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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology Port Harcourt (RSCOHSTECH) Alumni, Bayelsa State Chapter, has paid a courtesy visit to the member Representing SILGA Constituency 111 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Deacon Marlon Moses (aka Our Moses). Chairman of the group, …

By Joel Anekwe The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and some civil society organizations (CSOs) in Rivers State have disagreed sharply on the level of work done so far on the clean-up of oil polluted sites in Ogoniland. While HYPREP says that the clean-up has fully commenced, civil society organizations …

The Bayelsa State government has been called upon to wade into the crisis rocking the Kou clan in Ekeremor Local Government Area, so as to avoid it snowballing into a serious conflict in the community. In a petition to the governor, Ekemesowde Taroladei Peters, claimed that with the death of …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa A personnel of the Nigerian Civil Defence and Security Corps on Saturday allegedly shot and killed a 100 level student of the state owned Niger Delta University, Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State. It was  gathered that the NCDSC personnel, according to …

Permanent secretary in charge of the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr. Agiriye Monima Harry, has expressed the hope that the state will be out of polio by the end of this year. This, he said, follows the concerted efforts of the state primary health care board to …

The Amanyanabo of Abonnema, His Gracious Majesty, King (Barr) Disrael Gbobo Bob-Manuel (ii), Owukori (IX), who is also the chairman of Akuku-Toru Council of Traditional Rulers and Chiefs, has said that there will no longer be any form of unrest in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area. King Bob-Manuel made the declaration …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The local government election is expected to hold today, Saturday, in the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State. The Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC), led by its chairman, Chief Remember Ogbe, announced that about 44 political parties would be participating in the election, including …

… Bayelsa Land Is For Development, Not RUGA ~ Dickson By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Former Nigerian head of state, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, has expressed surprise at the fast rate of development of Bayelsa and its capital, Yenagoa, under the leadership of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson. Abdusalami, according to a statement …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to the fight against cancer and other killer diseases in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this in a message at the groundbreaking ceremony and fund raising for the Goldcoast Memorial Center and launch of the Henry Seriake Dickson …

Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Bayelsa State, a non-governmental organization, South South Peace Mission, has embarked on sensitization against pipeline vandalism, cultism, electoral violence and other social ills that are prevalent in the South South of Nigeria. Speaking to journalists before a rally in Yenagoa, national president/Founder of …