Tag: bayelsa
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Exploration impact: All rivers in Bayelsa are filled with crude – Sen Dickson [PHOTO]
…bags GICES award for excellence in environmental services to mankind Ex-Governor of Bayelsa and a serving Senator, Henry Seriake Dickson has said due to decades of oil exploration, all rivers in his home state are filled by crude. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports Dickson made this revelation after receiving an award by a coalition of environmental NGOs…
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2020 reloading in Bayelsa as APC deputy gov candidate, MacIver risks disqualification
Barely four months to the Bayelsa State guber election slated for November 11, 2023, by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, strong indications have emerged that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Timpre Sylva and his running mate, Joshua Maciver, risk disqualification. Recall that in 2020, the running mate of APC guber…
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We’ll win November 11 guber elections in Imo, Kogi, Bayelsa states – PDP boasts
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has boasted that it will win the November 11 governorship election in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi States, going by the level of its acceptability by the people. The acting National Chairman, PDP, Umar Damagum, said this in Abuja at the inauguration of the party’s National Campaign Council for the election…
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Group urges Tinubu to compensate members with appointments
The defunct Tinubu/Shettima Independent Campaign Council (ICC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has urged President Bola Tinubu to give its members priority in the appointment of people into federal positions.
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Bayelsa: Aggrieved APC aspirant prays court to stop Sylva’s governorship bid
Mrs Ogbomade Johnson, an All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant for the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship election, has challenged the emergence of Mr Timipre Sylva as candidate of the party for the poll. Johnson made the prayer in a fresh suit filed by her team
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Just In: Ex-Governor of Bayelsa State is dead
The former governor of Bayelsa state, Nestor Binabo, is dead. His death was announced by his son, Mr Binabo Momos. It was revealed the late politician died on Thursday in Abuja after a prolonged battle with an undisclosed illness. Binabo served as acting Governor of Bayelsa from January 2012, after Timipre Sylva was ousted by…
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I’ll respond to suit challenging my emergence as APC candidate, Sylva tells court
Mr. Timipre Sylva, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 governorship election in Bayelsa, on Monday, said he will respond to a suit seeking his disqualification at the appropriate time. Sylva, the immediate-past Minister of State for Petroleum, told Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja through his lawyer,…
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LP kicks against delay in conduct of LGA election in Bayelsa
Labour Party has vowed to stage a peaceful protest over Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa’s alleged outright refusal to conduct local government elections. The Factional National Chairman of the party Lamidi Apapa, made this known in a statement in Abuja.
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Bayelsa: Heavy ‘wahala’ for Sylva as Court grants application in process to halt his guber ambition
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the application for substitute service by Chief Demesuoyefa Kolomo, a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC on his motion to order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delete the name of Timipre Sylva, former Minister of State for Petroleum, from list of candidates contesting the…
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NDLEA intercepts illicit drugs in wedding gown, nabs 400-level undergraduate
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two drug consignments consisting of ecstasy and skunk going to United Arab Emirate. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that NDLEA officers attached to courier companies made the interception.