The Economic and Financial Crimes Commision on Wednesday opened its case in the money laundering case instituted against Mrs Beauty Apere at the Federal High Court Yenagoa.
The absence of EFCC star witness had on Oct 20 stalled a N200-million
money laundering suit against Mr Embelakpo Apere, and his wife, Beauty in
separate cases before the court.
Apere (Embelakpo) was aide on Sustainable Development Goals to
Bayelsa’s former Gov. Seriake Dickson.
Mr. Ogidi Bara, a loyalist of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa on Sunday applauded the election of a 25 year old as National Youth Leader of the party at the just concluded elective convention of the party.
Bara in a reaction to the emergence of Mr. Kadade Suleiman, the
newly elected National Youth Leader of the PDP noted that the party has
rediscovered itself and would come back to reckoning as its election reflected
the wishes of the electorate.
Bara who was a one time aspirant of PDP National Youth
Leader, described the emergence of Suleman, a youth in the true sense of the
word as a round peg in a round hole.
A rural development foundation in Bayelsa comprising eight communities in Southern Ijaw and Brass Local Government Areas of the state has suspended six of its 32 members for alleged misrepresentation.
The communities are Koluama 1 and 2, Ezetu 1 and 2, Foropa, Fishtown,
Ekeni and Sangana forming the acronym KEFFES as parties to the Global
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chevron and First E & P, two oil
firms operating in the area..
KEEFES Rural Development Foundation (KRDF) announced the disciplinary
measures on its erring members in a Communique issued at the end of an
emergency meeting and made available to newsmen in Yenagoa on Sunday
Mr. Piriye Kiyaramo, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Douye Diri on Tourism says that tourism at the community levels can turn the economic fortunes in rural areas in Bayelsa if properly harnessed.
He appealed to communities in the state to form tourism platforms such
as travel clubs or associations to liaise with appropriate agencies,
institutions and industry associations to profile their tourism
potentials.
According to Kiyaramo, who described community based tourism as an
alternative economic activity that bridges the social and economic gap of rural
communities
A Niger Delta youths group, the Niger Delta Youth Coalition for Progress and Peace, (NDYCPP) says it plans to honour the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mele Kyari for creating opportunities, transparency and probity.
The NDYCPP, noted that before Kyari assumed office as the
GMD of NNPC there were a lot of unresolved as well as lingering issues that
tend to hamper the oil sector from achieving its full potential.
They said that with the coming on board of Kyari he has convinced
industry watchers of the new direction of the NNPC by making the financial
books open transparently for public probity which have changed the opacity in
the system.
The Ijaw under the auspices of Ijaw National Congress (INC) said on Saturday applauded proposed plans to grant state pardon to late Ken Saro-Wwa.and demanded that an apology was most appropriate.
The INC urged the Federal Government should appease to the people of
Ogoni Kingdom, Ijaw nation and the entire Niger Delta for the alleged wrongful
killing of Saro-Wiwa in November 1995.
Prof Benjamin Okaba, President of INC made the position known in a
statement he issued in Yenagoa while reacting to the proposed state pardon by
the Federal Government for the slain Ogoni activist and writer.
A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Thursday granted bail to a teenage girl facing trial for cybercrime by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The DSS
on Monday arraigned the teenager before the court for circulating the nude
video of a retired Bayelsa permanent secretary on social media.
In the
one-count charge, prosecuting counsel, Mr Victor Uchendu, told the court that
the accused engaged in cyber-stalking by circulating the retiree’s nude picture
on a Whatspp group.
