…calls for local govt autonomy By Ben Ogbemudia, Abuja Chief Ayirimi Emami, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, has accused the Governor Sheriff Oborevwori-led administration of planning to manipulate the Saturday July 13 local government elections in the state. He warned that any attempt to disenfranchise his people in Delta South Senatorial District would be resisted. Chief Ayiri gave the warning on Tuesday at separate times during APC local government campaign rally in Ogbe-ijoh, Warri South-West and Koko, Warri North councils areas of the state. Addressing a mammoth crowd at Ogbe-ijoh where he is rooting…
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Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa Ijaw Youth Council has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to as a matter of urgency set up a probe panel to look into the revenues and expenditures of the Niger Delta Development Commission under the leadership of the Managing Director, Chief Samuel Ogbuku. IYC, which expressed serious concerns over the state of affairs in the Niger Delta region under the current leadership of the commission, in a statement by its spokesman, Comrade Bedford Benjamin Berefa, said the IYC had lost confidence in the Ogbuku-led management and had passed a vote of no confidence in him. Berefa…
Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa The Nigerian Navy Ship SOROH (NNS) on Tuesday distributed educational materials to students of Government Modern Secondary School, in Toru-Ebeni Community, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship SOROH, Commodore Nanmar Lakan, led some officers and ratings of the Command to present the items to the students. Lakan, represented by Capt. Mohammed Kolo, Executive Officer/Deputy Commander, NNS SOROH, while addressing newsmen, said that the educational outreach was to encourage the children to be of good behaviour. ”It is also to encourage them to study hard and eschew all forms of criminalities capable of…
Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa Indigenes of the Olugboboro community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have cried out over a massive leakage of crude oil from the pipeline operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in the area. According to the Olugboboro indigenes, the spillage occured about two months ago along Ogboinbiri/Tebitada pipeline when the pipeline ruptured, a development which has been attributed to equipment failure. The leaders of the Olugboboro Community, Chief Azeke MatthewAkpowari, Chief Ebimobowei KenboIpkesiware and Assistant Secretary General, Amos Oweifighe, in a letter to the Bayelsa Government called for urgent intervention to stop the…
. Round of 32, Women’s Tournament gets underway Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa It was an eventful week in Yenagoa as the 5th Governor Diri International Scouting Programme/Coaching Clinic climaxed in a pulsating final match involving twenty-seven players screened from over five hundred players selected during the preliminary round of Nigeria’s biggest grassroots football tournament tagged the Prosperity Cup. It was a memorable four days as these gifted players converged on the Samson Siasia Stadium to showcase their talents. The week-long event had over ten foreign scouts from Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, and Turkey alongside the Nigerian U-20 coach and President of Nigeria…
House of Representatives, on Tuesday, mandated its Committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream and Midstream) to investigate the return of fuel queues in the nation’s service stations and proffer lasting solutions to the oil sector’s challenges. The decision of the House followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved during Tuesday’s plenary by the member representing Orhionmwon/Uhunmwode Federal Constituency, Edo State, Mr Bill Osawaru. The motion titled, “Urgent need to carry out a legislative forensic investigation into the challenges affecting the downstream and midstream petroleum sectors in Nigeria and other related matters to find out a lasting solution…
President Bola Tinubu has given his approval for the creation of a new Ministry of Livestock Development. This is coming as the President inaugurated the Renewed Hope livestock reform implementation committee at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday. The committee is mandated to provide sector-focused solutions to address the age-long farmers-herders crisis. On September 14, 2023, the National Livestock Reforms Committee made a recommendation to Tinubu to create a “Ministry of Livestock Resources” to, among other deliverables, reduce the decades-long gory conflict between farmers and nomadic cattle herders nationwide. Immediate past Kano State governor and Chairman of the All Progressives…
Police in Kano have arrested a 22-year-old suspected kidnapper, Zakariyya Muhammad, barely 16 hours after he allegedly kidnapped an 18-month-old baby. State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed the arrest of the suspect. The PPRO said the suspect was arrested on Thursday following a report from a resident who claimed that the father of the victim informed him of the incident. He also disclosed that the suspect demanded N2 million ransom for her release. The police spokesman said, “On 04/07/2024 at about 4 pm, a report was received from a resident of Sabuwar…
… says President’s silence on lingering feud between FCT Minister, Fubara worrisome A group, 21st-Century Youths of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience (21st CYNDAC), on Tuesday, expressed worries over President Bola Tinubu’s silence on the unending political crisis in Rivers State. The group also described the Rivers debacle as disturbing, worrisome and unacceptable. Leader of the youth group, Izon Ebi, in a statement, condemned the long silence of the President, stressing that the reason for the current intractable crisis and skirmishes by political actors in Rivers State could not be far-fetched. Ebi accused Tinubu of refusing to call the…
A former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, says only God can resolve the perennial crisis rocking Rivers State. Sani in his post on X, wrote, “Rivers State has been left in the hands of God to solve the problem.” Rivers State has been enmeshed political crises of varying dimensions since Governor Siminalayi Fubara assumed office. Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike are fighting over the control of political power in the state. The crises have culminated in the emergence of two parallel speakers, Martin Amaewhule and Victor Oko-Jumbo. Earlier intervention by President Bola Tinubu did not yield the expected result.