Tag: Gov. Douye Diri
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Obey Supreme Court order, Bayelsa Govt urges RMAFC
The Bayelsa Government has urged the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to obey the Supreme Court order over the disputed Soku oil and gas fields, which ownership is in contention between Bayelsa and Rivers States. Gov. Douye Diri made the call on Thursday when he received a fact-finding team from the federal agency…
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Odioma Crisis: Bayelsa Govt. reads riot act to Council of Chiefs, sets up 6-man committee
The Bayelsa Government has given members of the Odioma Council of Chiefs in Brass Local Government Area (LGA), the option to either withdraw their membership of political parties or resign outright from the traditional leadership council. This is even as the state government constitutes a six-man peace and reconciliation committee to look into the immediate…
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Floods: Stop disturbing FG, deploy ecological funds to help victims, Kpodoh advises Gov. Diri
A former Security Adviser to Bayelsa Government, Chief Perekeme Kpodoh, has called on Gov. Douye Diri to deploy ecological funds that accrued to the state to help flood victims. Kpodoh, in a statement in Yenagoa on Thursday, said it was time for Diri to use the billions of naira he had so far collected as…
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Bayelsa govt denies reported rift between Gov. Diri, ex-Gov. Dickson
The Bayelsa government, on Thursday denied media reports which said that the relationship between Gov. Douye Diri and his predecessor, Sen Seriake Dickson, had become frosty. The Bayelsa Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Ayibaina Duba, stated this in a statement issued in Yenagoa while reacting to the news reports published in some online platforms.