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By Ehichioya Ezomon  He cuts a familiar figure and preaches a familiar message! Two-time governorship candidate of rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2016 and 2020, respectively, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, claims he’s a detribalised, pan-Edo politician, who sees Edo State as one family, and seeks …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps, Mrs. Okpalifo Obiageli Charity, has said the benefits of keeping the NYSC scheme outweighs the calls for its scrapping by some groups due to security challenges being experienced today in Nigeria. Mrs. Okpalifo, who made this …

By Young Erhiurhoro The Urhobo as an ethnic group in Nigeria is a blessed land with many natural resources like oil, gas, cash crops, food crops, timber and other forest products. Many communities within the group are also blessed with rivers and rivulets, comprising many marine products. All these resources …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Youth Wing worldwide has condemned a statement, allegedly made by the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), against the rumoured appointment of a retired Urhobo military officer as the coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to replace …

… Back Tinubu on Joint Security Task Force By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Nigerians based in the United States of America and United Kingdom, under the aegis of the United Nigerians for True Federalism (UNTF), North America Chapter, have attributed the worrisome rate of crime and criminality in the Federal Capital …

. … Accuses Tinubu of Playing Politics with Health of Ijaw People By Odie Ramon, Yenagoa A group, the Good Life For Ijaw People (GLFIP), has slammed the Federal Government over the delay in the appointment of a substantive medical director for the Federal Medical Center,Yenagoa in Bayelsa State. According …

By Mandy Tina United States of America-based Ogoni advocacy groups, Centre for Democracy, Human Rights, and Anti-Corruption (CDHRAC) and the National Union of Ogoni Students (NUOS) International USA, have called for a referendum among Ogoni people, home and abroad, to determine whether oil production can resume in Ogoniland. The groups …

By Mandy Tina Former commissioner for Urban and Physical Planning Rivers State, Dr. Reason Onya, has expressed optimism that after distraction arising from the legal battle and political crisis being faced by Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers people will experience dividends of democracy. Onya, who reacted to the political situation in …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Loyalists of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and youths from the Niger Delta region have raised an alarm over “plans by some politicians and presidential aides to embarrass and mock the duo of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), His Excellency, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike CON, …

By Pius Dukor Many have described the game of Polo as for only rich and well to do in the society. Reacting on the sidelines of the just concluded Polo tournament in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Mr. Adokiye Ikpoki, the managing director of Chairborne Global Services dismissed the …