Author: Preye Okah

A researcher at the University of Africa Toru-Orua has developed a prototype BioGas plant that converts waste into methane gas for cooking. The project, funded by the Bayelsa State Education Development Trust Fund (BYEDTF), offers a potential solution to waste management and the rising cost of cooking gas. Dr. Faith Ogbole demonstrated the plant’s functionality, explaining that it utilizes various waste materials, including plantain peels, animal dung, and grasses. The gas produced is purified and can be used for cooking. Ogbole highlighted the project’s potential for job creation and environmental improvement. BYEDTF officials, including Acting Chairman Prof. Francis Sikoki, visited…

Bayelsa Electricity Company Ltd, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment, initiated the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a proposed 60 MW power plant in Elebele. Governor Douye Diri has stated that the project will end the state’s reliance on the national grid and provide uninterrupted power supply. The Director of Operations of the Bayelsa Electricity Company Ltd, Steve Bubagha Jnr., led the Minister of Environment’s team to the project site. He explained that the “Plug and Play” gas turbine will utilize gas feed from the Oando gas manifold and is expected to be operational within two years. The…

Leaders of the Ogbia Kingdom have expressed their support for Dr. Sam Ogbuku as Managing Director of the NDDC and appealed to aggrieved groups to embrace dialogue instead of protests. The Obanobhan of Ogbia Kingdom, HRM King Dumaro Charles-Owaba, and the Acting National Chairman of Ogbia Brotherhood, Dr. Azibalaguo Seibofa, commended the appointment and thanked the people of the nine NDDC states for their support. The Ogbia leaders highlighted the historical neglect of the kingdom despite its significant contributions to the nation’s oil and gas wealth. They appealed for understanding and support for Ogbuku, emphasizing the kingdom’s history of supporting…

…pledges FG commitment to revitalizing all critical infrastructure in N/Delta The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri has expressed dissatisfaction over the abandonment of the Brass Modern Refinery project in Bayelsa State.The Minister, who visited the site of the refinery on Wednesday, said, “It is unacceptable that such a strategic project has been left in this state for so long.“The Federal Government remains committed to ensuring that critical oil and gas infrastructure, like the Brass Refinery, is completed to create jobs and drive economic growth in the region.“I sincerely commend the people of Brass for their patience…

As Search for Common Ground, an International Non Governmental Organizations (SEARCH) sets to wind up in the Niger Delta, it has revealed that through its peaceful intervention in the region, illegal oil bunkering has reduced giving way for improved crude oil returns for Nigeria. Making the revelation in Port Harcourt Rivers State, Sunny Dada, the Mass Media and Information Management Coordinator of SEARCH, said the group was able to achieve that because it located communities that were into illegal oil bunkering. He also applauded the effort of security agencies who he said contributed to the success story. Dada spoke at…

As Search for Common Ground, an International Non Governmental Organizations (SEARCH) sets to wind up in the Niger Delta, it has revealed that through its peaceful intervention in the region, illegal oil bunkering has reduced giving way for improved crude oil returns for Nigeria. Making the revelation in Port Harcourt Rivers State, Sunny Dada, the Mass Media and Information Management Coordinator of SEARCH, said the group was able to achieve that because it located communities that into illegal oil bunkering. He also applauded the effort of security agencies who he said contributed to the success story. Dada spoke at the…

In commemoration of the 2024 International Day of the Girl Child and the 20th Anniversary of the Nice Esther for all Foundation (NEFAF), the Nice Esther for all Foundation and the Nice Esther Alamieyeseigha Rescue Initiative (NEARI) has enrolled 56 indigent students from Amassoma community in Bayelsa State in an education insurance scheme. The scheme which is sponsored by Nice Esther for All Foundation (NEFAF) will cover a period of six years academic sessions. The beneficiaries are in primary and secondary schools. Speaking at the event, founder, NEFAF, Dr. Nice Tobolayefa Alamieyeseigha, the (Ebimiere Ogboin) said the project was in…

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has sought the partnership of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) on the sustainable peace and security initiatives of the Programme for the stability of the Niger Delta region and indeed Nigeria. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the National Coordinator of the NCTC, Major General Adamu Laka, in Abuja, the PAP Administrator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, said the partnership of the centre would help deepen the programme’s ongoing peace and security process in the region. Otuaro, in a press release issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Igoniko Oduma, said his administration would be…

The Niger Delta Development Commission has agreed to issue out about 200 Tablets with a U-lesson Educational application embedded in them to secondary schools in Bayelsa State. Already the commission has given out six of the Tablets to representatives of different secondary schools that were present at the launch of the application. Speaking during the launch of the U-lesson Educational Tablets in Yenagoa, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku the managing director of NDDC represented by George Uzonwanne, Director Education, Health and social services, NDDC stated that NDDC in the pursuit of her interventionist mandate in the region, has continued to support the…

Niger Delta Stakeholders have called on the International Oil Companies operating in the region planning to move to off-shore in the name of divestment to make sure that they clean up the mess (pollution) they left on the environment through oil and gas exploration before they divest. The people recently in Yenagoa, when a group known as Dataphyte, organised a stakeholders meeting to ascertain the level of damage done to the land and to the people as the oil companies move away from land to the sea. Mr. Warder Benjamin from Ikarama Community and President, Yenagoa Federated Youth Council, in…