By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday night met with all the aspirants for president on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at State House, Abuja, urging them to hold consultations, and come up with a formidable candidate before the party holds its primary election on June …
Read More »Diri Commends Buhari for Signing Electoral Act
By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the amended Electoral Act into law. Diri gave the commendation on Thursday during the state executive council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa. A press release by his chief press secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, …
Read More »IYC Warns Against Plots to Scrap NDDC
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has warned that any attempt “by some selfish individuals or group of persons to scrap or merge the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with another agency of government will spell doom for the country.” The lYC in a statement by …
Read More »OML 11: Ogoni Leaders Adopt Wike ‘to Lead Discussion with FG’
By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt Ogoni stakeholders have unanimously agreed that the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, should lead a multi-consultative forum to discuss with the Federal Government on the planned resumption of oil production in OML 11. The stakeholders said the choice of the governor was aimed at preventing saboteurs who may want to adopt divide …
Read More »N’ Delta Women Demand Constitution of NDDC Board, Audit Report
A body of various women groups, activists, community and opinion leaders, and professionals in the Niger Delta, under the aegis of Wailing Women of Niger Delta and Burden Bearers of the Niger Delta advocating for the development of Niger Delta region, said the region and its people “have been taken for granted …
Read More »IYC Blows Hot over Non-Inclusion of Bayelsa in NNPC Road Maintenance Plan
The Central zone of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has expressed its discontentment over the non-inclusion of Bayelsa State in the recent approved construction and rehabilitation of 21 roads by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the six geopolitical zones in the county. Recall that the Federal Executive Council …
Read More »Bayelsa Communities Threaten to Shutdown Agip Facility over GMoU
Aggrieved Isoko speaking Osekwenike, Abuetor and Osifo communities in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Friday threatened to shutdown the Samabiri/Buseni Cluster Location housing nine oil wells, operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), over alleged refusal by the oil giant to keep to the Global Memorandum of …
Read More »Niger Delta Ex-Agitators Root for Dikio’s Confirmation as ‘Substantive Administrator’
The 3rd phase ex-agitators in the Niger Delta have called for the confirmation of Col Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) as the substantive administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). This, they said, is based on the reforms, principles and models, such as Train, Employ and Mentor (TEM), that had been …
Read More »Diri Canvasses Harmonized Salary Structure for Health Workers in Nigeria
… As Jonathan Seeks End Health Workers’ Strike Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, says harmonization of the salary structure of all classes of medical personnel in the country is a panacea to check the unending wage-related industrial crises in the health sector. This was as former Nigerian President, Dr …
Read More »NLNG Train 7, Catalyst For Nigeria’s ‘Decade of Gas’
The recent commencement of construction of Train 7 plant of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural NLNG has been praised by industry experts, especially the out-going managing director and chief executive officer MD/CEO of the company, Engr. Tony Attah as the main catalyst for the achievement of the Federal Government’s “very ambitious …
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