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GOV DICKSON URGES IOCs, OTHER CORPORATE BODIES TO CONTRIBUTE TO EDUCATION TRUST FUND. .....GOVT SPENDS N500M OUT OF N800M IN ONE YEAR .....URGES BAYELSANS TO OWN THE TRUST FUND Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson on Tuesday, urged the private sector, particularly corporate organizations and individuals to make contributions to the State Education Development Trust Fund to enable indigent children acquire free and qualitative education. Governor Dickson stated this when members of the Board of the Education Development Trust Fund, led by its Chairman, Prof. Turner Isoun presented the 2017 report of the board to him in Government House, Yenagoa. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo, said the programme is targeted at delivering what he calls, "the democratization of knowledge" in the state. Calling on the people of the state to take ownership of the education programme, Governor Dickson n...

Buhari Dumped My Husband After 2015 APC Victory - Oluremi Tinubu Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the wife of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has opened up for the first time on how President Muhammadu Buhari dumped her husband immediately after the party won the 2015 elections. Senator Oluremi who featured in today’s ‘Your View’, a program on Television Continental (TVC) disclosed that her husband was ”trashed” after the APC victory. Speaking on the APC victory which saw the opposition defeating an incumbent administration for the first time in the history of Nigeria, Senator Tinubu said: “He was campaigning, I was too. We were running three campaigns in my house. And for him to be trashed like that? But I saw somebody who has love for this country. I hate to speak because when I stand in the front of God, I don’t want, because of this man, go to hell. “Occasionally, I would chip in and I would say, ‘You’re still helping out? Why...

GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA VISITS BAYELSA The governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson was visited by the German Ambassador to Nigeria. HE Amb Bernhardt Schlagheck to explore areas of mutual economic benefit especially education and Infrastructure. In his brief remark, the Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson stated the need for collaboration between Bayelsa and Germany. 'We need German collaboration and support in the area of vocational education. We have already built the schools. and only need your collaboration to transform them to world class institutions where  our people can learn become independent and add to the economy' The governor assured the Ambassador of the security status of the state stressing that it is the safest in the country. He yet spoke on the need to collaborate in the area of housing as it was his greatest desire to make housing more affordable for the citizenry. The Ambassador commended the developmental strides of the Governor es...

Gelegele Seaport: Edo Govt., Nigerian Navy strengthen ties to deliver project, as investors wrap up feasibility study Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has said that the Nigerian Navy has provided tremendous backing for the actualisation of the Gelegele Seaport project in the state, as its men are providing support to its foreign partners, China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), who are currently conducting feasibility study for the project. Obaseki also thanked the Navy for its swift response to security challenges, especially in the coastal areas of the state, noting that these gestures have endeared the Navy to the people of the state. Governor Obaseki said these in his remarks at the closing ceremony of the Nigerian Navy Retreat 2018, themed "Optimising Operational Availability of NN fleet" held from February 18 to 20, at the Nigerian Naval Engineering College, Ogorode, Sapele, Delta State. According to the governor, "We thank th...

SIXTH ANNIVERSARY: BAYELSA GOVT. THANKS OBASANJO , OTHERS FOR SHARING IN THEIR JOY. Bayelsa State Government has thanked former President Olusegun Obasanjo for spending three days in the state, commissioning remarkable projects such as the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital, World class Diagnostic Center and the Aquaculture village with 500 fish ponds. The commissioning of the projects was part of activities marking the sixth anniversary of the Governor Henry Seriake Dickson's Restoration Government which also saw the former president inspiring future leaders of the state during a special interactive session at the Ijaw National Academy. Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson in a statement released on Sunday said Obasanjo's visit to Bayelsa was a rare privilege and a great honour to the government and people of the oil rich and fast developing state. According to him the historic visit will remain memorable in the annals of the ...

I WILL HENCEFORTH UNDER GO MY MEDICAL CHECK UPS IN BAYELSA – OBJ Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, over the weekend said, the huge investments by Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State at ensuring quality healthcare delivery would soon turn the state into a medical tourism hub in the country. A press statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo, says Chief Obasanjo, who stated this during a command performance in his honour at the Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha Memorial Banquet Hall, Government House, Yenagoa, said he would henceforth visit the state regularly to have his medical check-ups. Obasanjo had during his three-Day visit to Bayelsa commissioned several legacy projects, including the World-Class Diagnostic Centre, Bayelsa State Specialist Hospital, the Bayelsa State Drug Distribution Centre in Yenagoa and the Aquaculture Village in Igbogene. He also interacted with students of the flagship free Model Boar...

GOVERNOR HENRY SERIAKE DICKSON CHALLENGES EXISTING STATUS QUO OF OIL BLOCK DISTRIBUTION IN NIGERIA …Says Oil Blocks are Ancestral Properties of the peoples of the Niger Delta. ….Signs Certificate Of Occupancy for two parcels of Land to house the Power Plant and Refinery of Azikel Group.   By Michael Egiethua in Yenegoa Gov. Seriake Dickon signing the C of O for Azikel Petroleum with Olusegun Obasanjo to his left and Godbless Eruani to his right.Representative of the GMD of NNPC is first from right. Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State at the occasion of the Foundation Laying Ceremony of Azikel Refinery Project in Obuma Community of Bayelsa State thanked the Federal Government of President Mohamadu Buhari for finding the Azikel Group and a son of the soil and the Niger Delta, Dr. Godbless Eruani, the group President of the Azikel Group fit and proper to be granted a Refinery and a Power generating License that has led to this Foundation Layi...