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Jan192022 by Regent YoumorNo Comments

Breaking News ! Sylvester Oromoni. Ijaw Youths Head to Court. Brief SAN. Despatches Lawyer to Autopsy Panel.

Members of the IJaw Youths Council ( IYC ) Lagos chapter led by its Chairman Comrade Henry Oyobolo in a civilized and peaceful manner withdrew their protest from Dowen college premises which they occupied earlier to the Law Chambers of Anthony George-Ikoli, SAN to brief him over the questionable death of one of their own, Sylvester Oromoni. After series of meetings with a team of Lawyers from the SAN's Law firm in the past week, the Chambers this afternoon officially accepted to take up the matter and immediately despatched a Lawyer to represent it at theAutopsy Panel. During the Dowen protest, concerned elders monitored closely to prevent hoodlums from hijacking it and portray Ijaw people as violent, destructive and lawless. Before vacating the premises the youths warned the Schoo...

Jan122022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa To Give First African Harvard Graduate, Ekpebu, State Burial

Education, News Feature

Intellectual icon and first African to graduate from the prestigious Harvard University in the United States, Ambassador Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, will be given a state burial by his home state of Bayelsa. Prof. Ekpebu, who also attended another Ivy League institution in the United States, Princeton University, hailed from Okoloba Community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area. Ekpebu, who was Nigeria's former Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, died at the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa on January 2 at the age of 90. Governor Douye Diri disclosed this on Tuesday during a condolence visit to the family of the late accomplished scholar, diplomat and public administrator in Yenagoa, the state capital. Senator Diri described the passage of the Ijaw icon as a painful loss ...

Jan32022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Govt Donates Land For Proposed Anglican University

Education, Religion

Bayelsa State Government has pledged to provide land for the proposed establishment of an Anglican university in the state. Governor Douye Diri made the pledge in response to a request by the Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba, who led other bishops of the Diocese of Niger Delta West on a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa, on Sunday. Describing Anglican schools as strong institutions that contributed in producing responsible members of society, Senator Diri stated that hosting an Anglican university would positively impact on the state and the Niger Delta region. He said the state was eager to have its first private university and that the government would support such initiatives as it would accord the people more access to ed...

Mar302021 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov Diri Awards Scholarship To Another First Class Law Graduate *Receives NYSC Presidential Honorees

Education

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has offered scholarship to another first class law graduate from the state, Miss Pere Esther Amazige. Miss Amazige, who graduated from the Rivers State University in Port Harcourt, is the second female Law graduate to bag the scholarship after Miss Ebizi Eradiri that had a double First Class at the Niger Delta University and the Nigerian Law School. Senator Diri made the offer on Tuesday while receiving Miss Amazige and her mother, Mrs Joy Amazige, in Government House, Yenagoa. The governor, who assured her of his administration's preparedness to sponsor her education up to doctorate level in any university of her choice within and outside the country, congratulated her for achieving the feat against all odds. In a statement by hi...

Mar62021 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Maritime University Key Factor in Niger Delta Peace, Stability says Gov Okowa

Education, Maritime

The coming of the Nigeria Maritime University was instrumental in bringing about peace and reconciliation in the Niger Delta following a period of fierce agitation for economic justice in the region. Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, stated this in Asaba during a courtesy visit by Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh. Okowa said the maritime university located at Okerenkoko, in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta State, which was established in 2017, with the active support of NIMASA, had a stabilising effect on the people. “Indeed, the coming of the university gave birth to peace in the Niger Delta and we must appreciate NIMASA for its contribution,” Okowa stated. “I am glad that a lot is being done by NIMASA, particul...

Jan292021 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov Diri Constitutes Committee On NDU ASUU, HIJAC Demands

Education, News Feature

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has set up a special committee to look into the demands of the Association of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Niger Delta University (NDU) chapter as well as that of the Higher Institutions Joint Action Committee (HIJAC) in the state in order to address them. Senator Diri, who inaugurated the committee on Friday in Government House, Yenagoa, when he met separately with both bodies, expressed his administration's preparedness to ensure peaceful resolution of the welfare issues affecting staff of the state-owned higher institutions. In a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, the governor was quoted as mandating members of the committee to look into their demands and submit its report within two weeks...

Jan112021 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov. Diri Awards Scholarship To Double First Class Female Law Graduate *Names Eradiri New Face Of Bayelsa Girl Child

Education, News Feature

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Monday, announced automatic scholarship to Barr. Ebizi Blessing Eradiri for her Master and Doctorate degrees in any university in Nigeria or abroad. Miss Eradiri is the first female First Class graduate from the Faculty of Law of the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), a feat she repeated at the Nigerian Law School. Senator Diri, while formally receiving her and her father, Mr. Boloupaye Eradiri, at the Government House, Yenagoa, also offered her automatic employment to lecture at the NDU Facility of Law. The governor in a press release issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, assured her of the state government's support in advancing her educational career in any university of her choice anywhere in the world...

Aug52020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

President Buhari gives NDDC one week to pay fees of Students

Education, Maritime, News Feature, Port News, Press Release

President Muhammadu Buhari The Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari to pay beneficiaries of the commission’s scholarship in Institutions of higher learning within the next seven days. Charleston Odili, NDDC Director of Corporate Affairs, broke the good news after delivering the NDDC management’s invitation to Mr. President to inaugurate the 29-kilometre Ogbia-Nembe Road in Bayelsa state. The beneficiaries of the commission’s scholarship in the United Kingdom protested recently over the non-payment of their tuition fees The students who their protest to the Nigerian High Commission in London had expressed their displeasure over “negligence of their w...

Sep192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

72 bag First Class as Federal University, Otuoke, holds maiden convocation

Breaking News, Education, News Feature

The Federal University, Otuoke (FUO), Bayelsa State, will, on Septem 21, hold its maiden convocation ceremony for 1,121 graduands, with 72 of them in First Class category. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Seth Accra-Jaja, who disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday at Otuoke, said the event was part of the activities marking the maiden convocation ceremony of the institution. He said out of the 1,121 graduands, 72 will be awarded first class, 462, second class upper, 503, second class lower and 84, third class degrees. “The ceremony would be a combined convocation of students who graduated during the last three academic sessions of the university,” he said. The vice chancellor said the convocation was delayed because of the death of the Chancellor of the Universi...

Dec302017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

MAN, Oron would not compromise on Quality of our cadets – Rector

Breaking News, Education

Rector of Nigeria’s Premier Maritime Institution, the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Commodore Duja Effedua has pledged to transform the institution to one of the best in the world. The Rector who spoke exclusively to Shipping World said “under my watch the emphasis would be quality, quality, quality. And to achieve this we are going to turn the institution to a centre of excellence in such a manner that every cadet of the Academy would be a worthy ambassador of this great country. The era of mass production of half baked cadets is over “We are going to improve on the basic infrastructure needed for the Academy” he said. On the spate of abandoned projects in the Academy, Comdr Effedua revealed that only projects that are relevant to the cadets would 'receive our attention. He...