By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa — Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, says people of the state and Nigerians, generally, should see this year’s Christmas as a time to intensify prayers for the quick recovery of  President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Sylva praised Bayelsans for their commitment to peace in the Niger Delta and urged them to […]

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN — ELDERS and political leaders from oil-rich Oben community of Edo State, yesterday, protested alleged failure by the Federal Government and the Niger Delta Develop-ment, NDDC, to award the over N2 billion contract for the construction of the Oben-Umoghun road to indigenous contractors. They also vowed to chase away any foreign […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa — The Academic Staff Union of Bayelsa State College of Arts and Science (ASUCAS) has called on the state governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, to call to order the Due Process and e-Governance Bureau in the state. The union claimed the bureau was intimidating the manage-ment of the college with its biometrics […]

By Festus Ahon UGHELLI — THE National Association of Delta State Students (NADESSTU) has impeached its Secretary-General, Mr. Ejesi Yemi Stanley, and enjoined  Delta State government to refrain from having dealings with him. The association, in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting at the University of Abuja and made available to newsmen […]

By  Charles Kumolu LAGOS—A GROUP, Warri Interest Group (WIG), has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, to call the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS)  in Delta State to order, alleging  that they had become tools in the hands of desperate politicians. It also condemned the arrest and detention of some Itsekiri youths by […]