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…As Oyetola Flags Off Marine Safety Sensitization Initiative in Bayelsa Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has again appealed to the Federal Government to make good its promise of supporting the state in developing the Agge Deep Seaport. Governor Diri made the appeal at the flag-off of the Marine Safety …

There was pandemonium Friday morning at the EUI Event Centre in Port Harcourt, venue for the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), a pet project of wife of the president, Mrs Remi Tinubu as women of Rivers State walked out on Mrs Theresa Ibas as she was about addressing them. The programme …

•As CDS Lauds USOSA For Promoting National Unity By Emma Sunday Federal Government College, Ikot-Ekpene and Federal Government Girls College, Ikot Obot Itong (FGC IOI), both of Akwa Ibom State, have emerged overall champions in male and female categories at the just concluded National Sports Carnival for Unity Schools Old Students …

As the world celebrates Workers’ Day today, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Rivers State, has demanded the reinstatement of suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the State Assembly. This is as the State NLC also called for a sober reflection on the plight of workers in the country.  Speaking on …

To ensure speedy detection and management of oil spills in the Niger Delta and other parts of the country, some civil society organisations have demanded an amendment to the Act establishing the Nigeria Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA. The organisations said amendment of the NOSDRA Act to provide …

Prosperity Cup Women’s defending Champions, Niger Delta University Queens have been ousted from Nigeria’s biggest grassroots football spectacle, the Bayelsa Governor’s Football showpiece . In a keenly contested match at the BDGS battle ground, high-scoring Ezuogha Queens defeated defending champions, NDU Queens by a lone goal to progress to the …

….Calls for forensic probe of Shimite Bello’s mysterious death By Amos Odhe. National leadership of the Association of Women Against Gender-Based Violence (AWAGBV) has commended the judiciary for the recent ruling on the death of gospel singer Osinachi Nwachukwu, describing the sentencing of Peter Nwachukwu (Osinachi’s husband) to death by …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa    The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) Federal Polytechnic of Ekowe, Bayelsa State, has embarked on strike over the suspension of check-off dues deduction for members of the union by the management of the institution from January to March 2025. The leaders of the union who thronged …

  Nigeria’s gas company, NLNG, has relaunched one of its key economic empowerment programme, formerly known as Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES), in a bid to spur the growth of small businesses and further empower youths within its over 110 host and pipeline communities in Rivers State. Now known as Vocational, …

By Emma Sunday The South South Democratic Movement (SSDM) has called on the Federal Government, International Oil Companies (IOCs), and all stakeholders to end the systematic marginalization, political exclusion, and environmental injustice in the Niger Delta region. National Publicity Secretary of the group, Dr. Francis David Matthew, made the call …