By Amos Odeh from Yenogoa LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Concerned stakeholders in the Niger Delta have called for sanctions against environmental offenders in Nigeria, saying that such offenders are becoming bolder by the day because they do not face the consequences of their actions, especially in the region that had suffered adverse effects of oil spills…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm that the All Progressives Congress is stockpiling arms in Bayelsa State in the build up to the 2019 general election. The State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Moses Cleopas, alleged in a statement on Thursday that the leaders of the APC…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NESWSRANGERS0-The Bayelsa State government on Sunday raised the alarm over increase in the number of coastal communities submerged by flooding. The government said the number of communities affected by the flood had been increasing on a daily basis, insisting that the state was in dire need of support from the Federal Government….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian plastic-recycling company has won the maiden Shell Outstanding Achievement Prize in the 2018 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards. Bayelsa State-based De-Rabacon Plastics came tops in a competition that also saw another Nigerian firm, Alternate Energy Limited, emerge as the second runner-up in the Energy Solutions category to win a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Chief Tiwei Orunimiye, on Saturday led over 98 leaders and 5000 members of the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party in the State. Those who defected to the APC included a serving lawmaker representing Brass 2 Constituency in the House…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights organization, Network for Peace and Development (NPD) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the lawmaker representing Brass constituency 1 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Israel Sunny-Goli for the recent killings and violent attacks in Twon-brass. The NPD said if Sunny-Goli is not arrested…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Style Benjamin, National Chairman of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM) on Sunday dissociated the group from ongoing fraudulent jobs and contract scams in Bayelsa. Benjamin said in Yenagoa that fraudulent people were using the name HOSTCOM to defraud unsuspecting people in Bayelsa and across…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Saturday commiserated with the family of Kofi Annan, the United Nations, the government and people of Ghana on the demise of former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan at the age of 80. Annan was the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work winner….