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The PDP Governors’ Forum comprising all elected Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party held its regular meeting on Wednesday, 23rd March, 2022, at Aba, Abia State. The meeting reviewed the excruciating hardship and suffering being meted out to Nigerians by a failed APC led Federal Government; the near collapse of the APC as a viable political party, the readiness of the PDP to take over and offer qualitative leadership options to rescue the nation and issued the following Communique:1. We lament the terrible pain and hardship facing Nigerians in virtually all aspects of life. The meeting noted that life was much…

International Adolescent Health Week, celebrated on the 20 -26th of March yearly, is an opportunity for young people, parents, care givers, health care providers, teachers, advocates and communities to come together and celebrate young people with the goal of working collectively towards improving the health and well-being of the over 1 billion adolescents across the globe. The international theme for year 2022 is titled “Transitions” from childhood to adulthood, physically and mentally from a pre-pandemic life into a life shaped by a pandemic from dependence to independence. In Nigeria, the celebration for the year is titled, transition: Building a case…

Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Good luck Ebele Jonathan has commended ERASKCORP Nigeria Limited for bringing the company down to Bayelsa State maintaining that the establishment of the company will improve the internally generated revenue of the state. Speaking on Thursday in Yenagoa during the unveiling of the ERASKON products, Jonathan stated that the company when operational will also generate more employment for the people especially the locals. He advised that the company should employ more of its staff from the host community. Lamenting that the oil industry supposed to positively impact on the host communities was not doing so,…

Why am I saying all this? The point I am trying to make is this: When you go through a shipwreck when something you held dear is destroyed or shattered, kindle the fire first before you do anything else!A ship that carried Paul and others, while going through a storm was destroyed. Paul held on to just one plank and landed on the island of Malta. He was on his way to Rome to stand before the law makers. The first thing he thought of when he was shipwrecked was not that he needs to build another ship (so he…

Events marking the birthday celebration kick-started with a thanksgiving at John Mary Vianney Catholic Church, Asaba.The thanksgiving was well attended by family members, friends and well wishers drawn from all walk life.At the reception venue, various dignitaries, who graced the occasion eulogized Ezinne as a woman of substance, disciplinarian and a good mother to all around her.Family members, including her son and daughter-in-law described Ezinne as one in a million. Her daughter-in-law described her as a good mother that any woman would want as a mother-in-law.The grandchildren were not left out, as they had words to describe Ezinne as the best…

The Nigeria Police Force, established in 1930 and Africa’s largest police department has proved difficult to effectively manage and control, and has become largely unaccountable to the citizens it is meant to serve.No doubt majority of Nigerian police officers conduct themselves in an exemplary manner, serving in difficult and often dangerous environment, abysmal working conditions, appalling salaries and poor welfares. In 2009 alone, some 250 policemen and women were shot and killed in the line of duty and that number has continued to grow since then to now, attributable to serving as a police officer in what has become one…

Ijaw nation, the Niger Delta, Nigeria, and indeed Africa, have lost a titan with the exit of Ambassador Professor Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu who passed on to glory on 2nd January 2022.A cool, calm and collected teacher and an unflappable diplomat, Ambassador Professor Lawrence B. Ekpebu, right from his days as a student at Harvard University in the mid-1950s when racism was widespread in the United States of America, made Africans proud by demonstrating that it is possible to break barriers, move mountains and raise standards without noise and fanfare but by sheer determination and willpower. He excelled over his peers…

The Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center in Nigeria recently hosted an Exchange Learning and Solidarity visit with fourteen delegates from Botswana, Sierra Leone together with local activists and community members. The six-day exchange took delegates through the three Niger Delta states of Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom with visits to key sites, dialogues with traditional leaders, women groups and youth impacted by oil and gas extraction activities.From the field experience and follow up discussions between Niger Delta women and the exchange team, there was a general consensus that natural resources have not been a blessing to Africa, especially, women…

Governors of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, across the 36states of the country, national chairman of PDP, Senator Iyocha Ayu, members of the National Assembly, captains of industries and traditional rulers, were in Bayelsa State, Monday, February14, 2022, to witness the commissioning of the Ernest Ikoli Media Complex built by Governor Douye Diri. It was part of activities marking the celebration of his two years ‘Prosperity Administration’. Speaking during the occasion, the governor, Senator Douye Diri recounted that some of the situations that made him to take the decision to put up the master piece were natural situations that affected…

After the dramatic attack on Kpofire sites by the Nyesom Wike administration in January 2022, the operators are fully back in business right inside Port Harcourt neighbourhoods. Rivers State is the capital of the trade in illegal siphoning and refining of crude oil that has left the state in the grip of choking soot that threatens the health, environment and lives of residents. Elsewhere in the states of the Niger Delta, criminal gangs involved in the business threaten citizens including local chiefs and government officials who oppose their bid to set up refining sites in the creeks of these states.…