The Okoko family has announced the burial program for the late former INC President, Prof. Kimse Okoko. Details are: REQUIEM MASS Wednesday 14 October, 2020 by 12:00 Noon at the Chapel of the Annunciation Catholic Chaplaincy, University of Port Harcourt,…
PREMIUM TIMES Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday shed light on the 2021 appropriations, saying the Federal Government would finance the budget with concessionary loans instead of commercial facilities. He ruled out the possibility of patronising Eurobond. He said concessionary…
THE NATION THE Bayelsa State Government has announced its plan to establish a psychiatric hospital to adequately take care of people with mental disabilities. The move, according to the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Pabara Igwele, will help rid the streets…
PREMIUM TIMES A young man, Jimoh Isiaka, who joined scores of others in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, to protest against police brutality has been shot dead allegedly by a police officer. The police have denied shooting at the protesters but there…
THIS DAY A boat carrying electoral materials and ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to riverine areas of Ilaje Local Government Area in the ongoing Ondo State governorship election has capsized. The wooden boat reportedly carrying…
THIS DAY The National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, Babagana Monguno, has revealed that the Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme’s fund totalling N712 billion released since its creation could not be accounted for. Monguno disclosed this yesterday while speaking…
VANGUARD Bayelsa State Government has described the proposed National Water Resources Bill 2020 as another draconian land use decree in disguise, saying it would join other progressive forces to resist it at all cost. This was one of the decisions…
PUNCH NEWS Last week, a former chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Tarinyo Akono, raised the alarm over an ongoing bush clearing for a fertilizer plant by Brass Fertilizer and Petrochemical Company Limited through…
CHANNELS TV President Muhammadu Buhari has presented the proposed 2021 Budget of N13 trillion to the lawmakers. Compared to budget presentations done in previous years, the President was only accompanied by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and a few ministers, while…
THE GUARDIAN The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has warned of imminent flood disaster in the Niger Delta. Akpabio issued the warning at the official presentation of the Inter-Agency Committee’s report on the assessment of potential impact of…