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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, says there are indications that the results of the November 16 Bayelsa State gubernatorial election were manipulated. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared David Lyon, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s exercise, as winner of …

Indigenous oil and gas firm, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Aiteo), has again raised concerns on the recent spate of sustained attacks on the key national oil infrastructure in its asset base, the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL). In a release by Ndiana Matthew, the company …

… Call on US, UK to Place Travel Ban on Perpetrators By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The John Pofi Foundation, working in collaboration with the United States Nigeria Law Group (USNLG) and the Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Electoral Integrity, has demanded for a probe of the sponsors of election …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Senator Douye Diri, gubernatorial candidate of the People Democratic Party in the November 16 election in Bayelsa State, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare him winner of the election as the result declared in favour of the All Progressives Congress’s David Lylon …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Peoples Democratic Party’s twenty-year rule of Bayelsa State has been truncated with the defeat of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Douye Diri, by that of the All Progressive Congress (APC), David Lyon. Lyon had been taunted as lacking the experience and knowledge by the ruling people’s …

… Approves FG’s N10.069bn Refund to Kogi By Paul Williams, Abuja The Senate has summoned the comptroller general of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), over his directive stopping supply of petroleum products to filing stations within twenty kilometres of the nation’s borders.  Moving a motion on …

A non-governmental organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, has organized a training programme to enable stakeholders in Ogoni acquire capacity to monitor the clean-up process. Addressing participants at the event, Kebetkache’s executive director, Emem Okon, said her organization, being one of the partners of Catholic Organization for Relief and …

By Joel Anekwe  The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has said that with its delivery of Domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (DLPG) to Stockgap terminal in Port Harcourt, the number of deaths associated with dirty energy sources in Nigeria would significantly reduce.  Making the revelation in Port Harcourt during the delivery …

By Joel Anekwe  Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has threatened that the state government would sue the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) if the interventionist agency does not pay the sum of N400 million owed the state.  The debt is the commission’s counterpart fund for the construction of the …

By David Owei, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State government has announced N14.2 billion as its total inflow from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) for the month of September, 2019. The special adviser to the governor on Treasury, Accounts and Revenue, Mr Timipre Seipulo, stated this while presenting the revenues and …