Diri in a statement on Monday signed by his Acting Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, said he had instructed his lawyers to file the necessary papers.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the cabinet list is coming six months after Diri was sworn in as governor, following the Supreme Court verdict, which disqualified the governor-elect, David Lyon.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Diri assumed office on February 14 following a Supreme Court verdict on the Bayelsa State governorship poll.
Governor Douye Diri gave the assurance during a solidarity visit by the state athletes and top officials of the Sports Council to the Government House in Yenagoa to celebrate his victory at the Supreme Court.
The state Governor, Senator Douye Diri, received the medical items from the NLNG delegation on behalf of the state government on Wednesday in Yenagoa.
Diri spoke at the King of Glory Chapel, Government House, Yenagoa at a brief thanksgiving service to celebrate the dismissal of the case filed by Chief Timi Alaibe challenging his emergence as governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last September 2019 gubernatorial primaries.
Alaibe claimed he was the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The governor gave the directive in Yenagoa on Thursday during a meeting with religious leaders in the state.
Diri made the call on Friday during an online global conference to mark the 2020 World Environment Day, with the theme: “The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Flora and Fauna of the Niger Delta.”
No doubt, he had high hopes growing up; dreams to be great and make his parents very proud. That today, he would be sitting at the helms of affairs as Governor of Bayelsa State was not by accident but divine arrangement. He was named Douye in the Izon language, which means: “Desire.”
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the figure is the highest by the state in the last one year.
It would be recalled that the Bayelsa State COVID-19 Task Force, chaired by Governor Douye Diri, had in the past weeks demolished illegal structures at Swali and Etegwe areas of Yenagoa, the State capital.
The Leader of the forum, which is based in Bayelsa State, Chef T. K. Ogoriba, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Yenagoa.
A medical doctor has tested positive for COVID-19 in Bayelsa State, bringing the number of active cases in the state to two, Governor Douye Diri has announced.
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has appointed Kola Oredipe, Manager, News and Current Affairs, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, as his Coordinator, Social Media.
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has tested negative for the Coronavirus Disease amid speculations and anxiety over his health status.
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State on Saturday directed the closure of all public and private schools in the state from March 26 as part of the measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Ndutimi Alaibe, a governorship aspirant in Bayelsa State on the platform of the PDP, had dragged the party, Diri and the Independent National Electoral Commission to court over what he described as a flawed primaries
The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Bayelsa, Doifie Buokoribo, expressed the party’s position while reacting to the approval in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa on Thursday
The Peoples Democratic Party has hailed Wednesday’s verdict of the Supreme Court on the Bayelsa State governorship election.