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Oxfam and Kebetkache Women Development Resource Centre have organized a one day Exchange meeting on participatory Budgeting, Needs Assessment and Fair Taxation in Port Harcourt. The meeting had in attendance community-based organizations drawn from Enugu, Cross Rivers, Delta and Rivers states. Executive director of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource, Emem …

WThe West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP Nigeria) has called for more women in governance. The group made the call during a one-day interactive round table meeting with critical stakeholders on women, peace and security in Rivers State. The WANEP Nigeria coordinator, Briget Osakwe, through head of program, WANEP-Nigeria, Patience …

By Joel Anekwe  Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has advised top military personnel not to allow themselves to be used by politicians, because security suffers when politicians influence military operations.  Speaking during a courtesy visit by the new general officer commanding 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, General Felix Agugo, …

By Joel Anekwe  The Rivers State Police Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, has said that an insecure environment scares away investors and consequently gives rise to poverty, criminality and underdevelopment. He said that insecurity in a society is a function of disobedience to law and order adding that “it is …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Members of Aghoro 1 community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Friday berated the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) for short-changing them. They criticised the oil firm for arbitrarily determining the compensation figure for the May 17, 2018 spill in the …

A pastor’s wife, Mrs Charity Charles Oghu, has accused the Gateway International Church, a Port Harcourt based Pentecostal church, of intimidating her husband and causing his arrest by the Police over a parcel of land. Mrs Charity Oghu also alleged that Gateway Church is responsible for the destruction of property …

The Revival of Life Prophetic Ministries aka Home of Success will next week celebrate three years of anniversary of God’s faithfulness towards the growth and spiritual upliftment of the ministry. According to a release made available by the church, activities marking the event kicks off on Thursday, December 5, 2019, …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Political and traditional rulers from Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have commended Governor Henry Seriake Dickson for appointing several indigenes from the area into his government. The leaders, who gave the commendation during a solidarity visit to the governor at his official residence on …

… Deny Plans to Defect By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Sixteen out of the nineteen Peoples Democratic Party members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly have passed a vote of confidence on the state governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson. In an interview with newsmen in Yenagoa, Speaker of the Assembly, …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused the All Progress Congress (APC) of using former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to legitimise illegality during the just concluded November 16 gubernatorial poll. Governor Dickson stated this during a world press briefing held three …