Edo Govt Pledges To Build More Abattoirs
The Edo State Commis sioner for Establishment and Special Duties, Mr Didi Adodo, said the government would build more abattoirs across the state to ensure hygiene and protect consumers in the area....
View ArticleIYC Condemns Attack On Radio Station
The Ijaw Youth Counciled (IYC) has condemned Friday’s attack of Silverbird’s Rhythm FM in Bayelsa State by some armed youths. The President of IYC, Mr Udengs Eradiri, who made the condemnation while...
View ArticleDickson Moves To Tackle Criminality
The Bayelsa Govern ment has constituted a Students’ Management Committee to tackle criminality among students and youths in the state. Governor Seriake Dickson, who inaugurated the committee in...
View ArticleShoddy Jobs: Okowa Threatens To Sanction Contractors, Civil Servants
Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has threatened to sanction any civil servant who connives with contractors to do shoddy jobs in the state. According to Governor Okowa, quality projects that...
View ArticleStakeholder Wants FG To Revive Moribund Industries
A former President of the Delta State Association of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chief Uju Udeme, has called on the government to revive moribund industries to boost the economic sector. Udeme...
View ArticleGroup Urges FG To Publish Names Of Looters
The Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged (CENTREP), has called on the Federal Government to publish the names of looters alongside the amount recovered from them. The Executive Director of...
View ArticleDickson, NMA Meet To Avert Strike
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has met with officials of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in the state to avert impending strike by medical practitioners over backlog of five month...
View ArticleFG Lauds C’River’s Deep Seaport Initiative
The Federal Govern ment has lauded Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State for his foresight in embarking on the Bakassi Deep Seaport project, describing it as a worthy venture that will impact...
View ArticleRivers Rerun: Resign Now, Secondus Tells INEC Chairman
As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) prepares to conclude the rerun elections in Rivers State, the former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche...
View ArticleDickson Plans Civil Service Reforms
The Bayelsa State Gover nor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has reaffirmed his commitment to carrying out effective reforms in the civil service to make it more result oriented and respectable. He therefore...
View ArticleUniben Suspends Post-UTME
The management of University of Benin has suspended the ongoing Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) following the Federal Government’s directive on its cancellation by tertiary...
View ArticleCommunal Crises: Ayade Inaugurates Panel Of Inquiry
Worried by incessant land skirmishes in some parts of the State, the Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, recently inaugurated a 9-man panel of inquiry with the mandate to ascertain the...
View ArticleDelta Assembly Approves Life Imprisonment For Kidnappers
The Delta State House of Assembly has approved life imprisonment for any person convicted of kidnapping in the state. The approval followed an amendment of the State Anti-Kidnapping Law 2016 earlier...
View ArticleUBEC: FG To Intervene In Counterpart Funding
The Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony Anwukah, has stated that steps are being taken by the Federal Government to reduce or eliminate counterpart funding being paid by states to access...
View ArticleSearch Team Recovers Oil Workers In Bayelsa
The search and rescue team raised following attack by gunmen suspected to be militants at oilfield in Bayelsa has recovered remains of two of the three oil workers that died in the incident. The...
View ArticleTUC Delegates Confab Holds, July 21 …Rolls Out Week-Long Activities
The Trade Union Con gress (TUC), Rivers State chapter, has concluded plans to organise its 5th delegates’ conference to take stock of its activities and welfare of members and also elect new executive...
View ArticlePolice Kill Two Armed Robbers In Warri
Two suspected armed robbers have been shot dead by the Nigeria Police, Warri Area Command. Leader of a patrol team, ASP Johnbull Aigbodion, who made the disclosure, said that the two suspects, who...
View ArticleEdo NUT Faults New Minimum Wage …Wants Primary Schools Teachers To Benefit
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Edo chapter, has decried the non-inclusion of teachers in public primary schools in the N25,000 new minimum wage for workers in the state. The Secretary of NUT in...
View ArticleWorld Bank To Offer $200m For FADAMA III Projects
The Minister of Agriculture, Mr Audu Ogbeh said the World Bank would support FADAMA III Project in the country with 200 million dollars. Ogbeh made this known at the official launching of FADAMA III...
View ArticleDickson Releases Ndu Workers’ January Salary
The Bayelsa State government has released funds for the full payment of January salaries to workers in the Niger Delta University (NDU). The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation,...
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