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Aug212019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BAYELSA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: PROF MAUREEN ETEBU JOINS RACE?

Indications have emerged that Professor Maureen Etebu ,Vice Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University Okerenkoko in Delta State, may have indeed collected the nomination form for the governorship election in Bayelsa state scheduled for November 16. Her entry into the race brings to 7, the number of aspirants under the banner of the All Progressive Congress, APC. Usually dependable sources at the National Secretariat of the APC told our correspondent that Prof Etebu may have picked her form on tuesday. A confidant of the former Governor told our correspondent that the university don was in utter disbelief when she was informed that another APC chieftain, Chief David Lyon is the preffered candidate of former Governor,Chief Timipre Sylva. "How would His Excelle...

Aug202019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Go through Kyari, Mustapha – Buhari bars ministers from direct access

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

Published on August 20, 2019 By Wale Oduns He said this in his closing remarks at the two day Presidential Retreat for the incoming Ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He told the new cabinet members to be conscious of the fact that four years was not a long time. Buhari said: “In terms of coordination, kindly ensure that all submissions for my attention or meeting requests be channelled through the Chief of Staff, while all Federal Executive Council matters be coordinated through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. “Public service is not easy work, and at times it can be thankless. I am therefore charging you all to see this opportunity to serve as an honour, to give your best to deliver on this mandate, for a more prosperous Nigeria, not for some, ...

Aug202019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG inaugurates crack anti border patrol team.

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

The Federal Government has constituted a crack border team to tackle the rising wave of armed banditry and insecurity in the country as part of efforts to secure Nigeria’s land and maritime border. The team will comprise personnel of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in collaboration with the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) as well as the Nigeria Police Force. The collaboration will also involve other security and intelligence agencies will be conducting Codenamed"EX-SWIFT RESPONSE”, The joint exercise is being coordinated by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and will take place in 4 geopolitical zones, namely; South-South, South-West, North-Central and North-West. A statement by the National Public Relations Officer of ...

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigerian Maritime University VC, Prof Etebu joins Bayelsa Governorship Race?

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Politics

BREAKING NEWS : Barring any last minute change in plan, the Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria's Premier Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Prof Maureen Ongoebi Etebu, may today pick up the nomination form for the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State. She would be contesting under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC. It could not be confirmed as at press time if she had resigned from her position as Vice Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University. Prof Etebu had both served under Late Governor DSP and Chief Chief Timipre Sylva as Commissioner. Further details in our subsequent editions. By Asu Beks

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BAYELSA GUBER:GOV DICKSON TO PICK HIS “ANOINTED” CHOICE BEFORE SEPT 3 PRIMARY

Breaking News, Politics

Ahead of the Bayelsa Peoples Democratic Governorship primaries scheduled for September 3, 2019, Governor Seriake Dickson has insisted that he would not support any candidate outside the Restoration Restoration Group òf the party. The Governor also disclosed that the leadership òf the Restoration Caucus would decided on an aspirant to support in the primaries before the September 3, 2019 elections. A statement by the Special Adviser, Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the Governor as having made the remarks while inaugurating the Restoration Governorship Primary Election Committee in Government House, Yenagoa on Monday. The Governor said supporting any aspirant of the PDP outside the Restoration Group was one heavy moral burden that he was not prepared to carry. He ...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FOREIGN INVESTMENT INTO NIGERIA DROPS BY 43% – UN REPORT

Breaking News, Business, Politics

Foreign direct investment in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, plunged by 43 per cent to $2bn, according to a United Nations report. Reuters reported on Thursday that investors were put off by a dispute between the government and South African telecom giant MTN over repatriated profits. Banks HSBC and UBS both closed representative offices there in 2018. That left Ghana, which is in the midst of an oil and gas boom and saw inflows of $3bn, as West Africa’s leading destination for foreign investment. Italy’s Eni Group was behind Ghana’s largest greenfield investment project. It said the development of new mining and oil projects, a new US development-finance institution and the ratification of an agreement to create a continent-wide free-trade area could further boost...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

No End To Zoning Until South/North East Produce President in 2023 – Orji Kalu

Breaking News, Opinion, Politics

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has cautioned the northern political elite against canvassing an end to rotational presidency as from 2023. Kalu, a two-term governor of Abia State, stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja following the call by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, for an end to power shift in the country. He maintained that nobody should canvass an end to power shift until the South-East and the North-East geopolitical zones had produced the President of Nigeria. The principal officer of the senate noted that the agreement at the end of the 1978 national conference was that all the major ethnic groups in Nigeria must produce the President on a rotational basis. He said, “Calling for an end to the zoning arra...

Aug172019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP TICKET: DICKSON, ALAIBE DRAW BATTLE LINE

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

The Nation - cold war between the Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson and a former Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 16 election deepened on Wednesday. Dickson in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, accused the former NDDC boss of circulating video and audio messages to blackmail him. The governor called on well-meaning Nigerians to disregard what he described as a sinister blackmail orchestrated by Alaibe. The statement insisted that Alaibe was circulating a cynically manipulated version of addresses he delivered during political meetings and other fora with the intent to blackmail him for some political benefits. He said ...

Aug162019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Presidential Election Tribunal: We have proof that Buhari does not have a WAEC certificate – Atiku,PDP

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

August 15, 2019 Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party, PDP, said they had proved that President Muhammadu Buhari did not possess minimum academic qualification of a secondary school certifcate to contest for the Office of President of Nigeria. INEC had declared Buhari and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of the February 23 presidential election having won majority of the lawful votes cast at the polls. But Atiku and PDP had continued to insist that they and not Buhari won the presidential election of February 23. Atiku and PDP in their petition filed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on March 18 alleged electoral Irregularities perpetuated by the Independent Nationa...

Aug162019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Reps C’ttee gives NPA thumbs down for under-utilization Of Eastern Ports

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics, Port News

August 15, 2019 The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee seeking to determine why the Warri, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Onne and Onitsha Inland Ports Complexes are not being put to maximum use, has blamed the federal government (FG) and NPA for enhancing the deliberate plot to thwart business activities in these ports. The committee at its public hearing on the matter on Thursday noted that the abandonment of the Eastern ports has led to the overwhelming business performances and congestion of the western ports. Members of the committee who unanimously frowned at the presentations of several federal government agencies to support why the ports should not work, were of the opinion that there were underlying ulterior motives to the challenges paraded by the agencies. Various ag...