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By Paul Williams Mangroves occupy 75 percent of the world’s tropical coast line. Stretching for several kilometres in the Niger Delta, they noticeably serve as one of Nature’s carbon sinks. This potential for cleansing the Earth and sequestering atmospheric carbon, last Friday in Port Harcourt, became the subject of a …

By Young E. Freeborn The Senate has sat for the first reading of a bill that recommends a fine of N50,000 to parents who default in providing their children with primary and secondary school education. The Red Chamber also recommended free meals for every child in the country. The bill …

… Launches ‘Operation Eagle Eye’ against Non-Compliance By Amos Odhe The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Rivers Command, has domesticated the quick clearance of passport backlog, assuring that the Minister of Interior’s directive “will be strickly adhered.” According to our correspondent, the directive by the Acting Comptroller General, Caroline Wuraola Adepoju, …

… Fixes November 1 for Appearance of Witnesses By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Friday cautioned the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Nigerian Agrip Oil Company (NAOC) against attempts to delay hearing in the suit filed by an Ijaw youth activist, …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said political opponents, talking about industrialisation of the state, have no idea what it takes to achieve it. Diri said rather than politicise it, his administration was laying a solid foundation to position the state for industrialisation …

By Amos Odhe The national chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme (Phase 3), general Elaye Slaboh, and his national/state excutives have paid a courtesy visit to the member representing Ahoada West in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Sokari Goodboy Sokari, in his office in Port Harcourt.  The purpose of the meeting, our …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa As part of the timetable for the Bayelsa State off-circle governorship election slated for November 11, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented a comprehensive voters’ register to all the political parties that will feature candidates at the poll, recording a total of 1,056,862 …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, and his Osun State counterpart, Senator Ademola Adeleke, have commended the passion of the late Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha for the development of the Niger Delta state and the Ijaw nation as a whole. Both governors, who eulogised the …

By Ebube Egbufor Amadabo of Finima in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chief Dagogo Lambert Brown, has expressed happiness over the recent High Court judgement in favour of Finima, the host community to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) over the accruable benefits and entitlements owed them by the …

  By Young E. Freeborn, Asaba Delta State governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori recently directed that workers be promoted as and when due, with payment of necessary financial obligations, to avoid piling up of promotion arrears.  Oborevwori gave the directive when he received the judges of the state judiciary, led …