Collaboration with NCDMB, ITF, Others Is To Fast-Track Industrial Development- John-Jonah

Bayelsa State Government recently said that its collaboration with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NDCMB, and Industrial Training Fund, ITF, is to position the state for rapid industrial development. Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John-Jonah (retd) stated this during the Business Linkage Forum, which has as its theme: “Inspiring Local Business Growth Through Creating Partnership” at the Chief DSP Alamieyesigha Memorial Banquet Hall, Yenagoa. The Deputy Governor decried the lack of industrial culture in the state and urged all stakeholders to work together to bridge the gap so…

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Bad Leadership Cause Of Niger Delta Under-Development – Mulade

Comrade Sheriff Mulade, an environmental activist, yesterday stated that infrastructural decay and high rate of poverty in the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria was as a result of bad leadership. Muldae who made this known during an interactive session with journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, drew the Federal government’s attention to economic, environmental, communal and leadership crises rocking the region, which, according to him, have thrown the Niger Delta into a web of conflicting interests. He urged government to consider the setting up of a sustainable and comprehensive…

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2019 Poll: Gov Dickson URGES Security Agencies To Fish Out Abductors of NYSC Members

… Approved 100 percent Increase in Corps members Allowances By Elizaberth Joseph, Yenegoa Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has charged security agencies and Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Suleiman Kazaure to complement the efforts of the state government in fishing out those who manhandled corps members during the 2019 elections. The Governor who spoke when the Director General paid him a courtesy call on him in Yenagoa, said the call has become imperative in view of the reckless manner leaders of the All…

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BAYELSA GETS 9TH POLICE COMMISSIONER IN 15 WEEKS

  In another dramatic move yesterday, police authorities in Abuja, again removed the newly- posted Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa State, Mr. Joseph Mukan, replacing him with Aminu Saleh. Saleh is about the ninth police boss that has been deployed in the state since the removal of Mr. Don Awunah, a former Police Public Relations Officer. Governor Seriake Dickson had raised objections to some of the postings, accusing some APC leaders in Abuja of influencing police authorities and politicising the security of the state. A statement by the Police Spokesman…

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