Since he returned to power in 2014, Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose has moved from one controversy to the other. The image of being an “attention seeker” was deliberately weaved around him in order to rubbish genuine advocacy and agitations championed by him.

It is thus preposterous and illogical to suggest that Benin, on a military mission, founded Lagos. It is a different thing to say it had a territorial mission to conquer and subdue the existing settlements and kingdom, yet the vast Ilaje territory was the impediment and albatross to the ambitious Benin empire which had neither the military strength nor population for conquest, for the purpose of permanent occupation or imposition of any enduring culture over such a large territory and long distance from base.

THE Ijaw nation has described the Senate’s passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, as a display of government disregard for oil host communities.

A former Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government (SSG) under the Alamieyeseigha administration, Prof Steve Azaiki, was one year older on Friday, June 2. The founder of the Azaiki Public Library in Yenagoa, which houses the most modern museum in the Niger Delta and the Institute of Science and Technology, played host to the first International Conference of Science, Technology and Education in Nigeria in December 2014.

Chief Anthony Ayovogware Amitaye, the immediate past President of the oil-rich Ugborhen community, now “Extra Ordinary Ambassador” of Peace in Ugborhen District in Sapele LGA, Delta State and Okpe Kingdom, is one man who is not given to frivolities but always committed to noble causes.