The Senator Douye Diri-led Administration has re-echoed its determination to use sports as a veritable means to attract greater fortunes and glory to Bayelsa State. The Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence stated this on Monday when he received the chairman and members of the 2022 Governor’s Cup Organizing Committee along with a team of scouts from Europe, during a courtesy visit […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has resolved to quickly end the incessant queues at various filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. In collaboration with the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, the company stepped up the supply of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, to the FCT from 70 to 140 trucks to combat the lingering […]
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The Vice Presidential candidate to Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Doyin Okupe, has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, cannot be the running mate to Rabiu Kwankwanso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party. He said it was for that reason that the planned alliance between the two parties didn’t succeed. Speaking on a radio […]
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…..Free Registration For Students, Special Prizes For Females Hosts of the Governor Douye National Scrabble Championship have said that N5 million has been earmarked as total prize money for the second edition of the competition. No fewer than 300 participants are expected at the Bayelsa State governor’s championship, which holds in Yenagoa, the state capital, on July 15-17. The Nigeria […]
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The filing of Companies Income Tax Returns for the 2022 Year of Assessment, due on 30th June 2022, has been extended to 31st August 2022, for companies who were unable to meet up with the deadline as of the end of June 2022. The extension of this deadline is contained in a Press Release issued by the Federal Inland Revenue […]
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….Calls for the preservation of Ijaw culture Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has again stressed the urgent need to allow the establishment of functional state-owned police across Nigeria. Governor Diri, who was speaking during the gala night to wrap up the 2022 Ijaw Diaspora Convention in Newark, New Jersey State in the United States of America, said the operations […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission’s support for sports development, with particular reference to the popular NCC-sponsored tennis championship for youth, dominated discussions at the launch of a book on sports in Nigeria in Lagos at the weekend. At the launch of the book titled ‘Sport in Nigeria: Going Round in Circles”, – authored by Sports Administrator, Godwin Kienka, at the Lagos […]
Read moreBy Tunde Odesola To all intents and purposes, Nigeria shouldn’t be compared with Australia. Because there’s nothing to compare. But if a crazed member of Nigeria’s ruling feudal class or any of their serfs feels otherwise, such an unfortunate fellow should be handed an apple and a pebble. After sinking his teeth into the apple and carving out the popular […]
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The supply of Electricity to the two local governments in Ede and its environs will improve remarkably very soon as work progresses on the construction of the 60 MVA Ede Power substation which had been under construction since March 2011. The member representing Ede North, Ede South, Egbedore, and Ejigbo federal constituency of Osun State in the National Assembly, Representative […]
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Top Executives of the South-West Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), to pledge its continuous support for the Federal Government by ensuring that Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) is available at the regulated price of N165 per litre, at retail stations. According to a press release […]
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