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…Says Project Is Bayelsa’s Single Most Ambitious, Biggest Investment By Pat PA Okon Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson on Monday, sought the collaboration of the Nigerian Air Force in the area of providing security, technical assistance and other forms of support to facilitate the smooth take off of the state international airport, scheduled for commissioning soon. Governor Dickson, who made the appeal when he received the Air Officer Commanding, Mobility Command, Air Vice Marshall, Napoleon Bali, who paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa, said the partnership has become imperative, especially at a time, when the facility is nearing completion. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo, quoted Governor Dickson, as describing the airport as the single most ambitious and biggest project in the state, noted that, the airport facility would serve as a gateway to the world and make Bayelsa a hub for busine

By Innocent Imoh The Bayelsa State Government has received the sum of N10.8 billion, as allocation from the Federation Account for the month of July, 2018. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a statement on Monday that, the state earlier received N12.7bn for the month of June. He said that, the receipts from the federation for the month of June showed a shortfall of about N2 billion from that of July. Ebibai said that, the state government would give priority to the payment of workers’ salaries in consonance with the emphasis placed on workers by the Restoration Administration. He stated also that, while ongoing capital projects would also attract priority attention, other state expenses would be treated on their scale of importance. The Commissioner explained that, the government had to brief the citizens of the state on receipts from the Federation Account, in line with the transparency policy of the State Administration. He recalle

...AS GOV. DICKSON LAUNCHES SAFE MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE By Innocent Imoh The Bayelsa State Government is set to hold the first summit on Infant and maternal mortality in Yenagoa on Tuesday. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said in a statement on Monday that, the Governor of the state, the Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, in company of his wife, Dr. (Mrs). Rachael Dickson, will exploit the opportunity of the event to launch the Safe Motherhood Policy of the Government. Iworiso-Markson said that, the Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President of Liberia, Her Excellency, Mrs. Jewel Howard Taylor would be the Chairman and Special Guest of Honour at the event respectively. He said that, the state government was expecting other very important personalities from outside the country, including the former Speaker of the Gambian National Assembly/Deputy Speaker, ECOWAS Parliament, Hon. Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay at

Posted by Admin The Senator representing Sokoto South Senatorial District, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi Danbaba said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win 10 northern states in the forthcoming general elections.                                                     Danbaba is among the lawmakers that recently decamped to PDP at the National Assembly. Speaking to some selected journalists in Sokoto on Sunday, he said he did not regret dumping the party that made him Senator because they were not being carried along in the scheme of things.                                                               He further explained that he left the party because of lack of equity, justice and fairness to all members.                                                             "The APC-led federal government has derailed from its mandate and failed to meet the yearnings of Nigerians," he added. Danbaba who is the vice chairman of the House Committee on Army, lamented tha

Posted by Admin                                                      Former Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Owoseni Ajayi, has revealed that the PDP house started crumbling under Governor Ayodele Fayose because of his refusal to listen to advice and give room for reconciliation in the party. He added that Fayose’s alleged arrogance, taking the people for granted and stabbing those who helped him back to power in the back, caused the defeat of the PDP governorship candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka. Another factor, according to him, was the mass exodus of leading party members who contributed to Fayose’s victory in the 2014 governorship election which rendered the platform very weak to face a very formidable opposition. Speaking with Journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, Ajayi maintained that the July 14 governorship election won by the governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, was free, fair, transparent, credible and would stand the judicial scru

By Innocent Imoh                                                       Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson has been commended for promoting the culture and traditions of the Ijaw people, as well as for being a true ambassador of his people. . A statement by the Chief Press secretary to the Governor,  Mr. Francis Ottah -Agbo quotes the former Jigawa state Governor,  Alhaji Sule Lamido, as making the commendation during the inauguration of a pavilion in the governor's country home of Toru Orua in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. Speaking at the event, Alhaji Lamido,  who is a People's Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, eulogised Governor Dickson for constructing the edifice, noting that, through this singular act,  the governor has endeared himself to the people. He said, he was consumed by the magnificence of the pavilion which is aimed at promoting oneness, adding that Nigerians have the responsibility of promoting integration

By Joe Iniodu         In the last few days, the most used lexical item is the word defection. In government circle, corporate world, market place, political groups, schools and any setting that hosts human community of reasonable mental elevation, the word dominates discussions. This is because the Nigerian politics and the players who are never lacking in drama and razzmatazz have through their actions forced an urgent deployment of the phrase, once again putting our politics into a ding dong mode.         Defection is not a totally new word to the Nigerian political lexicon. The word which was first used in 1546 is a noun which means “conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty to a person, cause or doctrine”. In summary, it means desertion. Its verb form, defect, shares the same meaning but with expanded semantic shift to provide more explicit meaning like “to leave a political party, organization”, etc. But despite its long duration of existence, defection has not been an e

***SAYS HE’s A SERIAL RAPIST Innocent Imoh The Vanguard for the Protection of Rights of Women (VPRW) on Sunday condemned the sexual crimes of a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC and alleged serial rapist,  Chief Perekeme Kpodo, against  women in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. A Magistrates’ court in Yenagoa, presided over by E. T Empire-Ugwa, had on Friday Remanded Kpodo in prison custody on two counts of unlawful detention and rape of of his staff in his hotel. But reacting to the development, Secretary General of VPRW, Ms. Jane Ebiakpo, told journalists that the VPRW was piqued by the rampant incidents  of sexual offences committed by Kpodo against unsuspecting and vulnerable ladies in his hotel in Bayelsa. According to her, the group was worried that Kpodo might have infected many ladies with sexually transmitted diseases in addition to the high possibility of a ritualist dimension to the dastardly act. Ebiakpo said information at the disposal of th

By Admin The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has raised the alarm over the recent decision of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to post four Commissioners of Police to Bayelsa State in less than two weeks. The Secretary-General of the IYC, Mr. Alfred Kemepado, said in a statement on Sunday that, it was indeed suspicious for the Force Headquarters to post four commissioners of police to one state, within such a short period of time. The IYC Scribe said that, the action of the Force Headquarters, under the leadership of the IGP smacks of a surreptitious plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to use the police authorities to politicize the Security architecture of the state, with the sole aim of causing instability and destabilize Bayelsa State. Kemepado called on the police authorities not to allow themselves to be used by politicians, pointing out that, the removal of CP Don Awunah after working so hard in collaboration with sister security agencies t

...Rates Gov Dickson High on Resources Management By Admin                                                             The multi-billion naira Bayelsa International Airport, with a 3.5 kilometre runway has been described as strategic to boosting the economy of the state and the entire Niger Delta region. Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Konbowei Benson made the remark on Thursday, when he led other members of the Assembly on an inspection tour of the airport project. Fielding questions from newsmen, Rt. Hon. Benson commended Governor Seriake Dickson for the prudent management of the N40 billion approved by the House for the project, which he noted, has facilitated the completion of the airport. The Speaker, who was visibly elated, expressed satisfaction with the quality of the project, noting that, the airport, which is slated for commissioning next month, would open Bayelsa to the world for business and social activities. His words: "The

…Urges Presidential Aspirants to Close Ranks, Work For The Interest of PDP Tony Okechukwu                                                     Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson, on Thursday, appealed to Nigerians to rally round the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to rescue the country from its litany of woes. Governor Dickson made the appeal, when he played host to PDP presidential aspirant and former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido and his campaign team in Government House, Yenagoa. A press statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa State Governor, Francis Ottah Agbo, says Honourable Dickson described the current security and economic challenges in the country as unparalleled, stressing that, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has failed to deliver on its mandate to the citizenry. The Governor, who noted that the APC has shown gross incompetence in the last 3 years, pointed out that, it is only the PDP that has the capa

Tony Okechukwu Katsina State Governor, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, Thursday, attended the Family Support School Program and Annual Speech and Prize-Giving Day, where he also inaugurated an electronic library facility in the school. Family Support Program is a Katsina-based public school founded in 1997 with the aim of bridging the gender gap in Nursery, primary and secondary education especially among the female gender.                                  The school had been refurbished, upgraded and standardized to compete globally with many other schools across the state, as the Masari administration made education central and cardinal to its agenda. @katgovmedia reports that Masari, whose children are studying in public school as promised during his campaign in 2015 commended the school management noting his government's effort in strengthening the administration of the school particularly the appointment of a Director for the school adding that it was against most peopl

By Tony Okechukwu Katsina Governor, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, says his government's commitment to better the state civil service saying that "no civilian government can compete with the current administration in the area of repositioning the state own civil service for effective service delivery". Katsina Media and Publicity correspondent reports that Masari disclosed this while witnessing the oath taking by the new head of civil service of the state, Alh. Idris Usman Tune, at the Muhammad Buhari House, the seat of Katsina State Government. @Katgovmedia reports that Masari also said that  the thought of some people when they came into power about civil servants saying that some people thought we came to sack the appointees of the immediate past administration.                                 "We treat people based on the information available to us. Ours is service to the people of Katsina irrespective of political party as we shall all account before

Posted by Admin                                                             The Peoples Democratic Party has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop its nefarious plot to impeach Ekiti State Governor,  Chief Ayo Fayose or attract dire consequences. In a press statement signed by Hon. Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the party, PDP says the impeachment plot, which is being arranged in connivance with the Police, is a recipe for crisis in the peaceful state. The PDP is aware that the plot is a desperate bid by the APC to rush into the Ekiti Government House to remove and tamper with documents and evidence confirming the rigging of the July 14 governorship election, ahead of the sitting of the election tribunal. Having realized that there is no way their daylight robbery at the poll can stand in the court,  the APC is now employing all desperate means to subvert the course of Justice. This explains why a detachment of the Police can be hurriedly

By Admin                                                                      Leading lights of the media were at the Senate yesterday with a strong demand on the lawmakers —drop the Nigerian Press Council Bill 547.                                                               The Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) told Senators that the Bill is unconstitutional and subjudice to the ongoing case in the Supreme Court.                                                                   It expressed regrets that the bill seeks to criminalise journalists and journalism.                                                               The President of the NPO, an umbrella body for all media organisations in the country, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, made the submissions at a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation in Abuja.                                                               The committee had invited stakeholders for their input on “A bi

By admin                                                         Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points. "I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by IG as a ploy to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was also said that if I was detained between Tuesday

........we have enough evidence to reclaim our mandate in Ekiti By Admin The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has charged members of the party across the country that Nigerians are looking up to them to halt the disastrous slide in the state of the nation. Prince Secondus who spoke at an emergency meeting of the party's 80th National Executive Committee, NEC, told the party leaders to join other democrats to save Nigeria as she heads to disaster under the watch of All Progressives Congress, APC, administration. According to a statement from his media office signed by media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus said that the situation in the country demands that all hands must be on deck to see off the incompetent APC regime. "The situation in the country demands that all people of goodwill must join hands to legally see out this competent APC government. "In our wildest imagination, none of us thought that Nige

                By Admin                                                             The governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has commiserated with the Inspector General of Police (IGP),  Ibrahim  Idris on the death of former IGP, Ibrahim Coomassie.                The Governor said the late IGP was one of the finest in the history of policing. While praying God for the repose of his soul, Governor Dickson who himself was a Police Officer,  also prayed God to give the police and his family the fortitude to bear the loss which he said is clearly irredeemable.  A press statement by the Governor's Chief Press Secretary,  Francis Ottah Agbo quoted Dickson as having made the remarks today,  July, 23, 2018 when he paid a condolence visit on Idris at Force headquarters,  Abuja.                                        Coomassie was IGP between 1993 and 1999.                              The IGP thanked Governor Dickson for the visit and commend