RURAL PEOPLES ASSEMBLY

The Chairman, National Consultative Front (NCFRONT), Bayelsa State Chapter expresses great concern and empathy for victims of the 2022 flood ravaging a large portion of Bayelsa State and neighbouring states which has left thousands of people stranded and homeless. This challenge has become gruesome on the livelihood of friends, families and loved ones across the affected areas, as prices of essential commodities have been impacted due inability of trucks and other vehicles to convey food and fuel to most flood affected areas, with attendant hoarding of these commodities by marketers to cause artificial scarcity, causing prices of goods and other services to a record breaking 500% hike. This calls for urgent attention by government and other critical stakeholders to avoid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the affected communities, even as huge losses of human and property worth millions have been recorded already. We therefore call on residents to stand shoulder to sho...

Reports reaching the news desk of Rural Peoples' Assembly has it that one Mr. Kemecy Harry Yeri, a former councillorship aspirant under the defunct Liberation Movement (LM) in Bayelsa State has alleged that an attempt was made on his life when sometime in April, 2022 a mob of youths believed to be hired by the PDP and led by the community youth president Ms Oyinbunua Rose Ekumoh attacked him bearing dangerous weapons such as cutlasses, Daggers, Rods/Pipes and Planks and injured him severely as he sustained a machete cut to the knee and neck, and several bruises all over his body. According to Mr. Kemecy Harry Yeri who is also currently standing trial for threatening and injuring on Nathaniel Gideon sometime in February, 2022 at the magistrate court siting in Sagbama, while giving his statement to the police at Sagbama division of the Nigeria Police Force stated that he did not know the reason behind the unprovoked attack by the youth president who presided over his atta...

*BIRTHDAY FELICITATIONS FROM COMMUNITY CENTER INTERNATIONAL (C.C.I.) TO HRM. KING BUBARAYE DAKOLO, CHAIRMAN BAYELSA STATE COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL RULERS* Bayelsa State Chairman of Community Centre International (CCI) Apostle Timiebi Kiyaramo, on behalf of the state and local government executive has felicitated with the Chairman of Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers, HRM King Bubaraye Dakolo on his birthday, describing the revered monarch as a strategic and critical thinker. In a statement issued in Yenagoa, signed by the state chairman and secretary, Apostle Kiyaramo noted that King Dakolo within his short period in office as Chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of Traditional Rulers has demonstrated the fact that true and effective leadership comes from the accumulation of skills most of which developed through experience and training uniquely influenced by his personality and background as soldier, environmental activist and scholar.  Apostle Kiyaramo wished HRM King Bubaraye Dako...

PRESS RELEASE The State Executive and Local Government Chairmen of Community Centre International (CCI), paid a courtesy Call on the Chairman, Bayelsa State Council of Traditional Rulers, HRM. King Bubaraye Dakolo, at his office, today 13th of July, 2022 to congratulate him on his emergence as the Chairman of the Council and to crave his indulgence to support their Aims and Objectives as an organisation. In a brief presentation by the Bayelsa State Chairman of CCI, Apostle Kiyaramo Timiebi, he said the organisation has two main objectives, which is;  1. To promote Human Capacity building and Empowerment 2. To promote Good Governance and Community Development. He added that Traditional Rulers are the fathers of the community and no well meaning organisation can thrive without identifying with the host community leaders. That is why he has led the delegation to visit the number traditional ruler of the Bayelsa State domains. Also commenting on the ocassion, Prof. Prosper ...

NGOs BERATES NYSC, NIGERIA POLICE FOR HIDING AWAY CORPS MEMBER WHO DEFILE PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPIL AT HIS PLACE OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT INA ASAMABIRI COMMUNITY IN SAGBAMA LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF BAYELSA STATE - CALLS FOR SACK OF STATE COORDINATOR MRS OJUGO ELIZABETH IYOWUNA  A group of organisations including the Niger Delta Congress - Bayelsa State chapter, Rural Peoples' Assembly (RPA), IzonFest Development Foundation (IDF) and Tuebi Sapere-Obi Foundation (TSF) have called for justice for 12 years old Miss Esther a victim of defilement, and condemned the attitude of the Nigeria Police Force and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) over the lackadaisical attitude in handling such sensitive criminal cases such as defilement, and for attempting to sweep such a case involving a corps member Mr. Ogbe Jonathan serving at the Primary School in Asamabiri community and 12 years old Esther, a pupil of the primary school, under the rug. The incident which was reported to the Nigeria Police...

The Niger Delta Congress has sponsored the filing of a suit at the Fed. High Court vacation court sitting in Port Harcourt against SPDC, Standard Chartered Bank and AGF, on behalf of pollution impacted communities of the Niger Delta region, to call for a blueprint on the proposed clean-up, remediation and rehabilitation of the communities affected by the impacts of negative oil exploration and exploitation practices by the multinational oil major over the years, with respect to the perceived intention by the company to sell-off its interests in its onshore and shallow water assets in these communities in the planned divestment announced few months ago. The socio-political organisation which champions the course of a virile autonomous Niger Delta with economic and political autonomy speaks on behalf of the Niger Delta people and communities to demand that SPDC should take steps to assure the communities and its people about what template and timeline it has come up with in ensuring that...

The Bayelsa State Ministry of Culture and Tourism through the office of the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism is set to partner with the Izon Peace Festival project to deliver a remarkable celebration of World Tourism Day 2021 via a collaboration that would see both organizations holding a common brief of festivities to mark the global tourism event.  The organization during a courtesy call to the Ministry saw the secretary of the planning committee, Barr. Aniso, O. Abraham and his counter parts appraise the Commissioner, Permanent Secretary and DG tourism on their plans for the Ijaw Nation through the peace festival and what the future it holds in the attaining of global recognition as an autonomous nation with its own unique civilization of arts, sports and creativity.  Responding to the proposal, the Honourable Commissioner, Hon. Iti Orugbani lauded the Organizations Novel presentation and promised to create the necessary enabling environment for the event to...