NATIONAL VIBES

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Saturday, commended the federal government and the drive by the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and its joint venture partners to combat COVID-19 through the consolidation and improvement of medical facilities. Governor Diri gave the commendation at the groundbreaking ceremony of a 200-bed medical facility initiated by the NAOC and sited in Bayelsa to cover the South South region. The governor said the event is not only significant but also restates and demonstrates the necessary co-operation and social responsibility that must exist for the oil and gas industry as well as other businesses across the country. In a press release by his Acting Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, the governor described the COVID-19 pandemic as the defining global health predicament of our time and the greatest challenge faced in several generations.  His words: "Countries are under lockdown. Travel is severely restricted. Traditiona...

In what looks like an endorsement of the candidature of immediate past Bayelsa state Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson for the Bayelsa West Senatorial zone, the Chairman of APC Grassroots Mobilization for Sagbama and Ekeremor, Ebide Brown has endorsed the former Governor. Even as the primaries of both APC and PDP are yet to hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The APC leader in the Zone explained that “after due consultation of all the members across the wards in Bayelsa West Senatorial district has come up with the notion that no politician in EKEREMOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA should nurse the ambition of contesting the senatorial bye election”. The group maintained that the vacant seat left by SENATOR LAWRENCE EWHRUDJAKPOR the current Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State still belongs to SAGBAMA.  Brown disclosed that “There is an amicable political arrangement and understanding between SAGBAMA and EKEREMOR, truncation of this understanding is detrimental to the political hist...

- NLC, TUC, Pensioners Laud Bayelsa Governor On Workers Welfare As workers across the world marked May Day on Friday, Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said his administration would focus on labour-friendly policies to alleviate the condition of workers in the state. He also advocated the need for the organised labour to work towards building a stable and inflation-free economy to enhance workers' welfare. Senator Diri stated this while addressing labour leaders as part of this year's May Day celebration in the state. In a press release by his Acting Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, the governor noted that increase in workers salary alone would not guarantee any meaningful improvement in their standard of living. While saluting labour for their untiring efforts toward bringing about prosperity and national progress, Senator Diri assured that his administration would continually place premium on workers by virtue of its slogan on prosperity. He however...

- Says Seriake Dickson is the way forward By Admin Scoops here and there from very authoritative sources have it that opinion leaders, patriots, stakeholders and the owners of the Ijaw Nation have individually and collectively adopted the immediate past governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Henry Dickson (HSD) as their sole candidate for the forthcoming Bayelsa West Senatorial District bye-elections. This position was further given a boost at the end of a one-day critical session of Patriots of Ijaw Struggle held in Yenagoa, capital city of Bayelsa State. In a comprehensive communiqué issued at the end of the session, members-in-atendance in one voice called on the entire Ijaw Nation to throw its full weight behind the candidature and adoption of HSD as the most qualified, most vibrant, most articulate and experienced Ijaw son at the moment to represent Bayelsa West at the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly. The session among other issues also resolved to se...

The Chairman of APC GRASSROOT MOBILIZATION SAGBAMA/ EKEREMOR, Comrade EBIDE BROWN , after due consultation of all the members across the wards in Bayelsa West Senatorial district has come up with the notion that no politician in EKEREMOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA should nurse the ambition of contesting the senatorial bye election. The group maintained that the vacant seat left by SENATOR LAWRENCE EWHRUDJAKPOR the current deputy governor of Bayelsa State still belongs to SAGBAMA.  There is an amicable political arrangement and understanding between SAGBAMA and EKEREMOR, truncation of this understanding is detrimental to the political history of the two Local Government Areas. Below is the political history of representation with regards to the senate from the inception of democracy in 1999: * Senator Emmanuel Tupele-ebi Diffa :1999-2003. ( SAGBAMA) * Senator John Kojo Brambaifa: 2003-2007( SAGBAMA) * Senator Heineken Lokpobiri : 2007-2015 ( EKEREMOR) * Senator Foster Og...

The PDP Governors’ Forum expresses its condolences to the Governor, Government and people of Adamawa State on the sad news of the passage of Hajiya Fatimah Umar Badami, Mother of His Excellency, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State. A press statement dated 29th April, 2020 and signed by  Hon. C.I.D Maduabum, LL.M, the Director-General of the forum, in part reads: "We pray God to give his Excellency and his family, the strength and fortitude to bear this irreparable loss. "The Chairman, Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, CFR and your colleagues in the Forum are particularly saddened by the loss of such a young woman who has been a pillar of strength to His Excellency, her family, Adamawa State and the nation at large. "May her soul rest in peace and may Allah grant her Al Jannah firdaus.

...Says It's Satisfied With S/Court Judgment, Has Moved On Bayelsa State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced itself from allegation of bribing the Young Progressives Party (YPP) to fight the state governor, Diri Duoye at the court over his mandate. Recall it was reported on Friday that a prominent minister from Bayelsa State and his party were accused of bribing the YPP to fight the governor. A group, under the aegis of Progressive Youth for Good Governance (PYGG), had alleged that the YPP was being bribed with the sum of N200 million to fight the governor at the court. But the Bayelsa State chapter of APC has, however, debunked this development, saying they didn't bribe the YPP or any other group or persons for that matter to fight the governor. An APC stakeholder from the state, Mr. Brown Friday, who spoke on the issue said that the party does not have such money to bribe anybody, adding that even if it has, there are other better things such ...