Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa, on Tuesday, justified the relatively high cost of executing infrastructural projects in Bayelsa. Diri stated this at the official inauguration and hand-over of the Federal Secretariat, named after former President Goodluck Jonathan, in Yenagoa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the construction of the federal secretariat started in 2011
Major oil firms operating oilfields in Bayelsa have faulted claims by the Bayelsa Oil and Environmental Commission (BSOEC) in its final report presented to Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa at House of Lords on Tuesday in London. Reacting to the alleged complicity and responsibility for the widespread pollution, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC)