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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson on Monday called on chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who are engaged in anti-party activities, to retrace their steps for the continued peace and stability of the state. Governor Dickson made the call during the presentation of the party’s …

There was great excitement over the weekend in Ijaw-Kiri, a fishing community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The reason being that residents found a dead whale washed ashore. They immediately rushed home to bring axes, knives and cutlasses, butchering the huge fish, which experts say is an …

… As Bello Plans Truck Transit Park in Rivers The chief executive officers of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) and the Oil & Gas Free Zone Authority of Nigeria (OGFZAN), Onne have agreed to work together to up-scale activities in the maritime and the oil & gas sectors as a …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa As the Bayelsa State Guber election draws near, a group, known as the Bayelsa Grassroot Development Initiative (BGDI), has called upon “a very important personality in the state,” Dr Frankland Oyeins Briyai, to join the race. According to the coordinator of the body, Prof Emiomukumor Augustine, BGDI …

Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Bayelsa State, a non-governmental organization, South South Peace Mission, has embarked on sensitization against pipeline vandalism, cultism, electoral violence and other social ills that are prevalent in the South South of Nigeria. Speaking to journalists before a rally in Yenagoa, national president/Founder of …

… Says PDP has Failed, Goofed As the process towards electing the next governor for Bayelsa State by November 2019 gathers steam, a man of God, Prophet Udeme John Bassey (aka Otimkpu I), has said that the immediate past minister of state for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, would emerge victorious …

Leader of the organized private sector in Rivers State, Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce (PHCCIMA) has thrown its weight behind the Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NDYEP) project, initiated by the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND). PHCCIMA President, Chief Nabil Saleh made this known when PIND’s …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Former special adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Chief Timi Alaibe, has congratulated the former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, on his nomination for ministerial appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari. Alaibe described Sylva’s nomination as …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa In spite the absence of government presence, the people of Yenakan, hometown of ex-minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, witnessed the gathering of other Atissa communities as it played host to the Uge Adiafaa Atissa Yenakan 2019. The Uge Adiafaa Atissa cultural festival is an age long opportunity for …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Ijaw youths under the auspices of Defender of Izon Nation (DIN) on Sunday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to jettison the idea of using Gov. Nyesom Wike to conduct Bayelsa guber primaries. The DIN, an Ijaw pressure group comprising militants and non-militants and known in the …