Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that for the stability of Bayelsa State, Governor Douye Diri should be encouraged to complete a second term in office. Speaking at his Yenagoa residence on Tuesday when members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bayelsa National Governorship Campaign Council alongside governors, former governors of the party and National…
Nigerian senators have received their “holiday token” allowance as directed by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. Erevision MediaTV gathered that the controversial directive which has incensed Nigerians and has dominated the social media was earlier denied by the Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, Ireti Kingibe. The Senate management has kept mute and attempt to…
Bayelsa was chosen for the project having been identified as a strategic industrial hub with favourable infrastructure, logistics, and workforce to host such a facility.”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared former Governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Bello, wanted for offences relating to economic and financial crimes while in office. This was contained in a notice posted on the commission’s official Facebook page on Thursday. The notice read, “The public is hereby notified that Yahaya Adoza…
By Chekwube Nzomiwu The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) is one non-governmental organisation no longer taken seriously in Nigeria because of its frequent outrageous and juvenile interventions in public discourse. However, in public interest, I am constrained to comment on the recent statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, asking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to…
In a bid to ensure the success of the forthcoming Population and Housing Census, the Chairman of the National Population Commission, Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, and his team visited the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja at the Nigerian Army’s Headquarters in Abuja. During the visit, the Commission sought the support of the…
“Let me on behalf of the government and good people of Bayelsa State, thank profusely,the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing Senator Heineken Lokpobiri as minister”.
“The forests should belong to us, but under government regulations. We cannot condone wrongdoing. Moving forward, we will establish a database to keep records of the unions we are working with and the individuals involved in the business.”
By Godknows Igali In a great show of what is referred to in Latin as ‘Opus Laudatio’, – preeminent praisework, the Nigerian nation gathered in Yenagoa on Saturday August 26, 2023, to celebrate one of the country’s living legends, Professor Emeritus Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa. Earlier, on April 14, 2023, this historian of lauded value and…
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has reacted to the federal government’s discontinuation of budgetary allocations for professional bodies and councils. In a statement on Thursday, the President of ICAN, Innocent Okwuosa, while applauding the initiative, noted that the institute voluntarily stopped the government’s yearly N1 million and N5 million allocations 34 years…
