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NIGERIA IN SORRY STATE UNDER BUHARI - TURAKI SAYS WE DON'T NEED PRESIDENT THAT TREATS HEAD, EAR ACHES IN LONDON   By our correspondent in Yenagoa Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson (left) in a warm handshake with the PDP Presidential Aspirant, Kabiru Turaki during a courtesy call at Government House Yenagoa. Photo By Lucky Francis. A former Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, on Friday, sternly criticised the state of affairs in Nigeria, under President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the country is in a very sorry state. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) spoke in Yenagoa during a courtesy visit to the Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, in continuation of his presidential consultation tour across the country. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Affairs, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted Turaki as saying that, under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led g...

BUHARI LACKS VISION, CAPACITY TO DEVELOP NIGERIA - SARAKI ...RESTRUCTURING NOT TO DEVELOP A FEW STATES  …SEIYEFA: BIGOTRY IN NIGERIA MUST STOP - DICKSON Report by our correspondent in Yenagoa Senate President, Bukola Saraki The President of Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, said that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, lacks the vision, capacity and the patience to develop the country. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor of Bayelsa State on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, quoted Saraki as having made the comment when he led his campaign team on a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa. Saraki tasked Nigerians to replace the current leadership provided by the All Progressives Congress, which he said, had caused disunity in the country. The Senate President stressed that the country was in dire need of a leader like him with demonstrable capacity to unite the deeply di...

LOKPOBIRI IGNORANT OF BAYELSA DEBT PROFILE, SHOULD BE IGNORED - DICKSON The Bayelsa State Government has described the claim by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, that the state government owes N800 billion as pathetic and the manifestation of a mind in custody of a raving hallucination. The State Governor, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, said in a statement on Tuesday, that the claim that the state government had borrowed N800 billion only portrayed the depth of ignorance of Lokpobiri about governance in his state. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr. FIdelis Soriwei, on Wednesday, the Governor expressed shock that somebody of the status of a minister could show a demeaning lack of capacity for a simple research to arrive at the truth in the interest of the general good. The governor described the minister's claim as a manifestation of the peaking frustration of a diaspora politician who has alienated himself from the ...

Senator Ike Ekweremadu INEC BAN ON SMART PHONES UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNACCEPTABLE - EKWEREMADU Deputy Senate President, Professor Ike Ekweremadu, on Wednesday, berated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its decision to ban the use of smart phones at polling units, describing the move as unconstitutional and unacceptable. Senator Ekweremadu made the comment while speaking to journalists during a condolence visit to the Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, at his country home in Toru-Orua community in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state on the demise of his 72-year-old mother, Mrs. Goldcoast Dickson. The governor's Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted Ekweremadu to have said the ban would go against provisions of the Nigerian Constitution, which gave room for freedom of communication, expression as well as freedom of the press, noting that Nigerians are free to express themselves through the media...

BAYELSA TO HONOUR EX-DSS BOSS, SEIYEFA HIS SERVICE EXEMPLARY – GOV. DICKSON Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has commended the immediate past acting Director General of the Directorate of State Services (DSS), Mr Matthew Seiyefa, for what he described as an exemplary national service. He said in recognition of his meritorious service to the nation, the state government will honour him at a grand reception soon. Mr Seiyefa, who served as acting DG for a brief period after the sacking of Lawal Daura, was last week replaced by Yusuf Bichi, a retired director of the service. Governor Dickson in a press release by his Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said Seiyefa, who hails from Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state, is a quintessential Ijaw man and a great ambassador of Bayelsa. He said the former DSS boss had a distinguished and meritorious 35 years of service to the nation for which the Ijaw nation is proud. He said ‘I...

HOW DICKSON MOBILIZED NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO MAKE JONATHAN ACTING PRESIDENT- TAMBUWAL By our correspondent in Yenagoa Gov. Seriake Dickson l in a warm handshake with Gov. Aminu Tambuwal  The Governor of Sokoto, the Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, on Sunday gave insight into how former President Goodluck Jonathan became Acting President through the popular Doctrine òf Necessity. Tambuwal said that the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, approached him in the heat of the tension that followed the incapacitation and death of former President Umoru Yar’Adua, in 2010, to work out the process that culminated in the emergence of Jonathan as Acting President. A statement by Governor Dickson’s Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, stated that Tambuwal spoke during a condolence visit to the country home of Governor Dickson, Toru Orua, Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. Tambuwal said that Dickson persuaded him to accept ...