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By Joel Anekwe With the inauguration of a 7-man committee to revitalise some dormant health institutions in the state, the Rivers State government on Wednesday demonstrated its commitment to match words with action as it announced plans to revive health facilities in the state. The Implementation committee, chaired by the …
Read More »NASS Committee Visits Ogoni Cleanup Sites, Urges Speedy, Transparent Process
… As ERA Recommends 20% of Remediation Funds for Community Devt By Joel Anekwe The joint National Assembly Committee on Ecology and Climate Change on Wednesday visited some of the oil polluted sites in Ogoniland where remediation work is ongoing, with a call on the Hydro Carbon Pollution Remediation Project …
Read More »Diri Faults NEMA’s Report, Insists Entire Bayelsa Is Flood Prone
Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to correct the misconception that only three local government areas suffer from flooding in the state. Diri, who stated this when officials of the agency paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa, declared the …
Read More »Bayelsa Assembly Denies ‘Impeachment Plot,’ Passes Vote of Confidence on Speaker
Members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly Tuesday denied alleged impeachment plot against the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Abraham Ngobere, declaring absolute confidence in his leadership. According to the Assembly members, the alleged claim that the Speaker, Abraham Ngobere, absconded with the mace to avoid being impeached is a figment …
Read More »Ogoni Elders Score HYPREP Low, Demand Restructuring of Remediation Body
By Joel Anekwe Gbo Kabaari, a forum of Ogoni elders and leaders has scored Hydro Carbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) low, and called for a comprehensive overhaul, and restructuring across all levels of the agency’s current structure. The chairman of the group, Senator Bennett Birabi, who spoke to journalists in …
Read More »Mechanic Village Inferno: Bayelsa Govt Sets up Probe as Victims Count Losses
Mechanic Village Inferno: Bayelsa Govt Sets up Probe … Non Indigenes Group, Monarchs Visit Site The Bayelsa State Government says it has constituted a committee to investigate the cause of the fire outbreak that gutted some parts of the Mechanic Village along Imiringi Road in Yenagoa. Governor Douye Diri, who …
Read More »Media Organizations Urged to Ensure Accurate Reportage
Media houses in Bayelsa State have been urged to ensure that the public is properly informed about government policies and programs. The state’s commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Hon Ayiba Crowder Aduba, gave the charge during his maiden tour of state-owned media houses in Yenagoa. According to him, the media plays …
Read More »MCIU Launches Entrepreneurship, Innovation Centre
By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri The Ibru village and the entire Agbarha-Otor kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was recently a beehive of academic activities as the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University (MCIU) launched the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre on September 6, 2020. This was as part …
Read More »Labour, Rivers Govt on War Path over ‘High Handedness, Insensitivity to Workers’ Welfare’
… NLC, TUC Slates Sept 8 for ‘Peaceful Protest’ By Joel Anekwe Organised labour in Nigeria has given notice to the Rivers State government that it would no longer entertain industrial tyranny and state sponsored violence and terrorism against workers and citizens by the state government. To this end the …
Read More »CJN Harps on Infrastructure, Judicial Officers’ Welfare for Quick Dispensation of Justice
By Joel Anekwe The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, says adequate welfare for judicial officers and requisite infrastructure are important for quick dispensation of justice. Justice Muhammad made the remark at the commissioning of 20 four bedroom duplexes built for judges of Rivers origin serving both in the state …
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