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By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt  Food Sovereignty and Agro-ecology have been identified as viable solutions to the problems of hunger, food insecurity and climate change in Africa. This was as non-governmental organization, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), organized a media training in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Women lawyers in Bayelsa State have welcomed thirty new female wigs into the legal profession with a charge on decent dressing and call on the Federal Government to create a deliberate policy to absorb the rising numbers of lawyers graduating from the law schools. The women …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Maj Gen. Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd), Friday paid a visit to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as a follow-up on the “pending 2017 Presidential Directive to employ 350 exceptional graduates” of the programme into the Federal Civil …

By Lilian Nkem-Worluh Women, drawn from all the wards in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State, have staged a protest to the state’s Government House to register their displeasure over what they described as “an assault and intimidation of the leader of Etche legislative assembly, Hon. Cynthia Nwala.” They …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Traditional rulers and key stakeholders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have faulted the claims of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on the reasons why the executive director of Operations and Technical of the Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, TSSNL, Captain …

By Young E. Freeborn The Methodist Church Nigeria, Archdiocese of Kaduna, on Sunday January 22, 2023 ordained Rt. Rev’d Nkechi Nwosu as the church’s first female bishop in Nigeria.  Rt Rev’d Nwosu was formally enthroned as the Bishop of Jos by the Archbishop of Kaduna, Most Rev’d Joseph Nnonah at …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to petition the Bayelsa State Government and Governor Douye Diri to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to explain the spending of N3 billion that accrued to each of the eight local government areas of the state from …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Rivers State council, have urged stakeholders to commit themselves to a peaceful election in the state come February 25 and March 11, 2023. The need for a change from the violent narrative that …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Leaders of the Third Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) have congratulated Mr. Mathew Asime Dango on his appointment as the special adviser on Youths to the new managing director of NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku. A statement signed by Elaye Slaboh, Princewill Kotingo, Victor Occasion and Davison Suboh, …

By Ukandi Christopher The Institute Superior de Communication Republic of Benin has conferred the Honorary Plural Doctoral Award on three eminent Nigerians for their “philanthropic activities, business acumen and service to humanity.” The decorations of Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, took place in December, 2022 at the Amatu Braide Hall, University …