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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Political and traditional rulers from Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have commended Governor Henry Seriake Dickson for appointing several indigenes from the area into his government. The leaders, who gave the commendation during a solidarity visit to the governor at his official residence on …

… Deny Plans to Defect By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Sixteen out of the nineteen Peoples Democratic Party members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly have passed a vote of confidence on the state governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson. In an interview with newsmen in Yenagoa, Speaker of the Assembly, …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused the All Progress Congress (APC) of using former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to legitimise illegality during the just concluded November 16 gubernatorial poll. Governor Dickson stated this during a world press briefing held three …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, says there are indications that the results of the November 16 Bayelsa State gubernatorial election were manipulated. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared David Lyon, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s exercise, as winner of …

… Call on US, UK to Place Travel Ban on Perpetrators By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The John Pofi Foundation, working in collaboration with the United States Nigeria Law Group (USNLG) and the Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Electoral Integrity, has demanded for a probe of the sponsors of election …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Senator Douye Diri, gubernatorial candidate of the People Democratic Party in the November 16 election in Bayelsa State, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare him winner of the election as the result declared in favour of the All Progressives Congress’s David Lylon …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Peoples Democratic Party’s twenty-year rule of Bayelsa State has been truncated with the defeat of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Douye Diri, by that of the All Progressive Congress (APC), David Lyon. Lyon had been taunted as lacking the experience and knowledge by the ruling people’s …

… Approves FG’s N10.069bn Refund to Kogi By Paul Williams, Abuja The Senate has summoned the comptroller general of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), over his directive stopping supply of petroleum products to filing stations within twenty kilometres of the nation’s borders.  Moving a motion on …

A non-governmental organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, has organized a training programme to enable stakeholders in Ogoni acquire capacity to monitor the clean-up process. Addressing participants at the event, Kebetkache’s executive director, Emem Okon, said her organization, being one of the partners of Catholic Organization for Relief and …

By Joel Anekwe  Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has threatened that the state government would sue the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) if the interventionist agency does not pay the sum of N400 million owed the state.  The debt is the commission’s counterpart fund for the construction of the …