Activities commemorating the 2013 Major Isaac Adaka Boro Day celebrations came to a climax yesterday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State with Governor Seriake Dickson conferring an honorary citizenship of the State on African American human rights activist, Reverend Jesse Jackson. Governor Dickson also gave Reverend Jackson an Ijaw name, “Izontariowei”... Read more
Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and... Read more
South Sudan’s president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders. Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya’s post-election violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people. Kiir said... Read more
A government spokesman says at least 15 people were injured, four of them by bullet wounds, during a protest in Guinea’s capital between opposition parties and security forces. The clashes are the latest iteration in the ongoing fight between the country’s opposition and the ruling party over the details... Read more
In a clear demonstration of concern over flooding affecting some residents of Yenagoa as a result of ongoing road construction works, the state Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah has undertaken an assessment tour of some of the affected parts of the town. Speaking to newsmen at the... Read more
By Dianabasi Effiong No fewer than 2,000 people have further been displaced by a devastating windstorm which ravaged a school block serving as refugee camp for Bakassi returnees in Cross river. The building, located in St Mark’s Primary School, Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem, Akpabuyo Local Government Area, was used as a temporary camp... Read more
Writer Chinua Achebe, whose works focused on the conflict between modernity and the way of life in rural Nigeria, has returned home for the final time. Achebe’s corpse arrived Wednesday in his native Anambra state. There, local government officials and writers feted the late novelist, who died in March... Read more
By Dianabasi Effiong Dr. Ani Etokidem of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has won a research grant to carry out an intervention study on maternal mortality. Etokidem is a former Sub-Dean and current Head, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences at UNICAL. The... Read more
Bayelsa governor urges leaders to promote unity
Nigeria May 22, 2013
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon, Seriake Dickson has urged leaders across the country, especially those in the South-South to exercise restraint in their utterances in order not to heat up the polity. Governor Dickson sounded this note of caution when he received the South-South Monarchs Forum who paid him... Read more
The Survey report of the proposed Agge Deep Seaport in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has been presented to the state Government by the Nigerian Army Engineers. The Deep Sea Port is to occupy an area of about eight thousand hectares, which is an increase from the... Read more
