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PIB: Diri Tasks Reps, Calls for Niger Delta Cleanup

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has called on members of the House of Representatives to expedite action on passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), noting that this will correct some of the injustices faced by oil producing states. Governor Diri made the call on Tuesday when members of …

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Delta: Woman Stabs Husband to Death in Ohoror Community

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Ohoror community in Uwheru kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was recently thrown into pandemonium and mourning as a young woman (name withheld) in her prime stabbed her husband (name also withheld) to death. Narrating the ugly incident to our correspondent, one …

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Bayelsa Monarch Honours Lawmaker, Others with Chieftaincy Titles

The Ekowe Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was agog penultimate Saturday as the community’s civic centre was filled to the rafters as the people came in their numbers to celebrate the epochal and historic conferment of chieftaincy titles on four “messianic leaders” by His Royal Highness …

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Umahi, Ibeto, Odah are behind Effium Massacre ~ Group

A group, Ezza-Effium Consultative Assembly (ECA), has accused Governor David Umahi of “conniving with his business ally,” chief executive officer of Ibeto group, Chief Cletus Ibeto, and the Ohaukwu Council chairman. Barr Clement Odah, “to exterminate the people of Ezza-Effium in Effium Community in order to have unhindered and smooth …

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