Donald Trump declared that the US was becoming a “Third World Nation” on Monday as Americans celebrated the Labor Day holiday and the ex-president stewed over an ongoing criminal investigation into his handling of classified materials. The former president has repeatedly lashed out at the Biden administration and the Justice Department in particular as the embarrassing news of…
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, said the decision of his administration to construct the massive Ernest Ikoli Media Complex in Yenagoa was borne out of the important role the media plays in societal development. L-R: General Manager, Niger Delta Television, Fred Fabor, Governor Douye Diri and the Commissioner for Information, Ayibaina Duba, during…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured landslide victory in Saturday’s local government council elections, securing all eight declared seats by the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC). In the Yenagoa Local Government Council, Mr. Bulodisiye Ndiwari emerged victorious for the PDP, garnering 56,103 votes, as announced by returning officer Chief Wisdom Soreh. In a similar…
Under the prosperity administration of Governor Douye Diri, Bayelsa has become that choice destination where security of lives and property s secured, infrastructures that open the state to hidden wealth in the East and Central district of the State is being opened with massive infrastructural development across the three Senatorial Districts.
The North-Central Governors’ Forum has expressed their dissatisfaction with the exclusion of their zone from the sharing of principal officers in the National Assembly. In response, they have decided to meet with the President-elect, Asiwaju Tinubu and the party’s NWC to express their grieviances. Those present at the meeting include Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau…
Whether anybody likes it or not, he continued where Dickson stopped. If it were some other Governors, they would abandon those things and look for other ways, but the man continued. That singular action of the present governor is what I liked him about most, and I believe that I’m speaking the minds of several Bayelsans. Our problem was roads, how to get to the hinterlands. This time, our hinterlands are the riverine areas. So what I mean is roads, not only those three senatorial roads, he has extended off the three senatorial roads to reach out more into the depths of our rivers and seas. So his pattern, he went away from the normal way of once a new government comes, the old arrangements are gone, whether they were good or not.
Surv. Furoebi Sheba Akene, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CEPAD, has urged institutions involved in amending the constitution to prioritize quick resolutions for oil spillage cases in Nigeria. In a viral video, he highlighted the challenges faced by communities affected by oil operations in the Niger Delta and the need for justice…
“There are a lot of projects that Southern Ijaw needs. Southern Ijaw is one of the golden eggs that produces Nigeria. Southern Ijaw produces a lot of crude oil in this country. Southern Ijaw is educationally backward. Southern Ijaw in terms of tourism, is backward. No hospital, nothing to talk about. Southern Ijaw is a place that if you want to bring resources to Nigeria, we have the land, we also have tourism that can attract resources to Nigeria:.
“In the face of such a loss, what can we say that would adequately capture the essence of her spirit and character? Let us thus draw strength from our shared faith and simply say in the words of the hymn writer: “Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.”
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has vowed to increase crude oil production to 3million barrels per day (mbd/d). According to him, the 50,000bpd from Total Energy will contribute to the attainment of the target. He spoke at the commencement of operation of the TotalEnergies’ Ikike Oil Field, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State….
