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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 …
Read More »Bayelsa Canvases S’South, S’West Regional Cooperation on Tourism
Bayelsa State government has proposed a South South, South West regional cooperation for the development and promotion of tourism, with the hope that the initiative will receive more political and economic attention from key stakeholders in both geopolitical regions, especially in the context of globalization and regionalization. This position was …
Read More »Jonathan, Ogbia Monarchs Excited over Appointment of Bayelsa-born VC at Otuoke Varsity
Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has congratulated the newly appointed vice chancellor of the Federal University of Otuoke (FUO) in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Prof Teddy Charles Adias. In a congratulatory letter dated 11 November, 2020, Jonathan described the new vice chancellor as a true …
Read More »Diri Directs Payment of Outstanding Cash Reward to Bayelsa Athletes, Administrators
Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has directed the immediate release of outstanding cash reward to the state athletes and sports administrators that participated in the last National Sports Festival in Abuja. The immediate past administration, led by Chief Seriake Dickson, had made the pledge as a reward to the …
Read More »MOSIEND Worried over ‘Unaccounted’ Amnesty Expenditures
… Plans Youth Leadership Training By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa On the heels of a stakeholders summit held in Yenagoa Tuesday by the interim coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Col. Miland Dixon Dikio, the leadership of the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality of the Niger Delta, …
Read More »Ijaw Youths Council Condemns Attack on Dickson’s Home
… Calls on Security Agencies to ‘Fish out Perpetrators’ By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Ijaw Youths Council Worldwide has condemned the attack on the country home of the former governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, at Toru Orua, and the killing of an inspector of Police by suspected …
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