News Feature – Page 46 – Shipping World News Magazine

Apr302022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Eulogies As First African Harvard Graduate Goes Home *Ekpebu, An Icon, Legend, Says Diri

News Feature

The first African graduate at the prestigious Harvard University in the United States of America, Amb. (Prof) Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, was on Saturday interred at his hometown, Okoloba, Sabagreia in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The late Nigerian Ambassador to the Ivory Coast was given a state burial by the state government. Amb. Ekpebu, who died on January 2 this year at the age of 87, also attended Princeton University, another Ivy League institution in the U.S. The late accomplished scholar, diplomat, public administrator and intellectual colossus set an enviable academic record at Harvard yet to be broken more than 50 years after. Speaking during his funeral service at the Saint Paul’s Deanery, Okoloba, Governor Douye Diri described Ekpebu as a...

Apr292022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BAYELSA APC CONDEMNS MURDER OF ITS MEMBER

News Feature, Politics

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State chapter, has condemned in the strongest possible terms the murder of its member, Mr. Sunday Frank-Oputu, at his Yenagoa residence earlier in the week. The party in a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, on Thursday, says no level of disagreement or conflict can justify the killing of anyone by another human being. “Only God gives life, and since human beings are not God, no one no matter the level of anger or bitterness should take the life of another human person”, he said. The party tasked the police and other security agencies to do everything within their powers to ensure that the perpetrators of the crime are apprehended and brought to book without delay. It expressed condolences with the family of t...

Apr282022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov Diri Orders Manhunt For APC Chieftain’s Killers *Dissolves Community Leadership Over Arson

News Feature

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has directed the police in the state to fish out killers of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Sunday Frank-Oputu. Mr. Frank-Oputu was assassinated by yet to be identified gunmen on Tuesday night at his Yenagoa residence. Governor Diri, who condemned the killing during the 73rd state executive council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday, described the incident as most unfortunate and unacceptable. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as calling on politicians to play politics devoid of violence. He assured that those behind the dastardly act will be unmasked and made to face the wrath of the law. He expressed his condolences and that of the government to the im...

Apr272022 by Steve AzaikiNo Comments

Obi Visits Diri, Says I’m Desperate To Make Nigeria Work *Bayelsa Gov Restates Call For Power Shift

News Feature, Politics

Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said he is not desperate to be president but eager to see Nigeria work. The two-term governor of Anambra State and vice presidential candidate of the PDP in 2019 stated this on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Douye Diri at the Bayelsa State Government House in Yenagoa. Obi said Nigeria was a great country with untapped potentialities, noting that he is desperate to move the nation away from a consumption economy to a productive one. He stressed that Nigeria was not working because of its unproductive state, which he said was unacceptable to the nation’s young, intelligent and smart population. The presidential hopeful, who reeled out the statistics of agricultural...

Apr142022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Hoodlums invade Bayelsa High Court,injure three persons ….sporadic shooting at APC secetariat

News Feature, Press Release

Hoodlums numbering over thirty on Wednesday distrupted proceedings into the hearing over a suit into the disputed ward,local government and State congresses of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Bayelsa State High Court. An official of the court, the claimant, Alex Blackson and his brother, Osom Blackson were injured during the stampede and violence inside the court. The presiding Judge, Justice Nayai Aganaba was stoned with plastic bottles by the hoodlums but was taken to safety by his police orderly. Leadership gathered that most of the lawyers in Court were also chased out, while those that came with the claimant were brutalised. Leadership gathered that the hoodlums may have been provoked by the allege insistence of the Presiding Judge, Justice Aganaba to hear the suit ...

Apr132022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov. Diri Pledges Support For Capacity Building Of Lawyers

Law, News Feature

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said he would support any initiative towards enhancing the capacity of legal practitioners in the state. Governor Diri made the pledge when President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, paid a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa, on Tuesday. He applauded the NBA President for the initiative to go round branches of the association nationwide to know their challenges. While commending Akpata’s vision for capacity building for lawyers, the governor said a basic problem of the judiciary in the state was training and retraining jand pledged his support for any training initiative. In response to a request that courts be also provided in rural areas apart from the state capital for easy access to justice, D...

Apr122022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Oil Firms, Regulatory Bodies Unfair To Host Communities,Gov Diri fumes

News Feature, Press Release

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has condemned what he described as unfair collusion of oil firms and regulatory bodies against the interest of host communities in the Niger Delta. Governor Diri stated this on Tuesday when the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as saying that part of the security challenges in host communities were as a result of the injustice and unfair treatment by the oil companies aided by the regulatory authorities. Governor Diri cited last November month-long oil and gas spillage in Nembe Local Government Area of the state from an AITEO Exploration and Production Limited facility, which eventually result...

Apr92022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA REDEPLOYS SENIOR OFFICIALS

News Feature, Press Release

Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has effected some changes at the upper echelon of the organization, in furtherance to its goal to reposition the country’s port system as the preferred cargo destination in Africa. In the latest redeployment, Madubuike E. Ugo (Mrs.), General Manager Monitoring & Regulatory Services, is now General Manager Public Private Partnerships (PPP); Williams E. Idowu (Mrs.), General Manager Public Private Partnerships (PPP) takes over as General Manager Monitoring & Regulatory Services. Engr. Ajibola S. Olagoke, General Manager Administration is now General Manager Superannuation; Moltok Josephine Adar (Mrs.) General Manager Servicom, moves to Administration whilst Musa Shehu Yaro, General Manager Procurement, now heads the Servicom Unit...

Apr72022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Exco Approves Nembe-Brass Road Project *Gov Diri Signs 3 Bills Into Law, Warns Aspirants Against Protest

News Feature

The Bayelsa State Executive Council has approved the construction of Phase One of the Nembe-Brass road in Bayelsa East Senatorial District of the state. This was disclosed on Wednesday at a joint press briefing after the 70th session of the executive council in Government House, Yenagoa. Addressing the press, the Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Ayibaina Duba, accompanied by his counterparts of the Ministries of Works and Infrastructure, Moses Teibowei, and Health, Dr Pabara Igwele, stated that the first phase will cover a distance of 21 kilometres with 10 bridges. Duba said the Governor Douye Diri administration inherited two senatorial road projects from the previous administration and promised to embark on the third one, which is the long-awaited road fro...

Apr72022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

AKINWUMI RICKETTS BOUNCES BACK AS NPA BOARD CHAIRMAN

News Feature

Reprieve has finally come the way of Chief Akinwumi Ricketts, Chairman of the Board of Nigerian Ports Authority who was unceremoniously removed from office under controversial circumstances last year. A statement yesterday announcing the composition of new Boards of Parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Transportation saw Chief Akinwumi emerge as Chairman of the new NPA Board . The statement signed by the Director of Press of the Ministry of Transportation said 'His Excellency, The President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR has approved the re-constitution of members of the Governing Boards of the following Parastatals under the purview of the Ministry: i. Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) ii. Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) iii. Maritime Aca...