Further to the notice given two weeks ago by the Chairman Electoral Committee, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) Election is scheduled to hold at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State at the Ijaw National Secretariat (ljaw House) on the 8th of June, 2019. …
PREMIUM TIMES President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to a bill seeking the establishment of Nigeria Maritime University in Okerenkoko Delta State. The decision was conveyed to the Senate in a letter on Thursday. Mr Buhari stated the excessive proposed…
PUNCH Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, inaugurated a committee to investigate and audit the financial transactions of the 23 local government areas of the state from May 2018 to May 2019. Wike said the move was not aimed…
VANGUARD IBADAN—BARELY a week after former President Olusegun Obasanjo accused the Federal Government of being lackadaisical about invasion and unprovoked attacks by herdsmen across the country, the Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has advised the Presidency to check the killing…
VANGUARD The wife of a staff of Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University, NDU, was in the early hours of yesterday abducted by gunmen in Gbarantoru, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Also yesterday, members of a vigilante group and…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa There is a pretence of a debate over the practice and funding of local governments in the country. The Federal Government, putting up a facade of defending local governments, rolled out new guidelines on their expenditure,…
COMMUNIQUE The Ijaw Elders Forum, Lagos in collaboration with Ijaw Professionals Association, Ijaw Nation Forum, G24 Embasara Foundation and Ijaw Women Connect organized a one day workshop on Credible Governorship Election and Good Governance in Bayelsa State on Wednesday 22nd…
Priye S. Torulagha It is often said that in every bad situation, there is a sliver of hope. Thus, the chaotic, murderous and despairing situation in Zamfara State led to the confirmation that Nigerian citizens can actually purchase licenses to…
LEADERSHIP Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Gov. Seriake Dickson and other notable Ijaw leaders are to attend a stakeholders workshop in Yenagoa on May 22, ahead of the upcoming Nov. 16 Gubernatorial election in Bayelsa. The Ijaw Professionals Association (IPA) on…
Arrangements are in top gear for this workshop scheduled to start at 12 noon tomorrow at the De Gracious Event Center, Bayelsa Palm Road, Yenagoa. The overall objective of this IEF-led initiative is to ensure proactive steps are taken to…
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