The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) on Monday advised ex-agitators to embrace entrepreneurship to move beyond the mentality of receiving N65,000 monthly stipends.
Dikio gave the advice while speaking to leaders of the second phase amnesty
programme in Yenagoa.
Dikio regretted that the ex-agitators
had allowed the stipends to become their limitation, restricting them from
harnessing their entrepreneurial potential.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) in Bayelsa on Thursday said for male candidates were arrested for vandalism at ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations.
Mrs Christiana Abiakam-Omanu, Commandant of the NSCDC in the
state, while briefing newsmen said the suspects were arrested at a
Computer-Based Test Centre in Federal University Otuoke.
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SYLVA.
Julius Bokoru, Abuja
It is 28 August 2019, a Wednesday,
and the rains still rage on, it is, after all, the heart of the West African
rainy season. Bleak balls of clouds, gray and oppressive, hangs just above the
11-storey Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation building, NNPC Towers, as
anyone within Nigeria calls it.
Timipre Sylva sits at his office, on
the 11th floor of one of the four towers, looking past the huge marble desk,
past flags of parastatals and the sky-blue of OPEC, past a bare, transparent
film of glass serving as wall and into a frenzied capital, Abuja, retiring for
the day. It is 4:30 and the sunset, then the rains, has come with the
exasperating inevitability of long line of cars, buses hurrying low-mid level
civil servants to the outskirts or, again, as we may be permitted to call,
satellite towns.
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| REPS OF COMMUNITIES ON KRDF AT THE AGM, |
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) on Thursday said Chevron/NNPC joint venture has committed over N3.5 billion to eight community clusters in Southern Ijaw and Brass Local Government Areas in Bayelsa since 2005.
The benefiting communities are
Koluama 1 and 2, Ezetu 1 and 2, Foropa, Fish Town Ekeni,and Santana forming the
acronym KEFFES.
Mr Esimaje Brinkinn, General Manager,
Policy,Government and Public Affairs, CNL who stated this while delivering a
goodwill message at the 2020 Annual General Meeting of KEFFES Rural Development
Foundation (KRDF) in Yenagoa.
The Bayelsa government on Wednesday indicated willingness to withdraw pending litigation against the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) over unpaid revenue running into billions of naira.
It would
be recalled that the Bayelsa government had dragged SPDC to court over failure
of the oil firm to pay ‘development levies’ for land acquired for the
construction of SPDC’s Gbarain-Ubie gas facility in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital.
The
immediate past administration led by Senator Seriake Dickson had instituted
various legal actions against some International Oil Companies for evasion of
taxes due the state.
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) says it has so far reported 51 leaks from its oil production activities in the Niger Delta in the current year.
This is
according to data obtained from the oil firm’s spills incident PORTAL. on Tuesday.
According to
SPDC management, 44 of such spill incidents were traced to sabotage by vandals
while seven of the reported leaks were caused by operational factors.
The Bayelsa Government says the discounted N27 billion refunds for Federal projects it received, instead of N38 billion, had been ploughed into infrastructure projects across the state.
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa
said this on Saturday in a broadcast to commemorate the 2021 Democracy day in
Yenago.
In
the broadcast, Diri explained that the N38 billion due to the state were
‘promissory notes’ rather than cash, which the government redeemed based on
experts’ advice.
The Bayelsa government on Thursday said it remained committed to delivery of quality jobs in constituency projects across the state and advised contractors to ensure compliance to job specification.
Bayelsa State Directorate for Project Monitoring and Evaluation stated
the position when it inspected completed and ongoing constituency projects in
the state on Thursday.
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Projects inspected include jetty at Sangana, Access Road Sangana, Concrete
pavement at Bekekiri, Concrete pavement in Twon Brass and Concrete
pavement, Ewoama in Brass Local Government Area.
Chevron Nigeria Limited, (CNL) says it remains committed to reducing emissions and finding cleaner fuels in the energy mix.
A statement issued by Esimaje Brikinn, General Manager, Policy,
Government and Public Affairs at CNL quoted Rick, Chairman/Managing Director of
the oil firm as making the assertion at the ongoing Nigerian International
Petroleum Summit in Abuja.
He said CNL has identified opportunities in lowering carbon emissions
and harnessing Nigeria’s gas resources as key enablers in complementing the new
approaches to future of hydrocarbons in the Nigerian oil and gas industry in
the post COVID-19 era.
The publisher and CEO of TarakiriVoice Newspaper, Mr. Passman Akpos, have been nominated among other African founders in the fourth edition of the prestigious Founders of the Year awards (FOYA), 2021.
Mr. Akpos who expressed joy over his nomination as the "Mediaprenuer of the Year" at (FOYA), 2021, is the only nomination from Nigeria.
Our correspondent reports that the FOYA awards which was launched in 2016 is an annual event that is geared towards serving strategic objectives of retaining, rewarding and recognising Founders of high quality and scalable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
The Bayelsa Livestock Management Committee (BSLMC) on Tuesday said it impounded 34 cows in Yenagoa for alleged violation of the state’s anti-open grazing law.
The cows were impounded around the Bayelsa Palm Estate in the state capital.
Mr David Alagoa, Chairman of BSLMC, told newsmen that the herders allegedly chose a convenient time in the night to graze, saying that some of the cattle were spotted grazing in farmlands.
The Bayelsa Government says it has resorted to use of traditional media to persuade residents to embrace its ongoing urban renewal policy.
The
Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Chief Ayiba Duba, made
this known in an interview in Yenagoa in Monday.
“Our
efforts in using the mainstream organs of mass communication have not been very
effective in changing the behavioural patterns of the people.
An environmentalist, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, has urged oil firms in the Niger Delta to clean up polluted onshore sites before moving their activities offshore.
Bassey
made the call in Yenegoa, on Friday at an oilfield dialogue with the theme,
“Building Community Resilience against Fossils Extraction.”
The
event which was organsied by Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) for oil
communities in Bayelsa was held at the banks of Taylor Creek, Agbia, Yenagoa.
