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Wife of the secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mrs Preye Konbowei Benson, has enjoined wives to see their husbands as their best friends, adding that women ought to be the mirrors to their husbands to guide and help them to become great achievers. Speaking during a women’s day programme …
Read More »More Victims Continue to Demand Compensation at Rivers EndSARS Panel
By Joel Anekwe The flurry of demands for financial compensation from police over alleged killing of and brutality against the populace has continued at the Rivers State Commission of Inquiry on police brutality. Many victims had from the opening day of the panel sitting made demands of huge sums of …
Read More »Wike Plans to Spend N448.6bn in 2021
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 …
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