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Ebegba Visits Perm Sec, Briefs on NBMA’s Prospects, Programmes

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The director general/chief executive officer of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Olorogun Dr Rufus Ebegba, has led top management and staff of the agency on a working visit to the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Engr. Hassan Musa. The visit, which took place …

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Family Loses 7-Year Old to Auto Crash at Unenurhie

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri What could be described as a ‘Black Monday’ occurred at Unenurhie community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State a few days ago as the family of Mr. and Mrs. Onome Morrison Edafe lost a seven-year old child, Master Richard Edafe Onome, to …

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Only PDP Can Rescue Nigeria ~ Diri

… Governors Must Work Together ~ Wike By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, and his Rivers State counterpart, Chief Nyesom Wike, have described as “bright” the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) producing the next Nigerian president in 2023. The two governors spoke on Monday …

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Ogoni Day: IYC Lashes Wike’s ‘Anti-Ijaw Comments’

The leadership of the pan-Ijaw youth group, Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, has flayed the remarks credited to the governor Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, “against the Ijaw nation.” President of the IYC, Peter Timothy Igbifa, in a statement, on Thursday in Port Harcourt, said it was sad that Wike, while …

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Group Says Igbifa’s Victory is for ‘Growth of Ijaw Nation’

Ijaw Progressive Forum (IPF) has lauded the judiciary for affirming the outcome of Oporoza Elective Convention that produced Dcn. Peter Timothy Igbifa as the duly elected president of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC). The group stated this while congratulating the IYC president following his court victories in two separate suits …

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Onne Customs Generates N188.6bn in 2021

By Ebube Egbufor The Area II command of the Nigeria Customs Service at Onne Port, in Rivers State, has achieved a record breaking collection of N188,643,692,057, from January to December 2021, surpassing the 2020 collection with N69 billion. According to a press statement made available to journalists by the public …

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Bayelsa Dep Gov Goes on Fishing Expedition

… Tasks Leaders on Bonding with Constituents By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa It was a sort of carnival, full of excitement, and fanfare on Sunday, December 2, 2022, when Bayelsa’s deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, led his children on a novelty fishing expedition to River Fircados, at his country home, Ofoni, …

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