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By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri A word class socio-cultural organization and non-governmental organisation, Atamu Social Club of Nigeria, has ended a finishing school program at Ughelli town, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State with over seventy participants in attendance. The event, which was held at an events centre, …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  The Bayelsa state governor, Senator Douye Diri, has suspended the chairman of an unnamed government agency or board (name withheld) whose statutory tenure would end in 2021. According to a source, the board chairman, though a People Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, was allegedly involved in anti-party politics and …

… Command Probes Allegation By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa An operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), serving at the Bayelsa State Command (names withheld) has allegedly defiled two sisters, aged between 12 and 10. Our reporter gathered that the NSCDC operative, who is attached to an oil surveillance …

… Set to Deploy Protests, Legal Action to Get Shops By Joel Anekwe  Members of the Mile 1 Market Shop Owners Association have rejected the proposal that the available shops at the recently commissioned phase 2 of the Rumuwoji Market, popularly known as the Mile 1 market, would be balloted …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Authority (BESA) has arrested forty-two persons for violating the law which prohibits movements of unauthorized persons from 7am to 10 am of every last Saturday of the month, in the bid for individuals and corporate bodies to clean their surroundings and …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The organised Labour in Bayelsa has urged the new government in the state to offset the outstanding January salary of some workers. The unions, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) gave the advice in separate interviews with journalists on Tuesday in …

The Presidential Amnesty Programme, through its Rivers State Liaison Office, has undertaken the provision of Commodity Shop/Starter Pack empowerment items to beneficiaries of the programme. This as coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo, has said that the empowerment starter pack, which is meant to enable them …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), subsidiary of US firm ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri It’s widely believed, especially among sociologists that, once you know the causes of a problem, then it’s very much easy to proffer solutions or solve such a problem. In fact, such a problem is already half-way solved. This is why our elders say, ‘There is no …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri The people of Unenurhie community, Evwreni kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State have commemorated the death of one of their own, late Mr. Charles Oyovwe Obegor, after he was gruesomely murdered by some irate youths during a leadership crisis that rocked the …