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By Constance MejuKen Saro-WiwaThe federal government has been called upon to exonerate late environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight whose lives were horrifically terminated by the Nigerian government over trumped up charges by the Nigerian government in connivance with Shell over the killing of four prominent Ogoni sons.This was part of resolutions reached at the end of a one-day environmental summit organized by Environmental rights action and friends of the earth Nigeria and some civil society organizations in honour of the 25th anniversary of the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa, November 12, 2020, at Visa Karena Hotel Port Harcourt…

By Mbah Okemsinachi, Yenagoa In line with ills accompanying the year 2020, residents of Bayelsa State have continued groaning in pains 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 victim’s…

By Mbah  Okemsinachi, YenagoaVice-President Yemi Osinbajo, former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and former governor of the state, Chief Henry Seriake Dickson, were among prominent personalities that graced the 9th Bayelsa State Thanksgiving Day on Monday.The event which held at the 15,000-seat Ecumenical Centre at Igbogene near the state capital, Yenagoa, also had in attendance the national chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, members of the party’s national working committee, clergymen, as well as captains of industry.Governor DouyeDiri, again, extended his hand of fellowship…

We at the Rivers State Civil Society Coalition commend the setting up of the Panel on Police Brutalities in Rivers State by the state government led by Nyesom Wike. We congratulate the panel chairman and members, particularly the CSOs representative in the panel, Comrade Karl Chinedu Uchegbu, zonal chairman of the CLO, the foremost human rights organization in the country.Although we recognize that the task assigned to them is daunting, we are confident that they possess the experience, expertise, and all that it takes to achieve the aims and objectives for which the panel was set up.The panel is a…

We at the South South Zone of the Civil Liberties Organisation, C.LO, are seriously disturbed by the level of carnage allegedly perpetrated by Nigerian soldiers at Obigbo in Rivers State. Scores of citizens were reportedly gunned down while the lucky ones were chased into the bush where they stayed for several days, facing starvation.It is wrong, unacceptable and unjustifiable for a country’s army to be let loose on its people for whatever reason. It is very disturbing that the Obigbo carnage by the military took place few days after the same military was let loose on peaceful protesters at Lekki…

By Styvn Obodoekwe Long awaited judgment on the litigation over oil pollution between four Niger Delta farmers and oil giant, Shell at the Dutch Court has been fixed for December 18.  The date was announced by the president of the Court of Appeal, on October 9 when the appeal case came up for hearing at the Hague. While adjourning the case to December 18 for judgment, the Dutch Appeal Court president specifically requested that counsel to the four Niger Delta farmers be present in the court on the judgment day. The court further affirmed that it has jurisdiction to entertain…

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Thursday, marked the Eid-el-Maulud festival with the Muslim community in the state even as he sued for an indivisible and peaceful Nigeria where all tribes and religions would co-exist in love.Governor Diri, who hosted the adherents of Islam at the Government House in Yenagoa, said with religious tolerance, the country can forge ahead as a people with one destiny to make Nigeria richer and greater.The governor’s spokesman, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as expressing delight with the peaceful disposition of the Muslim community in the state.He said Bayelsa is predominantly Christian but his…

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has noted with satisfaction the conduct of the #EndSARS protesters in the state, saying they were peaceful and mature in making their demands.Governor Diri  commended the peaceful disposition of the youths on Wednesday while inaugurating the panels on Judicial Inquiry On Police Brutality and that on Security and Human Rights at the Executive Chambers of the Government House in Yenagoa.He set up both committees last week in response to the demands of the protesters when he addressed them at the Government House penultimate weekend.His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as…