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By Mbah Okemsinachi, Yenagoa In line with ills accompanying the year 2020, residents of Bayelsa State have continued groaning in pain as they recount loss of assets worth billions of naira following the perennial annual flood that hit the state and its environs amidst the #ENDSARS# crisis rocking the country.The flood which submerged the entire state upland areas has caused severe damages to both public and private properties, left many homeless, with the business community plunged into huge loss. This came barely few months after the country stepped out of the scourge of the global Covid-19 pandemic.However, expressing concern over…

By Constance MejuSince the 2012 flood which, submerged many coastal communities in the Niger Delta, especially, those by the banks of the Niger Delta, life has become a constant stress and an unending struggle with poverty.Every year, the people battle with ravaging flood which literarily transports them back to a state of deprivation, loss, misery and constant poverty.Unfortunately, for these community people, who bear the brunt of the hazards of oil and gas extraction to keep Nigeria going, no one cares about their plight so no development plans are put in place to reduce the effect of the flood. Their…

As the acting vice chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt looks deeper into the school’s records to resolve some contentious issues, which attracted serious public condemnation under the immediate past VC, the new helmsman, has been urged to look deeper and address another unwholesome matter, the expulsion of two PhD female students over issues with a self-appointed supervisor.Prof. Steve Okorodudu, the acting VC recently reversed a harsh law introduced by the former VC, Prof. Ndowa E.S Lale that was strongly resisted by students when suggested, leading to the death of a final year student. Its implementation caused agony for…

Dr. Francis NubariDoc, how would you describe the state of the health system in the country?Generally speaking, the health system in the country is in a deplorable state that we expect at least an emergency in that area reason being that, the administration is not being administered the way it should be. Ideally, we are supposed to have a primary healthcare system, a secondary healthcare system and a tertiary healthcare system. Incidentally, the primary system is in existence in its little way but the secondary is completely in a backseat because the secondary healthcare system is supposed to be a…

Our attention has been drawn to renewed threats on the lives of members of staff of Amnesty international by a faceless group which calls itself Center for Africa Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights (CALSER). Although the group claims to be a civil society organization. Suspicion is rife in some quarters that they may just be agents of the Nigerian repressive state which is hell bent on silencing credible voices exposing the atrocities of the government, including gross violations of peoples’ rights.In a recorded video, the group threatened to attack the offices of Amnesty International at Abuja to kill members of staff…