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By Kelechi Nwaucha Even as the Niger Delta environment and ecosystem continue to face heavy assault from oil pollution and related challenges, OLEGH Centre for Community Development has used the opportunity of this year’s World Environment Day to highlight the vital role women and rural communities play in sustainable land …

By Amos Okioma (Regional Editor) Prince Ebitimi Amgbare, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority says the agency will promote and achieve the shared goals of the International Human Rights Protection Service (Forum), (IHRPS). Prince Amgbare made this known when the forum paid him a courtesy …

By Amos Odie, Yenagoa The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has deployed four cadet pilot trainees for type-rating training at the SIM Aerotraining Ltd in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the implementation of the vocational objectives of the programme. Our correspondent said that the move is in pursuit of PAP’s objectives to …

By our Reporter More teams have qualified for the round of 32 of Nigeria’s biggest grassroots football spectacle, the Bayelsa Governor’s Football Tournament, tagged the Prosperity Cup, after weeks of electrifying football in different centers. The latest team to book a place in the round of 32 of Nigeria’s prestigious …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Government of Bayelsa State has warned individuals and groups parading themselves as proxies of the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), its sister body, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), and similar groups, to collect unauthorized levies and …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Nigeria’s former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan recently in Asaba, the capital of Delta State lauded the state governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, for his credible performance in the state. The former president made the remark during the inauguration of the Delta State High Court Complex …

By Ifeanyi Michael Osuoza Our attention was recently drawn to the advertorial in the Vanguard Newspaper of Monday, June 3, 2024, posted by a group called: “League of Delta Patriots” and titled: “Open Letter To Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori One Year In Office,” which suggested some provocative …

By our Reporter A socio-political and Integrity group, Bayelsa Renaissance has concluded arrangements to drag the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva and the state chairman of the party, Barr. Dennis Otiotio, to court over their alleged involvement in cases of perjury, forgery and election …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt An entrepreneur and real estate investor, My-Ace China has expressed enthusiasm with what he described as the commitment of the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, to reinvent the wheels of investment in the state. China, who is also known as Mayor of Housing, advised the …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Thousands of Ijaw people from Rivers State, the ethnic group of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, under the umbrella of Rivers Ijaw Peoples’ Congress (RIPC) at the weekend, declared that they will remain eternally grateful to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, …