Rep Fred Agbedi, member representing Sagbama-Ekeremor Federal Constituency of Bayelsa, has urged members of his constituency and Nigerians to approach the New Year with hope and optimism.
Agbedi, who made the call in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Miriki Ebikebina in Yenagoa, called on the people to go into 2021 with renewed hope and optimism in God for better days ahead.
The lawmaker noted that 2020 had gone with its plethora of challenges and unsettling uncertainties.
Some 147 Ex-Militants have filed contempt process against Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Col Miland Dikio (Rtd) at Federal High Court Yenagoa for allegedly disobeying a judgment of the court.
The ex-agitators are seeking the enforcement of the court judgement to compel Dikio to pay the judgement debt or be committed to prison.
The ex-militants had in suit no. FHC/YNG/CS/70/2019 accused the Amnesty office of diverting the slots and stipends for the 147 ex-militants in two camps of 75 and 72 members from 2011 till date.
The Bayelsa government says it is pursuing the revalidation of the licence for the Atala marginal oilfields on Oil Mining Lease (OML) 46 earlier revoked by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
Mr Ayiba Duba, Bayelsa Commisioner for Information and Orientation said on Monday that the state government is pursuing an amicable resolution of the issues that necessitated the revocation by oil industry regulators.
Checks at the OML indicate that the field operated by Bayelsa Oil Company has been developed up to test production with a crude cargo of 1,000 barrels awaiting evacuation as the oil company awaits the nod of DPR to commence commercial production.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo has said that the recent apology by the All Progressive Congress (APC) over some of its statements during the Edo 2020 governorship election campaigns was an admittance that APC ran it's Edo 2020 campaigns on alternative truth.
This was contained in a statement on Monday by Mr Chris Nehikhare, the State Publicity Secretary (SPS) of the PDP.
Mr John Mayaki, Chairman Media Campaign Council of the APC in the Edo 2020 governorship election campaigns had on Friday apologised to the Akwa-Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) over alleged wrongfully accusing him
According to Nehikhare, the apology by Mayaki was an open admission of the obvious fact that APC ran its campaign on fake news, lies, alternative truth and other variants of fabrication.
A Nigerian firm First Exploration and Production (First E&P), has struck oil from an oilfield it acquired following the divestment of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) from the asset located off Bayelsa coastline.
Chevron had in 2015 divested from OMLs 83 and 85 while the asset was acquired by First E&P, an indigenous firm who now operate the oilfields in a Joint Venture agreement with the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation.
Following the development, First E&P has subsequently applied to the Minister of Petroleum Resources for an Oil Pipeline Licence to be constructed within the oil block, Oil Mining Lease (OML) 85.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders at Ezebiri in Bomodi LGA Delta on Wednesday urged the party’s leader Gov Ifeanyi Okowa to resist moves to substitute candidates who emerged victorious at the primaries ahead council polls.
The party stakeholders, Emmanuel Korokoro, James Ogori and Sunday Lagos who hail from the area made the appeal in an open letter to the governor on the brewing crisis sparked off by attempts to jettison the primaries and substitute elected candidates.
They said that upholding the results from the primaries conducted across the state would ensure internal democracy in the party.
Chief Newton Ogboinmienye, Paramount Ruler in Koluama 2, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Bayelsa, has urged youths from his domain to maintain the peace following a new nomination to the KEFFES Rural Development Foundation.
KEFFES covers Koluama 1 and 2, Ezetu 1 and 2, Foropa, Fishtown, Ekeni and Sangana, the communities are parties to the Global Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chevron and First E & P which funds development projects in the area.
Ogboinmienye, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Monday made the appeal following a disagreement over his nomination of a youth representative who emerged from an election.
