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By our Reporter The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has screened and confirmed thirteen commissioner-nominees for the State Executive Council. This was at a sitting presided over by the speaker, Rt Hon Abraham Ingobere. Although the state governor, Senator Douye Diri, had sent the names of 14 nominees to the …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi Eminent Itsekiri leaders have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to comply with court verdicts on the delimitation and review of Warri Federal Constituency, and dismantle illegal ward structure in the constituency. The leaders raised strong objections against the proposed execution of the delimitation and review …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The chairman-elect of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Hon. Target Segibo, has alleged that the prevalent security challenges in some communities of the council area could be traced to parental failure, and frivolous lifestyle of children and wards involved in crime and criminality. …

… Inaugurates NDU’s Digital Library By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and other international oil companies (IOCs) to prioritize the completion of their projects in the state. Governor Diri made …

By Pius Dukor As Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a non governmental organisation celebrates her 20 years of outstanding impact in the Niger Delta, the group harps on the importance of tree planting to mitigate climate change. Addressing journalists at the tree planting site, SDN’s Dr. Samuel Paul maintained that planting …

By Kelechi Nwaucha Youth restiveness and agitations in the Niger Delta have refused to lay to rest despite Federal Government’s efforts and initiatives aimed at assuaging the feelings of youths in the region. The seeming inadequacy of these initiatives, according to publisher of the National Point Newspaper, Chief Constance Meju, …

By Pius Dukor Against the backdrop of environmental degradation, contamination of underground water and continuous gas flares in the Niger Delta, the country director of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), Florence Ibok-Abassey, has said that what the region needs now is a total scientific assessment to take care of the litany …

By Our Reporter IPC’s Centre for the Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ), has called for “a concerted effort towards the immediate release of Channels TV reporter, Joshua Rogers, who was whisked away to an unknown place by gunmen. According to our correspondent, Rogers was abducted around 9p.m on Thursday …

A Port Harcourt based linguist and Indigenous Language advocate, Mr. Josiah Egbilika has called for the adoption, acceptance and recognition of the word, ‘Endoglossophobia’, and its inclusion in the next production of various dictionaries online or hardcopies. Speaking in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Wednesday, Mr. Egbilika stated …

A Port Harcourt-based linguist and Indigenous Language advocate, Mr. Josiah Egbilika, has called on the United Nations (UN) and other world bodies to enact policies that will enforce the inclusion of African Language Study in the educational curriculum of Western countries. The linguist, who spoke in Port Harcourt, the Rivers …