Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, yesterday, said his administration’s investment in education helped to reduce militancy and insecurity in the state, saying Bayelsa has become one of the most peaceful states, as well as one of the top in education index, in the country.

RELENTLESS struggles by Okporo community, Obia Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, at nursing her self-initiated secondary school to enviable standards gained further support, yesterday, with MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, supporting the school with 100 chairs and desks.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr. Osi Olisa, has said former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, willingly relinquished power to All Progressives Congress, APC, to expose the weaknesses of APC leaders.

Unrestricted access to medicines through the open drug and inadequate regulatory enforcement markets have remained the root cause of rampant drug misuse and abuse in the society, community pharmacists have said.

AGRICULTURE, which is one of the four pillars on which Governor Willie Obiano’s administration is anchored, is getting the desired attention in most of the food production belts of the state, thanks to the support by the FADAMA III Additional Financing and the international donor agencies, including the World Bank, which introduced new irrigation method currently being enjoyed by farmers in the state.

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Rivers State Government has called on All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in 2015 election, Dr Dakuku Peterside, to apologise to the people of Andoni and Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Areas of the state for deliberately abandoning the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo (Unity) Road when he was the state Commissioner for Works.

IJAW Youth Council, IYC, yesterday kicked against the Hate Speech Bill sponsored by Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi of Niger State, saying it will become an instrument in the hands of politicians to suppress and repress opposition.

FOLLOWING the arrest of 52 youths from Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, after a clash with the Police from Zone 9, Umuahia, in which one police man lost his life and several people sustained injuries, the traditional ruler of Umunze, His Royal Highness, Igwe Promise Eze has alleged invasion of his community by men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, calling on the police to release the youths unconditionally.

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