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Media houses in Bayelsa State have been urged to ensure that the public is properly informed about government policies and programs. The state’s commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Hon Ayiba Crowder Aduba, gave the charge during his maiden tour of state-owned media houses in Yenagoa. According to him, the media plays …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri The Ibru village and the entire Agbarha-Otor kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was recently a beehive of academic activities as the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University (MCIU) launched the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre on September 6, 2020. This was as part …

… NLC, TUC Slates Sept 8 for ‘Peaceful Protest’  By Joel Anekwe Organised labour in Nigeria has given notice to the Rivers State government that it would no longer entertain industrial tyranny and state sponsored violence and terrorism against workers and citizens by the state government. To this end the …

By Joel Anekwe The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, says adequate welfare for judicial officers and requisite infrastructure are important for quick dispensation of justice. Justice Muhammad made the remark at the commissioning of 20 four bedroom duplexes built for judges of Rivers origin serving both in the state …

Aherhoke Okioma, Yenagoa The commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Bayelsa State, Dr. Iti Orugbani, has said that tourism can boost the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state as well as create job opportunities, and has the potential to be one of the key pillars on which the economic revival …

… A Call to Sheathe Our Swords By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri Evwreni kingdom, without doubt is a great kingdom in the Urhobo ethnic nationality of Delta State and even Nigeria at large.  Evwreni is a great kingdom in Urhobo land because it has produced great men and women in different …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri The Unenurhie community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was recently in festive celebrations as a retired senior Navy officer and indigene of the community, Mr. Solomon Akpososo, was conferred with the revered Unugbedjor traditional chieftaincy title of the Ohworhu cultural festival. The …

A former deputy governor of Bayelsa State and aspirant to represent Bayelsa West senatorial district, on the platform  of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Peremobowei Ebebi, and Hon. Abel Ebifemowei, aspirant for Bayelsa Central senatorial district, have been declared winners of the party primaries. The election which was conducted …

The Federal Medical Centres in Yenagoa and Yola have underwritten the cost of surgical procedure to separate a set of Siamese twins born to an indigent couple in Nembe, Bayelsa. Dr Dennis Alagoa, chief medical director of FMC Yenagoa said while receiving the babies on arrival at Bayelsa International Airport …

No fewer than twenty-six youths have recently benefited from a skill acquisition training/capacity building programme organized by the Heritage Oil Services Ltd, Warri, Delta State for Cluster 3 under OML 30. Cluster 3 comprises the three oil producing communities of Evwreni, Unenurhie and Uwheru under the Oil Mining License (OML) …