Month: August 2023

Gov Diri Calls On BYSIEC To Conduct Credible LG Elections

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By Elizabeth Vincent Yenagoa Governor Douye Diri, has charged newly sworn in commissioners of the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC) to conduct free, fair and credible local government election that is acceptable to all political parties. The Governor gave the charge during the swearing-in BSIEC commissioners at the Executive Council Chambers of Government House, Yenagoa. Those sworn in are, Chief Remember Ogbe, Chief Amafini Zipadou and Barr. Marshall Abraham. The governor noted that preparations for the next local government polls would start in earnest and urged the commission to…

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Politics: Appeal Court Didn’t Overturn Gov. Oborevwori’s Election- Delta Govt

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  Delta State Government, Thursday, said the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja did not overturn the election of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori as speculated by the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Ken Pela and his co-travellers. Reacting to a rumour making the rounds that the Appeal Court had declared Mr Ken Pela as Governor of the state, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sir Festus Ahon in Asaba, said the Appeal Court only ordered the tribunal to hear the case. Ahon in the statement said: “We have been inundated…

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News Features: Let Us Rescue Our Africa?

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  By Sunny Awhefeada There is a video that has been making the rounds. It has been forwarded to me again and again to the extent that I have lost count of how many times I have received it. Part of the message contained in the video by a White speaker to a European audience reads, “sub-Saharan Africa has been fundamental to the global prosperity of the advanced countries and Africa has a role to play as a raw material producer. We will not allow sub-Saharan Africa to escape that.…

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APPOINTMENT OF NDDC BOARD: MR. PRESIDENT THANK YOU FOR SETTLING FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF DR SAMUEL OGBUKU

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  The reappointment of Dr Samuel Ogbuku shows clearly the grasp of President Bola Tinubu of the challenges of the oil producing areas of the Niger Delta. The policy direction of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku as enunciated in the last eight months of his leadership must have resonated well with the President’s aspiration for the region which must have led the President to have settled for his leadership. For the NDDC not to be encumbered we urge the President to domicile the NDDC in the office of the secretary to the…

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Bayelsa Dep. Gov Ewhrudjakpo Tasks Legal Practitioners Over Unethical Conduct

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By Elizabeth Vincent/ Yenagoa Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has called on practitioners of the legal profession in Nigeria to rise and launder the image of the profession as its nobility was fast eroding.   Speaking when a joint delegation of the Sagbama and Yenagoa Branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the leadership of the Young Lawyers Forum, Sagbama Chapter paid him separate courtesy visits in Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday, Senator Ewhrudjakpo, lamented that the once highly respected legal profession was being denigrated by the…

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Pres Tinubu Appoints Delta EX-SSG, Ebie Emerges NDDC Chairman, Igbuya State Rep

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Chiedu Ebie former Secretary to Delta State Government and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Monday Igbuya as Chairman and Delta State Representative at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, respectively. In a statement by Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President Chiedu Ebie was appointed Chairman while Rt Hon Monday Igbuya former Speaker, Delta Rep. with immediate effect.   According to the statement, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new Board and Management team of…

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Gov Fubara Of Rivers Under Fire Over Surveillance Contract

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  An oil and gas monitoring group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has rained heavy knocks on the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara for saying it was wrong to award such the pipelines Surveillance contract to ‘one man’. The Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, had on Saturday, August 26th, 2023, fumed over the crude oil pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Tantita Security Services led by former militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemepulo (aka Tompolo) by the Federal Government. The governor said in Port Harcourt that…

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Analysis & Opinion: Who are the ‘we”?

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By Sunny Awhefeada Last Thursday, the movers and shakers of Nigerian politics gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s corruption laden capital city for the public presentation of Brutally Frank, the autobiography of elder statesman and nonagenarian, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. As such gatherings are wont to be, it was another opportunity for our big men to talk about Nigeria and talk down on Nigerians. The big men and women were there in full attendance and voluble agbada and crispy babanriga rubbed one another just as well laundered suits glittered in competition. Headgears…

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Oil& Gas: Delta Community Indicts Ayiri, Akoma Others In A Press Statement

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PRESS STATEMENT BY INDIGENES OF OTUMARA COMMUNITIES. —————- We the undersigned, on behalf of the Communities surrounding the NNPC/SPDC joint venture facilities in Otumara area in the Escravos, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, use this medium to call on the Federal Government of Nigeria to cause the arrest and prosecution of Messrs Ayiri Emami, Mode Akoma, Isaac Botosan, Monday Tenumah, Smart Edema, Lucky Esun, Alex Eyengho, Lucky Ekpedure and others, over the unprovoked attack and destruction of facilities in the NNPC/SPDC Otumara Flow Station with a…

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Group Urges Tinubu To Renew Tompolo’s Pipelines Surveillance Contract

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  …Tasks NNPC, NSA To Reveal Names Of Those Behind Oil Theft   A group, Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to renew the pipelines Surveillance Contract of ex-war lord in the Niger Delta Region, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as  Tompolo for the benefit of the nation.   NDIMRC urged the Federal government that no effort should be spared in collaborating with the former militant leader in the protection of critical oil and gas infrastructure and securing permanent peace in…

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