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By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa A group, Stakeholders Alliance for corporate responsibility (SACA) has faulted the Nigerian government and multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta over health hazards associated with exploitation and exploration activities. Speaking to Journalists at the inauguration of the group’s Project Management Committtee (PMC), the executive …

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the new leadership of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) to build linkages at home and abroad in order to successfully address the Ijaw nation’s challenges. Governor Diri, who expressed confidence in the capacity of the new leadership to effectively champion the cause …

By Ebube Egbufor Rivers State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Chief Chinwendu Chukwu, has called for aggressive youth empowerment using the NYSC skills acquisition model so as to help curb issues of separatist agitations and insecurity. Chukwu made the call Friday while presiding over the 2021 Batch …

The executive chairman of the Bayelsa State Post Primary School Board, Chief Millionaire Asangba, newly appointed by Governor Douye Diri (PPSB), has said that the reason why he redeployed the board members to various departments was to ensure a smooth running of the board under his administration. He stated this …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The panel of inquiry sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has ordered the Nigerian Police to pay the family of late Victor Ezekwueme, whom the police ordered to jump  into the river at gun point, the sum of one hundred million naira (N100,000,000) as compensation. Justice Young …

By Joel Anekwe Civil Society Organisations CSOs in Rivers State have condemned the acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on his charge to policemen in the South East and South South “to take the war against insurgency to the camps of bandits and deal with them ruthlessly,” noting …

By Amos Odhe, Asaba  Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday said that the judiciary in the state had been accorded full autonomy in line with the law. Okowa made this known in Asaba on Tuesday when he received the chief judge of the state, Justice Marshal Umukoro, who …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said that the hitch-free conduct of the recent Ijaw National Congress (INC) election indicates that Nigeria can hold rancour-free national elections. Governor Diri made this known on Friday during the inauguration of the new INC leadership at the Ijaw …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The interim administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Miland Dikio (rtd), has charged youths of the Niger Delta to deploy civilized approach in the course of their agitation for the development of the oil rich region. The Amnesty boss gave the advice while speaking tojournalists …

The remains of the late Justice Tayo Kilegbu Osu (rtd) was committed to Mother Earth last Saturday at his hometown, Joinkrama (3) in the Ahoada West council area of Rivers State. Speaking with journalists after the interment, the late jurist’s eldest son, Mr Ukari Osu, relived the bereaved family’s times …