VANGUARD NEWS Sen Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo (APC – Bayelsa East) has urged Niger Delta senators not to instigate violence in the region by making malicious and unfounded statements over the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). The lawmaker made the call…
THE NATION The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday berated Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, for counting the Niger Delta out of Biafra. The outlawed group dismissed Clark as a general without foot soldiers and therefore lacked authority to speak…
DAILY POST A militant group, Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), has threatened to resume attacks on oil installations in the region. NDRC said it would resume attacks on oil installations due to the three per cent allocated to host communities…
THE GUARDIAN South Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Kim Young-Chae, yesterday, said Bayelsa State has potential to be as developed as his country. Speaking when he visited Governor Douye Diri at the Government House, Yenagoa, Young-Chae, said his visit was a…
VANGUARD NEWS YOU claimed during the 2015 election campaign that you do not understand why we are talking about fuel subsidy; today you have been in government for over six years and subsidy cost has escalated under your regime. Who…
THIS DAY Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has deplored the menace of water hyacinth on Epie Creek in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. The State Coordinator, ERA/FoEN, Mr. Alagoa Morris, spoke during a field advocacy visit by the…
THE NIGERIAN LAWYERS The bill provides that three percent of oil profit should be channeled to the development of host communities. But lawmakers and other stakeholders from the south-south zone had expressed displeasure over the legislation, saying the three percent…
PUNCH NEWS Residents of Obor and Obie communities in Usomini clan of Ogbaland, in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State have raised the alarm over the invasion of their farmlands and destruction of crops by herdsmen. One of…
VANGUARD The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has proposed to convert the NIMASA Science and Technical College, NSTC Okoloba in Delta State, into a skill acquisition center for Niger Delta youths on how to build ships and small…
THE GUARDIAN The Delta State House of Assembly will on Monday, July 26, 2021, hold a public hearing on a Bill for the regulation of livestock breeding, rearing and marketing, and to prohibit open grazing in the state. The hearing,…
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