2019: PDP BEGINS INTENSIFIED CONSULTATIONS WITH FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS ..THANKS TAMBUWAL, MAKARFI FOR SHOWING UNDERSTANDING ...AS DICKSON, OKOWA, ISHAKU VISITS TAMBUWAL, MAKARFI The Peoples Democratic Party has commenced intensified consultations with the 12 Presidential aspirants of the party who lost out in the party’s national convention in Port Harcourt on October 6, 2019.The PDP governors also hailed Tambuwal and Makarfi for their understanding and spirit of sportsmanship in the last national convention of the party. The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson led his counterparts from Delta and Taraba States, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and Governor Dairus Ishaku, respectively to hold consultative meetings with Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and a former caretaker Committee Chairman, Dr. Ahmed Makarfi in Abuja on Monday. Both politicians were frontline presidential aspirants of the PDP. A statement by t...
Bayelsa Governor Seeks Colleagues' Cooperation For Cleaner Niger Delta Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has called for joint action among governors of the Niger Delta states in the region's struggle for a cleaner environment. Senator Diri also called on the people not to contribute to environmental genocide in their localities but to shun illegal refining of crude and embrace intellectual approach in the agitation for the clean-up of the region. Governor Diri made the call at the weekend during an online global conference on “The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Aquatic Flora and Fauna of the Niger Delta” to mark this year’s World Environment Day. The Bayelsa helmsman, who was represented by his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, expressed displeasure over the decades-long environmental injustice in the region, said the situation was worsened by the unfair derivation sharing formula of the federal government to the oil prod...
ARE WE BEING FOOLED OR FOOLING OURSELVES? By Caesar Kagho It’s reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat. And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure! This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right. The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971...
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