Tag Archives: Bayelsa

Former Governor of Anambra,Peter Obi, on Friday listed two conditions that must be met for Nigeria to overcome its economic difficulties and for Africa to develop. He said that governments in the country needed to invest massively in education and skills training as well as meaningful support for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to overcome economic challenges. Obi made this ...

The Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue (BIR),on Wednesday, decried the poor tax-paying culture amongst corporate organisations operating in the oil-rich state. The Executive Chairman of BIR, Nimibofa Ayawei, said, in Yenagoa, that such attitude had been an obstacle to boosting the internally generated revenue profile of the state. Ayawei said that the exponential growth of the internal revenue of the ...

The Bayelsa State Government has been urged to seek alternative funding to pay the November salaries pending reconciliation of figures by Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for the month in question. The advise was given by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Bayelsa, on Wednesday. Bayelsa chapter Chairman of TUC, Tari Dounana, made the suggestion against the backdrop of a ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has presented a business support grant of N12 million to 30 participants of its youth entrepreneurship scheme. Speaking at the graduation ceremony in Yenagoa on Thursday, Igo Weli, General Manager, SPDC, said that the company had so far empowered 6, 580 youths from the Niger Delta under the ‘LIVEWIRE’ entrepreneurship programme for youths between age ...

Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson has assured prospective investors that commercial port activities would commence at the Agge Deep Seaport in Ekeremor Local Government Area before the end of his administration. Dickson gave the assurance while inaugurating a 14-member Project Implementation Committee for the Development of the Agge Deep Seaport at Government House in Yenagoa. He said that the government had ...