By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated the N24 billion Ogbia-Nembe Road in Bayelsa State jointly executed by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, the President, who was represented by the Minister...
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Multiple explosions were on Tuesday reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the gas plant feeds the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG)...
Fubara declares Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly as non-existent Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara has declared the Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly as floating and non existent and as such has no valid potency to take binding legislative decisions on the state following their defection. The Governor disclosed...
Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo has restated the Federal Government’s commitment in supporting private sector investments geared towards unlocking Nigeria’s gas potential for the benefit of the economy and citizens. Epko made this known on Friday in Abuja when he met with a delegation of...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “over the failure to arrest and prosecute suspected perpetrators of grave electoral offences in the recently concluded off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Governors Hope Uzodinma of Imo, Douye Diri of Bayelsa and Governor-elect Usman Ododo of Kogi, on their victories in the Nov. 11 governorship elections. The president in his congratulatory message issued by his spokesman, Mr Ajuri...
Elder statesman, Edwin Clark has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate alleged irregularities reported in the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship elections held on Saturday. Clark, who made the call when a group, South-South Diamond Ladies paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja, said alleged...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested no fewer than 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi. The Commission’s spokesperson, Mr. Dele Oyewale said this in a statement on Saturday...
The uploading of results from polling units for Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo is in progress. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as at 5:55pm, 1,417 polling units results for Bayelsa, representing 63.15 per cent of the 2,244 expected polling units results, had...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its personnel to monitor the Saturday’s governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States. The spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale stated this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Mr....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has called on politicians and their followers to eschew violence and conduct themselves in a peaceful and lawful manner, in Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. Jonathan made the call in a statement by...
The Labour Party (LP) candidate for Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa, Mr Udengs Eradiri, has said he is confident of victory during the poll despite the decamping of some of the leaders of his party to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He said he was not worried that...
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has no reason to fail in Saturday’s governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa. The Lagos State ADC Chairman, Mr George Ashiru, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, while speaking on the chances...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has no candidate in Saturday’s Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo governorship election, because it is not a political party. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a news conference held at the Kogi Headquarters of the commission in Lokoja...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has deployed its operatives to monitor the Saturday governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi. The spokesperson of the Commission, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, said this in a statement on Thursday in...
By ZAKAA LAZARUS, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday said it has observed rising trends and patterns of incendiary comments by some personalities of influence and representatives of non-governmental entities within and outside the country. The secret police also stressed that...
Since the return of democracy in 1999, several elections have been conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), though not without reservations, hues and cries by political actors, analysts and watchers. Of utmost concern to most Nigerians is the fact that every election since then has been...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Ali Biu has ordered operatives of the Corps drafted to cover the elections to ensure effective collaboration with the Nigerian Police Force, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and other security agencies in the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In continuation of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) preparations for the three off-cycle Governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, the Commission has made available two publications on the forthcoming polls. This is contained in a statement by the National...
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has warned that the police will not tolerate electoral violence in Bayelsa as off-cycle governorship election holds in the state on Saturday, IGP Egbetokun stated this during a courtesy visit to Gov. Douye Diri on Monday in Yenagoa. He stressed that...