NATIONAL VIBES

 The leadership of the Bayelsa Youth Frontier has flayed purported leaders from Ekeremor Local Government Area who are insisting on zoning of political offices in the area. The Secretary of the group, Mr. Hitler Moses and the Spokesperson, Mr. Depreye Boss said in a statement on Monday that those calling for zoning of the Senatorial seat are mischief makers who do not mean well for Bayelsa West, Bayelsa and indeed the Ijaw Nation. They said that the elders who held a meeting at the State Secretariat of the Peoples’ Democratic were only out “to sow discord in the senatorial district which everyone knows is the back bone of PDP in the state; create disaffection between the governor and Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, promote disharmony in the state and forever put Sagbama and Ekeremor people apart. Moses said further that the so-called elders know without contestation there is clearly one candidate who can readily defeat the APC in the Senatorial district and that person remains Senat...

  The Elebele Community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has appreciated  Governor Douye Diri over the construction of a bridge in its community. Access into the community was cut off in 2019 when the steel bridge linking it was damaged by flood. The Governor Douye Diri administration, however, commenced the building of a new concrete bridge in 2021 and it was one of the projects inaugurated during its second anniversary in February by former President Goodluck Jonathan.  On Friday, the community led by its paramount ruler, His Royal Highness David Osene Osene, paid a thank-you visit to Government House, Yenagoa, during which it announced the conferment of the chieftaincy title of Ogimemema I (Builder) of Elebele community  and Ogimemema II on his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. Osene said the gesture was in appreciation for the construction of a permanent bridge in the community. While applauding Diri for his commitment to development of the sta...

 Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo says the Rivers State Government under the watch of the State Chief Executive, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has taken practical steps to encourage women’s emancipation in the State. Dr. Banigo made this assertion in her Keynote Address, during the maiden edition of the Women in Energy, Oil, and Gas (WEOG) Summit at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt on Saturday, 19th March 2022. The Deputy Governor said Governor Wike initiated a Political Revolution that makes it mandatory for all Vice Chairmanship positions in Local Government Council Elections to be reserved for women, in addition to her being elected as the first female two-term Deputy Governor in the South-South Region in Nigeria. “To this end, I urge all women to get involved in the forthcoming General Elections in 2023. Joyfully, now that the Electoral Act has been amended and signed into law, women must get their PVCs ready for the elections because every vote must count u...

 For unlawful exclusion of the names of two senior staff of the National Examinations Council (NECO), the National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has set aside the November 13, 2021 promotion examination conducted by the Council. The senior staff, Mr. Charles Berje and Dr. Anthonia Utoh had approached the court with a suit challenging the exclusion of their names from the list of staff billed for the Council's promotion examination in the 2021. The trial Judge, Justice O.Y Anuwe had, in a judgement delivered on February 25, 2022, a copy of which was made available to journalists declared that the omission of the names of the claimants from the list of staff of NECO shortlisted for the said promotion examination was discriminatory, biased and unlawful. The trial Judge held that the claimants, who are Assistant Directors in grade level (CONTRISS) 13 from 1st January, 2017 are due and eligible for consideration for promotion to grade level 14 in the 2021 promotion exercise. The Jud...

  The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Dr (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo says she would continue to encourage women to break the bias and make a difference in the world. Dr. Banigo stated this  through her Special Assistant on Research, Mrs Uki Asemota-Osifo while receiving a Trailblazing Award by the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria(APWEN) on Friday 11th March, 2022 in Port Harcourt. Dr Banigo who expressed delight for the honour bestowed on  her, promised to encourage women to break the bias and make a difference in the world because every woman was created to impact her world. " In order to break the bias, women have to start by looking within themselves and creating positive change they want to see, by being people of integrity and excellence." She Stated. The President of APWEN Engr. Dr. Elizabeth  Eterigho in her Remarks, commended the Deputy Governor, for being one of the women who have blazed the trail for Women nationally as the first femal...

 The Rivers State Government says it has developed and is implementing an Ease of Doing Business Policy Framework that has enhanced the development, growth and sustainability of businesses in Rives State. Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. (Mrs.) Ipalibo Harry Banigo (2nd Left), Cutting a ribbon to officially lunch the Qatar Airways Inaugural Flight QR 1433 (Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner) at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa on the 3rd March 2022. The State Chief Executive Nyesom Ezenwo Wike stated this while speaking during the Qatar Airways Inaugural Fight at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa on Thursday, 3rd March 2022. Represented by his Deputy Dr. (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo, Governor Wike said “This is happening at a very auspicious time, when we in Rivers State are witnessing a total infrastructural renaissance, we are building ten flyovers, six has been commissioned three will be commissioned next month and one next year”. Rivers State Deputy Governor, D...

 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges Nigerians to brace up and support one another in the face of abandonment by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as all critical indicators show that the APC has abdicated its constitutional duty to guarantee the security and welfare of the people. The prevailing chaotic situation in the country with widespread uncertainties, unabating fuel crisis, piercing economic hardship, sectional agitations, heated industrial unrests, infrastructural stagnation, kidnapping, daily bloodletting and escalated insecurity with gangsters now taking over the streets of major cities further confirms that the APC administration is now on autopilot with its central command structure in disarray. The decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to jet out to the United Kingdom (where leaders are committed) for yet another “routine medical check-up” after his administration has wrecked our healthcare system and when the nation which he leads is in crisi...

Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo has felicitated with the   General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye as he celebrates his 80th Birthday today. In a statement from the Government House in Port Harcourt, on Wednesday 2nd March 2022, Dr Banigo described Pastor Enoch Adeboye as God’s General who over the years have continued to depopulate the Kingdom of darkness by converting millions of souls across the globe into God’s Kingdom. According to the Deputy Governor Pastor Adeboye’s teachings which she described as soul lifting and a great source of spiritual blessings has continued to be a source of blessing to the Government and Good People of Rivers State. Dr. Banigo wished him many happy returns and prayed the Almighty God to continue to bless and keep him in good health.