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Feb102021 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov. Diri Receives Senator, Ex-Reps, APC, YDP Defectors *Solicits IPAC’s Collaboration

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the political class in the state to shun politics of hate in the interest of development of the state. Speaking in Government House, Yenagoa, when he received defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Young Democratic Party (YDP) on Tuesday evening, Governor Diri said the only way they can benefit from creation of the state is to unite for the purpose of development. The defectors include former Nigerian Ambassador to Venezuela, Senator Felix Oboro as well as former members of the House of Representatives namely Hon. Bolous Indiamaowei, Hon. Mike Epengule and Hon. Graham Ipigansi, who are all returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from APC. A statement by the governor's Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Danie...

Oct182020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

I Support the EndSARS Protests – Gov Diri *Directs Release Of Illegal Detainees

Politics, Press Release

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said he is totally in support of the ongoing protest against police brutality exemplified by the hashtags #EndSARS and #EndSWAT across Nigeria. He also said his administration would not condone acts that infringed on the fundamental rights of citizens in the state. Governor Diri spoke on Saturday evening when the protesters in their hundreds blocked the Government House entrance in Yenagoa to press home their demands. His spokesman, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, in a statement, noted that the governor, who was returning from inspecting communities ravaged by flood, came out of his vehicle to join the youths that were waving placards and chanting slogans against police brutality. While addressing them, he noted that as a firm advocate ag...

Aug262020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Faults FG On Insolvency Status *Restates Call For Restructuring

Breaking News, Politics

Bayelsa state governor, Senator Douye Diri Bayelsa State Government, on Tuesday, described as incorrect Federal Government's categorisation of the state as insolvent due to its low internally generated revenue profile. It also restated its call for restructuring of the country to address the current lopsided federalism that denied states, particularly Bayelsa, the due revenue from the resources in their land and region. Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Elias Mbam, while receiving receiving the Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) from the Editor-in-Chief of the Economic Confidential in his office in Abuja on Monday, stated that Bayelsa, Borno, Katsina, Kebbi and Taraba states had become insolvent because of their “extremely poor I...

Aug242020 by Regent YoumorNo Comments

GOVERNOR BUNI-LED APC CARETAKER COMMITTEE TASKS AMEACHI, SYLVA ON PARTY’S RECONCILIATION, REPOSITIONING EFFORTS

Breaking News, Politics

Governor Mai Mala Buni (middle) with both Rotimi Amaechi(Right) and Timipre Sylva( left) The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni on Monday met with the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva at the Party's National Secretariat. At the meeting which was held close door, Governor Mai Mala Buni charged the ministers to work together and lead the Party's efforts to reconcile aggrieved party members and reposition the Party, particularly in the South South region. Ahead of the Governorship elections in Niger Delta states of Edo and Ondo as well as legislative By-Elections in Bayelsa and Cross River states, Governor Mai Mala...

Aug232020 by Our EditorNo Comments

Why Bayelsans should stop infighting, support Diri – Asu Beks

Breaking News, Politics

Elder Asu Beks Daniel Kanu Elder Asu Beks, president, Ijaw Media Forum is a journalist’s journalist. The Niger-Delta activist and publisher of Shipping World has been passionate and involved in the struggle for the emancipation of the Niger Delta region. He has gone through the thick and thin of the struggle told Sunday Sun that there is need for a new narrative in the region.He spoke on the nullification of the election of Bayelsa governor, Douye Diri by an election tribunal, what Bayelsa state needs, assessment of President Mohammadu Buhari’s leadership, 2023, and its strategies by different regions and the need for a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023, among other issues. Excerpt: The election tribunal gave a verdict during the week, nullifying the election of your s...

Aug182020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party in Bayelsa Guber election did not present a validly nominated candidate…INEC

Breaking News, Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said on Monday that the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party in the November 16, 2019 Governorship election in Bayelsa State did not present a validly nominated candidate. The electoral umpire said in a statement in Abuja that the nomination of its Deputy Governorship candidate Peter Esinkuma David was flawed because it fell short of the mandatory age limit of 35 years as stipulated in section 177(b) of the constitution. The electoral body was reacting to a ruling by the Bayelsa Elections Petition Tribunal, Abuja which declared the election of Governor Douye Diri as illegal and consequently ordered for fresh elections. In the statement, INEC said it observed that the Deputy Governorship candidate was born on the 10th day of February...

Aug52020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

President Buhari threatens to sack Service Chiefs

Maritime, News Feature, Politics, Port News, Press Release

President of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has once again threatened to fire the nation's security chiefs over nonperformance. The new threat came up Tuesday after a routine meeting with them at the Presidential Villa. This is coming almost 24 hours after the Nigerian Governors Forum rose from an emergency meeting in which they raised serious concerns over the rising wave of insecurity across the country . National Security Adviser, Gen Babagana Mungono , who briefed State House Correspondents said President Muhammadu Buhari expressed the concern of Nigerians over the worsening security situation in the country . Gen Mungono said the President sounded what&nbs...

Dec112019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Pension for Ex Governors: Buhari May Arrest Akpabio, Fashola, others

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has vowed to comply with the order of a Federal High Court, which directed him to recover monies being paid to former Governors that are currently serving as Senators and Ministers. The AGF said this in a statement made available to Journalists by his Media Aide, Dr. Umar Gwandu. Recall, that Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo made the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, on Wednesday. The suit was filed by SERAP, who had approached the court for an order of mandamus, to compel the Attorney-General of the Federation to file an action to challenge States’ pension laws for former Governors, and recover...

Sep292019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Internal Crises Rucks Bayelsa APC As Chieftains Battles Sylva Over Governorship Candidate

Breaking News, Politics

The internal wrangling in the All Progressives Congress (APC), which led to the inability of the party to field governorship candidates in Rivers and Zamfara states in the last general elections, may repeat itself in the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State, if the party does not put its house in order. Already, members of the party are locked in a battle of intelligence with a former governor of the state and current Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, over the choice of David Lyon as its flag bearer in the forthcoming election. Lyon had emerged the governorship candidate of the APC having polled 42,138 votes to defeat five other aspirants in the primary election of the party conducted on September 5, 2019 by the APC Bayelsa State Governorship Pr...

Sep252019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

I am ready to waive immunity to clear my name – Osinbajo

Breaking News, Politics

By Chijioke Okoronkwo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says he is ready to waive his constitutional immunity to enable the “most robust adjudication” of several baseless allegations, insinuation and falsehoods against his person and office. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said that the vice president made the declaration in a tweet he personally authored on Wednesday. “In the past few days, a spate of reckless and malicious falsehoods have been peddled in the media against me by a group of malicious individuals. “The defamatory and misleading assertions invented by this clique had mostly been making the social media rounds anonymously. “I have today instructed the commencement of legal action against two individuals, one Timi Frank and another Katc...