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*NDLEA Decorates Bayelsa Gov As Frontline Ambassador Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has implored politicians in the state not to destroy the future of youths in the state by introducing them to drug use during election seasons. Governor Diri also stated that there was a relationship between hard drugs and crime. The governor spoke…
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has restated the call for oil companies operating in the state and corporate bodies to invest in sports development. L-R: President, Nigeria Scrabble Federation, Chief Olobatoke Aka, Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, Masters category winner, Enoch Nwali, and Chairman, Bayelsa State Scrabble Association, Daniel Alabrah He made…
Two Civil Society Organisations, Save Nigeria Movement (SNM) and College of Bishops Imams and Clergy Councils (CBICC), have jointly described the recent call by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) to scrap the National Population Commission (NPC) as misguided comments that fail to recognize the importance of the Commission by law in gathering…
Anambra Governor Chukwuma Soludo has directed that Mmesomma Joy Ejikeme, the female pupil who falsified her Unifief Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) be handed over to the State Guidance Counselor and Professor of Clinical Psychology. Soludo gave this directive in a letter to the Principal of Anglican Girls Secondary School Nnewi where Mmesoma is a student….
The Executive Chairman of the National Population Commission, Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, has has said that the decision to postpone the 2023 Population and Housing census was to allow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to take ownership of the process. Watch full video: Kindly Share
Bayelsa State Government has formally handed over three fishermen who lost their way on the Gulf of Guinea to the Sao Tome and Principe Head of Mission in Nigeria. Speaking in Government House, Yenagoa, during the formal handover on Thursday night, Governor Diri lauded the local fishermen in Okpoama community in Brass Local Government of…
In a recent meeting with the boss of the National Population Commission (NPC), President Bola Tinubu expressed his disappointment in the delay of conducting another census in the country. He emphasized that this delay should be an opportunity for the commission to take advantage of electronic and digital technologies for an accurate data collection system….
The National Population Commission (NPC) Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will announce a new date for the 2023 Population and Housing Census and Housing census exercise. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in audience with Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra and his delegation at the State House, Abuja According to Hon. Kwarra,…
A farewell party was held at The Vue Restaurant in Abuja on July 4, 2023, to honor the outgoing Resident Representative of UNFPA in Nigeria, Miss Ulla Elisabeth Mueller. At the party, Chairman of National PopulationCommission Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, fnsa, and other development partners, including members of the NPC team, bid farewell to Miss…
The Federal High Court in Yenagoa has ordered the Chairman of Bayelsa FA, Porbeni, to stop parading himself as the chairman of the body. BFAN obtained the court injunction yesterday in Yenagoa, with the case now set to come up on the 17th of July for hearing. Some aggrieved football stakeholders had gone to court…
