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Saturday, February 17th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government is embarking on a 13-day aggressive measles immunisation for children between the ages of 9 months and five years, the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, has said. The measure is part of efforts to prevent children from untimely death and other serious lifelong complications associated with the […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over 5000 key actors in All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in what looks like a signal to the 2019 general elections in Bayelsa state. Among those who defected to the PDP included a returnee former State Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Tarila Tebepa; former […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana will tomorrow lead two other former ministers of Information to Bayelsa State for the commissioning of the BAYELSA State Information House. The two other former ministers, Chief John Odey and Mr. Labaran Maku will be joined by other prominent Nigerians including media Executives, editors, notable […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State House of Assembly has slammed commercial banks operating in the state over alleged outrageous and unwarranted charges being imposed on customers, calling on the nation’s apex bank, the Central bank of Nigeria, CBN to intervene. Moving a motion during its plenary on the issue, […]
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Monday, February 12th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Sunday said his administration had in the last six years succeeded in laying the foundation for development, prosperity and greatness. The governor added that despite the challenges, temptations and victories, his administration, in partnership with the people of the State, have steered the State […]
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Saturday, February 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The lingering crisis between the Medical Director of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Dr. Jojo Onwukwe and the workers has aggravated as they have declared an indefinite industrial action through the Health Sector Union, JOHESU. According to the workers, the indefinite strike is over non-payment of their salary and other arrears, disclosing […]
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Friday, February 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has backed the decision of the Federal Government to the establish state police in Nigeria. Dickson said that the prevailing security situation and the need for an effective response to the current crime challenge have made it mandatory for the establishment of state […]
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Thursday, February 8th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has commended the women wing of the Ogbia Brotherhood for championing the course of the girl child in Ogbia kingdom. He gave the commendation on Thursday when members of the group paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Yenagoa. The […]
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
Photo: Hon. Maria Ude Nwachi From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The two weeks suspension earlier slammed on the All progressive Congress APC female member of the Ebonyi state House of Assembly, Hon. Maria Ude Nwachi over alleged gross misconduct, was on Tuesday extended to six months. Recall that the House had about two […]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sokoto state government said has introduced specialised ambulances to deepen access to medical care and improve emergency service delivery across the 23 local government areas of the state. The state commissioner of health, Dr. Balarabe Shehu Kakale, told journalists in Sokoto Tuesday that already, 300 vehicles equipped with necessary health gadgets and […]
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Monday, February 5th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pressure group, Bayelsa East Ambassadors (BEA), on Monday condemned the violence that sparked off last weekend during the youth election in Okpoma, Brass Local Government Area of the state. The BEA blamed killings recorded in the scuffle on ex-governor, Timipre Sylva and the lawmaker representing Brass constituency 1 in the State […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State government has concluded plans to build tank farms for petroleum products, the State Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Elder Markson Fefegha, has said. The tank farms would serve as reservoir to cushion the adverse effects arising from scarcity of petroleum products on people in the state. The Commissioner stated this on […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director General of Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Osita Anthony Aboloma has warned against the importation, marketing, supply and use of substandard tires in Nigeria, saying such inferior products has sent scores of innocent citizens to their untimely graves and done serious harm to the nation’s economy. According to him, substandard tyres […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government has concluded arrangement to launch a crime control drone system to assist in the prevention of crime and criminality, the State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Chief Blessing Ipigansi-Igbagara, said on Wednesday. The mechanism was developed by an indigenous manpower and technology system in line with the present administration’s […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rector of Institute of Management and Technology IMT Enugu, Professor Augustine Njeze, is now in trouble, as the Enugu State House of Assembly, has mandated its House committee on Education to investigate all manners of alleged corrupt practices leveled against him by students and other stakeholders. […]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
…Politicians Should Desist from Violence, Says Commissioner (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa Govt reiterates commitment to zero tolerance to crime, criminality, as state security outfit discloses arrest of 8,500 suspects in six years Over 8,500 suspects have been arrested in the last six years for various criminal offence by Bayelsa State Security outfit code-named, Operation Doo […]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has debunked claims in certain quarters that he is planning to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he left with some other chieftains of the party prior the 2015 general elections. In a statement on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]
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Monday, January 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson on Monday directed the immediate payment of January salary to civil servants and political appointees. The directive was contained in a statement issued to journalists by the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson. The statement noted that the move is in line with […]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over ten thousand youths at the weekend gathered in Ogbia main town, headquarters of Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State for a solidarity rally in honour of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson. The jubilant youths who defiled an earlier attempt by authorities of the council to prevent them from holding the event, […]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2018
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tragedy struck on Saturday at Gariki Ugwuoba in oji River Local Government Area of Enugu state as two persons said to be excavating sand at a site in the area got buried when the sand slided. The state police public Relations officer PPRO, Ebere Amarizu, who made this known […]
