During the Senate plenary on Thursday, March 20, 2025, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi moved a motion to reorder the Order Paper to allow the Senate to handle the debate on the state of emergency in Rivers before other motions itemized for legislative action.
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The allegation is contained in a press release titled: “Ongoing attempt to destabilize the minority parties in the Senate would be resisted” and signed by eight Senators.
Dickson is a serving lawmaker, Agadaga is a former Chief of Staff to Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri, while Kombowei is a former Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government.
The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Ayibaina Duba, stated this in a statement.
Pere, who dusted the pack from his field of Mathematics and Computer Science, was one of the thousands of beneficiaries of the aggressive scholarship programme of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson’s Restoration Government in Bayelsa State.
The couple was arraigned on Friday in Yenagoa by the EFCC for money laundering allegedly carried out in 2015.
But Dickson said the affected assets were acquired before he became Governor.
According to a source, Dickson presented himself to the EFCC following an invitation by the agency.
Diri stated this on Wednesday when he made an unscheduled visit to the facility ahead of a final certification visitation by the country’s aviation regulatory authorities on March 30, 2021.
Dickson said his noticeable absence from government functions was deliberate and in consonance with his values and principles of non interference.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the new senators included Seriake Dickson (PDP-Bayelsa), Cleopas Moses (PDP-Bayelsa), Tokunbo Abiru (APC-Lagos) and Nora Daduut (APC-Plateau).
Diri spoke after his predecessor, Chief Seriake Dickson. and immediate past Chairman of the party, Moses Cleopas, emerged as candidates for Bayelsa West and Bayelsa Central Senatorial Districts by-elections respectively.
Dickson emerged victorious at the primaries held on Saturday.
It is the new economic destination and the world of opportunities in the state would be measured by “Agrodollars” and that is the new reality in Bayelsa State. Truly, the farmers would be kings again
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 Management of Radio Bayelsa has suspended nine workers over an attack on the station by hoodlums in protest against the Supreme Court’s judgment that sacked erstwhile Governor-elect, David Lyon.
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has called on all political parties to be calm and embrace peace over the ruling of the Supreme Court on the Bayelsa State governorship poll.
The Governor is due to leave office on February 14
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has urged the Federal Government to issue operational licence to the Airport inaugurated in the state on Monday.
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has said his administration will complete all projects close to 90 per cent completion and inaugurate them for the benefits of Bayelsa people before February 14, 2020.