By Chuks Akunna Chief Timipre Sylva became Bayelsa governor on May 29, 2007. On April 15, 2008, the Court of Appeal nullified his election, ordering fresh elections. Sylva won the re-run polls. When his tenure was about ending in May 2011, he secured a court order that his tenure began in 2008, not 2007. That…
The Nigerian government has condemned what it described as an “abominable” terrorist attack that took place on Tuesday, 17th September, 2024, targeting a military airport, training Centre and other strategic locations in Bamako, Mali. A statement by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Eche Abu-Obe, on Saturday said in part: “This heinous…
RESOLUTION OF ALL IJAW YOUTHS CONFERENCE HELD IN KAIAMA, BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA, DECEMBER 11, 1998. INTRODUCTION: Over 5000 Ijaw Youths drawn from over 500 communities of about 40 clans that make up the Ijaw nation, met in Kaiama to deliberate on ways of finding solutions to the problems associated with our present enslavement in the…
There are palpable anxieties in Afaraukwu, Abia State country home of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Erevision MediaTV gathered that when the news broke that the Appeal Court had ordered for Kanu’s release, there was wild celebration in the area. However, the hopes that Kanu would join his…
“Let us have a paradigm shift from depending solely on revenues generated from crude oil. This is the time for us to move towards where the world is going.”
Following the uproar generated by the oil pipeline surveillance contract awarded to an ex-militant leaders Government Ekpemopolo (aka Tompolo), the Special Assistant on Youth to the Interim Administrator of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Udengs Eradiri, said Tompolo followed due process before the contract was awarded to him. Eradiri stated this while representing the Interim…
The recent launch of a 1,144-man nomadic vigilante group by Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, is generating negative reactions from the Middle Belt and Southern parts of the Nigeria, indicating the likelihood of violent resistance of the group by other regional groups in the country. Miyetti Allah had on Thursday, January 18, 2024,…
“I am happy with your success story as an Ijaw gospel musician and I have, therefore, appointed you as Ambassador of Ijaw Language. My office will write you.”
The Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Sen. Douye Diri, has advised citizens of the state to refrain from seeing themselves as commodities that can be purchased, particularly with the upcoming elections. Gov. Diri made the statement when he received members of the Forum of Special Assistants to the Governor at the Samson Siasia Stadium in…
In Bayelsa State, a tricycle operator was killed by a mob in the Kpansia area of Yenagoa after allegedly stabbing a young man to death during an argument over N50 change on Wednesday. The victim died immediately, and the Keke rider was subsequently attacked. Burning down of many Tricycles (Keke) in Kpansia by angry youths…
