… State Most Impacted in Nigeria, Diri Insists The United Nations has described the flood disaster in Bayelsa State as a crisis of major proportion that deserves attention. The UN Resident and Humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria and representative of the secretary general, Mr. Matthias Schmale, stated this on Saturday when …
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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Government has charged community leaders in the state to stop interfering with the distribution of relief materials meant for designated IDP camps located in their communities. The state Commissioner for Environment and Chairman of the state Flood Management and Mitigation Taskforce, Hon Iselema Gbaranbiri, …
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By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The Prince Oghenerukevwe Okifo Foundation (POOF), a popular non-governmental organisation in Delta State has donated relief materials worth millions of naira to the three different IDP camps created by the state government at Evwreni and Uwheru towns in Ughelli North Local Government Area, and Ewhu town …
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… Calls for Peaceful Polls By Emmanuel Ovundah The general overseer of Deeper life Bible Church worldwide Pastor (Dr.) William Folorunso Kumuyi has advised Nigerians to embrace peace before, during and after the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Briefing journalists in Bori, headquarters of Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State on …
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By Ovundah Emmanuel Connected Development (CODE), one of the leading civil society organizations in Africa, has urged the Rivers State government to address infrastructural decay and deficit impeding development in the state, especially in the rural and oil producing communities. Rivers State lead for CODE, Evelyn Williams, gave the charge …
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By Ovundah Emmanuel No fewer than 26 passengers escaped death on Saturday after to two fiber boats collided and capsized in the Mgbudohia/Eagle Island/Agip River area of Rivers State. Sources told our correspondent that no life was lost in the accident, which occurred in the morning hours of the day. …
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By Young E. Freeborn, Warri As the 2022/2023 academic session gradually resumes at tertiary institutions across the country, parents of intending students seeking admission have cried out over the “exorbitant fees” being charged by various institutions in the country. In a chat with our correspondent, one of such parents, who …
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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Ex-militant leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have petitioned the National Security Adviser, Major General Mohammed Babagana Monguno (rtd.), over an alleged “attempt by the interim administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu, to scuttle an ongoing …
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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State government has called on the Federal Government to work closely with flood prone states in the planning and implementation of feasible measures to check the menace of flooding in the country. The deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the call while visiting flood …
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By Paul Williams The week-long African Women’s Climate Assembly has ended in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with a call for an end to gas flare and other extractive industry activities that impact negatively on the climate. For four days, October 17 to 20, 2022, over 150 women activists from 14 countries …
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