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  … My Administration Doesn’t Play Politics with Development ~ Gov Diri By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Thursday, inaugurated phase two of the newly-completed Glory Drive dual carriageway, a 10.2-kilometer road project constructed by the Governor Douye Diri administration. The road, which stretches …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Rotary Club of Oxbow Lake, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Yenagoa Sunshine, and with support from the Partners for Peace (P4P) and the West African Network for Peace (WANEP), held a ‘Peace Awareness Seminar’ on September 21, 2023 as part of activities to …

By Amos Odhe President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation, NWF, Daniel Igali has heaped praises on Odunayo Adekuoroye following her automatic qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics in France. Hon. Igali in a statement through the NWF media assistant, Promise Okotoko, on Friday, lauded the performance of Adekuoroye at the …

The second edition of the Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA), to be held in Lagos, Nigeria from September 24 to 28, 2023, will bring together women from fourteen countries across Central and West Africa, under the theme, ‘African Women Unite for Climate Justice, Reparations and Development Alternatives.’ This follows the success …

… Insists on ‘Decentralized Award of Pipeline Surveillance Contract’ By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Ex-militants from the six states of the Niger Delta region, under the aegis of the Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters of Niger Delta (SEFFND), have dismmised as “false” and ” sponsored blackmail” the claim that the leader of …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, has described Bayelsa state as the second poorest state in Nigeria, with 88 percent, after Sokoto State with 95 percent index. Peter Obi said Bayelsa is not supposed to be among the poorest state with all the billions …

Members of the Gist Newspaper and Magazine Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Rivers State Council, have been charged to keep to the standard of journalism practice.  State Chairman of the union, Mr. Stanley Job Stanley who was speaking at the inauguration of the chapel in Port Harcourt on Monday …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Key chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, including the party’s Youth leader, Hon. Nunieh Odede, have dumped the party in favour of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva. In a handwritten letter on Monday September 17, Hon. …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Arising from an enlarged stakeholders’ meeting of the 20 communities and 5 political wards of Ogbia Constituency 1, a formal motion for a vote of confidence was moved by Chief Ebiango Okoba Egain, former chairman of Ogbia Local Government Area, and seconded by Chief Bright Nathan. …

… As DG Prosperity Cup Assures of ‘Good Representation’ at Africa Youth Cup in Cape Verde By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Dreams Football Academy has emerged winner of the first edition of the Governor Douye Diri Under 18 Invitational Football Tournament. Playing in the final of the competition on Saturday afternoon …