoral malpractice. This assurance was …
Read More »See Your Husbands as Best Friends ~ Bayelsa SSG’s Wife
Wife of the secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mrs Preye Konbowei Benson, has enjoined wives to see their husbands as their best friends, adding that women ought to be the mirrors to their husbands to guide and help them to become great achievers. Speaking during a women’s day programme …
Read More »More Victims Continue to Demand Compensation at Rivers EndSARS Panel
By Joel Anekwe The flurry of demands for financial compensation from police over alleged killing of and brutality against the populace has continued at the Rivers State Commission of Inquiry on police brutality. Many victims had from the opening day of the panel sitting made demands of huge sums of …
Read More »Wike Plans to Spend N448.6bn in 2021
By Joel Anekwe Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, Wednesday presented a N448,660,773,476 billion budget, for 2021 fiscal year to the state’s House of Assembly for consideration and approval. Christened: ‘Budget of Recovery and Consolidation,’ the proposal is made up of N305, 894,284.061 for capital expenditure, and N142,776,489,415 – recurrent expenditure, …
Read More »EndSARS: Rivers Commission of Inquiry Receives 171 Petitions
By Joel Anekwe The Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into alleged acts of police brutality held its inaugural sitting on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, with the chairman of the commission, Justice C. Uriri, saying that the commission has received 171 petitions. The petitions are estimated to about the highest …
Read More »Bayelsa Bemoans Drop in Federal Allocation
The Bayelsa State government on Monday lamented the decline in revenues accruing from the federation account while announcing its income and expenditure profile for the months of August, September and October 2020. Presenting a breakdown of the figures in Yenagoa, the commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, disclosed that the …
Read More »South South Reinforce Demand for Restructuring, Fiscal Federalism
… Seeks Control over LGAs, Elections and Judiciary By Joel Anekwe Governors and people of the South-South geopolitical zone have reinforced their demand for restructuring in line with the principle of true federalism, to guarantee peace, security and stability of Nigeria. The people demanded the restructuring of Nigeria in a …
Read More »Yenagoa Shooting: CP Calls for Calm as Patrol Team ‘Taken Into Custody’
Following the recent shooting of three women in Bayelsa State, the state Police Command has identified and taken into custody the patrol team allegedly responsible for the unprovoked attack on innocent women at the Tombia-Etegwe roundabout, Yenagoa. According to the PPRO of Bayelsa State Police command, SP Asinim Butswat, the unfortunate …
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