LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension is brewing in Bayelsa State as the State House of Assembly is at loggerheads with a security company, Darlon Security, and Guards, over allegations of extra-judicial killings in the state, particularly in the creeks. Already, a group of agitators, the Order of Egbesu Brotherhood, has warned of an imminent resumption of…
By Amos Okioma An Ijaw leadership group on Wednesday called for a review of the leadership process to ensure that those who occupy public offices are answerable and accountable to the people. The group, G24 Embasara Foundation unveiled its plan at a one day summit on Visionary Leadership, Good Governance and Sustainable Development in Bayelsa…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bayelsa State chapter, Chief Lionel Jonathan-Omo, is dead. Jonathan-Omo, the Deputy Campaign Director General of Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation during the 2016 governorship election in the state reportedly had a fatal fall from the balcony of his two-storey building in his country home in Beleu-Pogo in…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In its bid for a better society, a non – governmental and non – Partisan Organization , under the aegis of the United Elites for grassroot Development Foundation ( UNEGRODEF ) said it is piqued with the myriads of factors that militate against societal development and therefore poised to…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has reiterated its position that pipeline vandalism, illegal oil refinery and oil theft and other related crimes still remained an act of economic sabotage against the growth and development of the country as such the organization is fully prepared and strategized to…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has taken the crusade for the restructuring of Nigeria to the academic community. The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said in a statement on Sunday that Dickson would deliver a major lecture on the raging issue of the restructuring of the country…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sharp criticism on Sunday continued to trail what the Bayelsa Progress Front (BPF) criticised what it described “an absurd display of wealth” by a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, during a birthday party organised by him and his friends. According to the BPF, it was regrettable that Sylva who…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NESRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has said Nigeria needs quintessential and selfless leaders like Mallam Adamu Ciroma to rescue the country from the shackles of injustice, misrule and underdevelopment. A statement signed by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo, quoted Dickson as speaking on Sunday in Abuja during a…