DAILY POST Mr. Mustapha Dandaura has been appointed as the new Commissioner of Police (CP) for Rivers State in the latest reorganisation by the police high command. The command’s spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt…
VANGUARD The oil-bearing communities in the Nembe Council Area of Bayelsa have described as fraudulent the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) drawn by the International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in their areas. The communities said this at a stakeholders’ forum…
VANGUARD YENAGOA—FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan and three governorship aspirants in Bayelsa State— former Federal Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Godknows Igali;former Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty, PAP, Mr Timi Alaibe, and Mr. Erepamo Osaisai— spoke, yesterday, on how to ensure a violence-free governorship…
VANGUARD PORT HARCOURT- three persons were feared killed, yesterday, following a clash between youths and some policemen at Nkpolu Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State during the burial of a youth in the area. It was gathered that…
THE NATION With a promise to reactivate all four refineries before the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2023, Mele Kyari yesterday took the baton from Dr. Makanti Baru as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum…
GUARDIAN Hope for the revival of the moribund South-South regional integration bloc of Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross-Rivers, Edo and Delta States (BRACED) has been rekindled. Aware of the immense benefits of regional economic cooperation and integration offer as means for accelerating…
GUARDIAN The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday admitted that the November 16,2019 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa would be challenging due to the history of political violence in the two states. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Voter Education…
THIS DAY The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has described the suspended RUGA settlement programme for herdsmen across the states of the country as obnoxious, unacceptable and a way to easily destabilise Nigeria…
PUNCH Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has fulfilled his promise to give automatic employments to 336 persons of Ijaw descent. The breakdown of the beneficiaries shows that 102 PhD holders, 54 master’ degree holders; 60 medical doctors and 119 First…
PUNCH The General Officer Commanding 6 Division, Maj.-Gen. Jamil Sarham, has accused communities experiencing a high rate of cult-related killings of refusing to give information to the Nigerian Army and other relevant security agencies. Sarham stated that residents of such…