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Nov22023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Making Steady Progress Under Diri…OBJ

News Feature

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has praised Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, for his sterling performance saying that the state was making significant strides in all areas of development. He particularly commended the governor for consolidating the legacies of his predecessor, Senator Seriake Dickson, which he said has contributed to the peace, security and political stability under Diri’s leadership. Chief Obasanjo stated this on Thursday during the 12th Bayelsa State Thanksgiving Day at the Ecumenical Centre in Igbogene-Yenagoa. The 86-year-old former president said: "What I saw is more than what I expected. What you have here in Bayelsa that you have to cherish is peace. Comparatively, you have greater peace than other parts of the country. "...

Nov12023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NUJ’s Chapel Elect Edomi, Others as New EXCOs

News Feature

Ovie Edomi a Journalist with about three decades of journalism practice experience an a PhD holder in Mass Communication specialising in development communication from Babcock University was yesterday elected Chairman of the federated maritime media chapel, FMMC, along with others at the NUJ, Lagos Council's State-of-the-Art Press Center in Lagos Dr Edomi who worked with TELL magazine for over a decade before becoming the Business/Maritime Editor of Money Post, established South South International magazine in 2006.He was equally a former publicity Secretary of Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria, former president of League of Maritime Editors and former media Consultant to Maritime Academy of Nigeria. Edomi, who hails from Eku, Delta State promised to ...

Nov12023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov. Diri approves consequential adjustments of N30,000 new minimum wage to pensioners … over 6,000 pensioners to benefit

News Feature

Governor Douye Diri has approved the implementation of the N30,000 New Minimum Wage adjustment for pensioners and other retirees in Bayelsa who were not captured when the policy came into effect. Over six thousand retirees are involved in this consequential adjustments to reflect current economic realities. This development is in fulfilment of a promise made by Governor Diri during the 2023 Worker's Day Celebration, following the submission of a report by an implementation committee headed by the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Alabo Gideon Ekeuwei. Speaking shortly after the Governor signed the implementation document, Alabo Ekeuwei said the approval was another indication of Senator Douye Dirii's friendly disposition to labour, particularly to retired senior citizens ...

Nov12023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Declining Oil Receipts: Apapa Customs Comes to the Rescue?

Misc

Indications are rife that the Nigeria Customs Service under the leadership of Adewale Adeniyi may have risen up to the challenge as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu intensifies his effort to bolster the revenue base of Nigeria's finances. This cheery news came to the fore yesterday when the Customs Area Controller of the premier Port of Apapa, Compt Jide Jaiyeoba told Maritime Editors that his Command would rake in at least N1.5tr into the Federation account by the end of December. Compt Jide Jaiyeoba who spoke yesterday in Apapa revealed that this feat was on account of the pragmatic leadership put in place by CGC Wale Adeniyi. He put the monthly revenue generated by the Command at average of over N110b. In past couple of months, receipts from the NNPC has continued to dwindle on account...

Nov12023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

DOUYE DIRI IS MARITIME EDITORS’ GOVERNOR OF THE YEAR…Ogbuku , Simbi also honored …….

News Feature, Politics

In an award letter signed by the BoT Chairman of the League of Maritime Editors, Elder Asu Beks, who also doubles as the Chairman of Planning Committee of its 25th Anniversary , Governor Douye Diri was voted "in recognition of his outstanding performance in the area of peace and security, infrastructural development, youth empowerment, education, human capital and sports development ", among other signature programs and projects of the prosperity adminstration of Sen Douye Diri. On his part, the Excutive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring, Engr Simbi Wabote was voted NIGERIA'S LOCAL CONTENT MAN OF YEAR, 2023.The League of Maritime Editors noted that under Engr Simbi Wabote's watch as the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board , "t...

Oct302023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Poll: PDP Calls For MacIver’s Arrest Over Inciting Comments

Misc, Politics

The Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council has called on the Inspector-General of Police and Director-General of the Department of State Services to immediately invite a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Joshua MacIver, for questioning. Chairman of the campaign council’s Publicity Directorate, Hon. Ayibaina Duba, in a statement issued in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Monday, said Mr. MacIver made inciting comments capable of truncating the peace of the state in a video now in circulation. MacIver, who is running mate to his party’s disqualified governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, made the incendiary comments during a rally in Twon-Brass on Saturday. In the video that has gone viral on social media, the former...

Oct272023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP Sympathises With APC, AIT Over Campaign Director’s Death

News Feature

The Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council commiserates with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state following the tragic boat incident that resulted in the death of the Media and Publicity Director of its campaign, Mr. Peremobowei Tukuwei. The PDP campaign council also condoles with the management and staff of the Africa Independent Television (AIT) over the loss of Tukuwei, a staff of the media organisation. It equally extends its condolences to the Tukuwei family of Ndoro community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state, noting that the state had lost a young man with great potential. Chairman, Publicity Directorate of the campaign council, Hon. Ayibaina Duba, in a statement on Friday, expressed shock over the tragic loss of ...

Oct262023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Poll: God Answered Sylva’s Prayer, Says Diri *Unveils More Projects In Sagbama Communities

News Feature, Politics

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has described the delisting of Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the list of governorship candidates in the November 11 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as answer to his own prayer. Governor Diri also stated that Sylva’s disqualification by a Federal High Court in Abuja was in furtherance of that prayer. The Bayelsa governor, who is seeking re-election on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, spoke at Ofoni community in Constituency 1 as he rounded off his campaigns in Sagbama Local Government Area on Wednesday. Diri recalled how the former governor told Bayelsans through a live programme on Yenagoa-based radio stations in November last year that the chapter of contesti...

Oct242023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP TO TIMIPRE SYLVA: QUIT GOVERNORSHIP RACE NOW

News Feature, Politics

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council in Bayelsa State has advised the disqualified candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11 governorship election in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, to honourably step down from the race as the odds were against him. Director-General of the campaign council, Dr. Mitema Obordor, gave the advice during the party’s Sagbama Local Government Area Constituency 3 rally at Agbere community in continuation of Governor Douye Diri’s re-election campaigns. Chief Obordor, who is also the House of Representatives member for the Ogbia Federal Constituency, said unlike the PDP ticket of Diri and Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, Sylva does not enjoy any level of acceptance across the state, which is pointer to his imm...

Oct222023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

More Trouble for Sylva as Court declares him ineligible to contest Nov poll.

News Feature, Politics

Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgement delivered on Monday, disqualified the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva. Justice Okorowo ruled that Chief Sylva having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of Bayelsa would breach the 1999 constitution as amended if allowed to contest again. The judge also declared that Sylva was not qualified to run in the November poll because if he wins and is sworn in, he would spend more than eight years in office as governor of the state. Citing the case of Marwa vs Nyako at the Supreme Court, Okorowo noted that the drafters of the country’s constitution stated that nobody should be voted for as governor more than twi...