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… Dickson Gets Accolades as Campaign Wins Paris Awards By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The effort to internationalise the campaign against environmental injustice in Bayelsa State has caught the attention of the United Kingdom Parliament with the Africa All Parliamentary Group (AAPPG) holding a session to discuss the impact of oil …
Read More »Brass, Nembe, Southern Ijaw communities Slam Oil Firms over Neglect
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Elders, women and youth leaders from various communities in Brass, Nembe and Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State have bemoaned their neglect by oil companies operating in their areas. The communities also lamented years of oil spillages that have destroyed their environment, aquatic life …
Read More »IOCs’ GMoU, Fraudulent ~ Bayelsa Oil Communities
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Some communities in Bayelsa State have described as fraudulent the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMOU) with international oil companies (IOCs) operating in their areas. The oil-bearing communities located in Yenagoa and Ogbia local government areas made the claim during a stakeholders’ forum organised by the Bayelsa …
Read More »Sylva, Others Shun Ex-Minister’s Declaration, Campaign Office Opening
By David Owei, Yenagoa The leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, Werinipre Seibarugu, Nestor Binabor and other prominent members of the party were conspicuously absent at the formal declaration of Senator Heineken Lokpobiri’s gubernatorial ambition and opening of the campaign office in Yenagoa. However, …
Read More »Monies Voted For NDDC Being Diverted to Fund Elections ~ Dickson
Bayelsa State governor, Hon Seriake Dickson, has said that monies voted for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are being channeled to fund the elections of ruling political parties in the country. A statement by his special adviser on media relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the governor as saying that …
Read More »Navy Urges Media Practitioners to Maintain Professionalism
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Central Naval Command, (CNC) Nigerian Navy, Yenagoa, has urged media practitioners in Bayelsa to maintain professionalism in their reportage, and to balance stories, for the sake of national security and to ensure peace and stability in the Niger Delta region. The Flag Officer Commanding, the …
Read More »NDLEA Arrests 105 Drug Dealers in Bayelsa in 6 Months
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Nigeria Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Bayelsa Command, has arrested 105 persons, while 27.35 kg of illicit drugs were seized in the area between January and June. Bayelsa NDLEA Commander, Mr Abdullahi Abdul, gave the figure at a news briefing to commemorate the International …
Read More »ANA To Immortalize Gabriel Okara
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Denja Abdullahi, has hinted of plans to name a complex in the association’s national secretariat at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, after the late Bayelsa-born poet laureate, Dr. Gabriel Okara. Mr. Abdullahi made this known on the …
Read More »N’Delta Stakeholders Proffer Solutions to Oil Theft, Artisanal Refining
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Stakeholders in the Niger Delta have advocated sustainable and alternative livelihoods as panacea to the increasing problem of oil theft and artisanal refining activities in the region. They made their position known in a communique issued after a one-day roundtable dialogue jointly organised in Port …
Read More »Fingesi Commiserates with Pipeline Victims, Condemns Wike’s ‘Nonchalance’
The candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in the 2019 governorship election in Rivers State, Mr. Victor Fingesi has commiserated with the families of victims of the pipeline explosion at Kom Kom community in Oyigbo Local Government Area. In a statement issued in Port Harcourt by his spokesman, Mr. …
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