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Sep152020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dakuku Peterside to deliver Lecture at Ijaw Media Forum, IMF,Town Hall meeting.

Gov Douye Diri , Asu Beks during the visit The immediate past Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside , will be the Guest Speaker at the Annual Town Meeting of the Ijaw Media Forum billed to hold in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital, in November. President of the Ijaw Media Forum, Elder Asu Beks who led members of the Forum on a Courtesy call on Gov Douye Diri on Monday said the theme of the one day Town Hall meeting is BAYELSA,BEYOND OIL. Elder Asu Beks disclosed that with the dwindling receipts from oil, the time has come for oil producing states in the Niger Delta region to think out of the box and explore the bundles of opportunities in the region. An elated Gov Diri told the visiting IMF team that the Bayels...

Aug282020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NCDC Certifies Bayelsa Molecular Lab

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated the newly inaugurated Bayelsa State Molecular Laboratory, Research and Diagnostic Centre as a COVID testing laboratory in the country. Governor Douye Diri The facility, which was inaugurated by Governor Douye Diri on Tuesday, brought the number of NCDC accredited laboratories in the country to 66 in 34 states. The NCDC in a letter signed by the Laboratory Network Advisor, Celestina Obiekea, and addressed to the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Health, stated that the laboratory had fulfilled the necessary requirements for a molecular laboratory to test for COVID as well as met all successful validations and optimisations. It further explained that the state will be responsible for procurement of consumables, equipment an...

Aug262020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Faults FG On Insolvency Status *Restates Call For Restructuring

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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 IG...

Aug212020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Buhari’ll End Nigeria’s Fuel Importation, Says Sylva.

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President Muhammadu Buhari The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) is committed to putting an end to the importation of refined petroleum products into Nigeria, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said. Sylva said the government was working to reverse Nigeria’s status as a net importer of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, and as such had been supporting the establishment of modular refineries to boost indigenous PMS production. The minister stated this after inspecting the Azikel Hydro-Skimming Refinery, the first hydro-skimming private modular refinery being built by businessman, Azibapu Eruani in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The refinery, which is about 75 per cent completed, has the capacity to process 12,000 barr...