WHEN EVANS IYOYO LEFT THE STAGE

1978 is a memorable month for the children of Elder Evans Iyoyo who left all that was dear to him and joined his ancestors in the great beyond.

It was like a joke during that historic period of the Nigerian civil war, when every family  was praying for the survival of beloved ones, fathers mothers children, relations and friends because of the fractricidal war, nobody reasoned that a healthy businessman, a trader could just fall sick within three weeks and die.

Elder Evans Laddar Iyoyo a father of eight children namely:

*Mr. Israel Evans Iyoyo

*Mrs Esther Okaghoemi Alagoa nee Evans

*Mr Jephthah Evans Iyoyo

*Pastor Rowland Evans Iyoyo

*Chief Otonye Evans Tubonah

*Mark Evans Iyoyo

*Pastor Doibo Evans

* Mrs Ayebadieye Yekorogha nee Evans.

Elder Evans Iyoyo left the world unceremoniously took nothing along with him, and out of all that he left was the way he lived with his people friends and well wishes, a grat legacy, that made his friends and business associates to deal kindly with us, his children.

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.

BAYELSA GOVT. SELLS OUT PUBLIC PROPERTIES IN SECRET

News at Golden Pen News desk has it that the Bayelsa State Government had started selling off some properties owned by government.
Golden Pen authoritatively gathered that the first batch of sales took place at the Government owned Newspaper Corporation, Publishers of the New Waves, where printing machines valued at hundreds of millions of naira were dismantled and loaded into waiting lorries and taken away to unknown destinations
Golden Pen correspondent reported that when he went to the news stand by the Corporation's office he saw the lorries and a strange movement in and out of the Waves  Printing Hall, and when he moved closer saw a truck inside dismantling the machines, and the loaded lorries ready to move. Our correspondent said after noticing that all the vehicles involved in the deal had their number plates removed.
Asking who gave them the authority to dismantle the said printing machines, Golden Pen was told that the Head of Service of Bayelsa State, Dr. Singabele was at Corporation when the dismantling process was on and should be in better position to explain.
When contacted in his office after some hours of waiting , Dr. Singabele who said he was returning from government house to work on some files, and does not have time to talk with the Press has this to say;
"Sorry, I am just from government house and have no time to discuss with you on this matter, is it because I went and stopped them? Is it because I went and stopped? Let them say whatever they like to say, but if you want to know you may go and ask the police what happened." Singabele said.
all efforts to contact the police has not been successful as at press time.

THE ERRORS OF PROF. UTOMI

Professor Pat Utomi

It baffled many Nigerians to read a publication by Professor Pat Utomi in the New media, telling the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to 'shut up'.
Professor Utomi was quoted to have said, the President should 'Shut Up' because he knew nothing about the economics of Nigeria. This unfortunate and ridiculous statement, by Mr. Utomi  had telegraphically portrayed him as a Professor who don't know how to talk to elders. Carefully evaluating the arrogance and impunity, the Professor had advertised himself as the 'only best economist' or 'the only best brain' that could speak on economic matters in the African largest nation, Nigeria.
To correct the wrong impression created by his ill-fated publication, it has become  necessary and important to call this disappointingly erroneous Professor Utomi to order, so that he will come to the reality that there are equally other better brains that have a say in the economy of the nation and every other matter.
There are many reasons to fault the arrogant assertions of Prof. Utomi whose claims of being a better brain on economic matters in Nigeria above the President of the country is most unreasonable and a clear display of professorial ignorance or foolhardiness . It is pertinent to point out to Professor Utomi some truth he needs to know:
1. Professor Pat Utomi cannot tell Nigerians or the world that he was the only brilliant
child in  school from class to class.
2. He cannot claim that their were no other brilliant students that competed with him regarding positions at examinations. If he came out best in any class or throughout his academic life, he could not claim that he was the only Nigerian that came out best in every subject
3. There are different careers in life and Professor Utomi cannot claim to be master of all. If he is an economist, he should not forget that there are other economists like him and he cannot beat his chest to say that he is the number one economist in Africa or in the world.
4. Beside being an economist, Professor Utomi  cannot call himself a medical Doctor, a Lawyer, a manufacturer, an Engineer etc, or if he does , he cannot still claim to be the best in all.
5. This is the error of Professor Pat Utomi, that he is not the only economist in Nigeria and does not know half of what President Buhari knows of the economy of Nigeria, because of the caliber of the technocrats that are his ministers and advisers.
Professor Utomi ended up proffering no solution to the economic challenges of the nation than raising unnecessary alarm of the failure of past administration to save money when things were better.
 SUGGESTION
In view of the fact that Utomi had failed to proffer solution on how to stabilize the economy, I like to suggest that Nigeria should go for a NATIONAL ECONOMIC STABILIZATION FUNDS RAISING PROGRAMME, and for sure, Nigeria as the President said could go on without necessarily devaluing the naira.
By Chief Evans Tubonah
Publisher/Editor-In-Chief
Golden Pen Newspapers
Yenagoa
Bayelsa State

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GOV. DICKSON, PDP, JOIN ELECTION CASE IN ABUJA

Hon. Seriake Dickson
 

The governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, have according to media  reports  joined a case filed in an Abuja High Court, by one of the Political parties,  Hope Democratic Party [HDP] that participated in the December 5th 2015 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State.
The HDP which dragged the electoral umpire INEC to the Court, calling for the nullification of the said election on the grounds that the party's candidate Bulus Wombu and the running mate King George were deliberately and unlawfully excluded.
The suit was filed by Albert Ambrose Owuru, seeking nullification of the said election, stated further that even the logo of their party, the HDP was not printed on the ballot paper used for the governorship election of December 5th 2015.
Sensing danger in the move by the HDP, the Bayelsa State governor and declared winner of the said election, Henry Seriake Dickson was said to have made a swift move with his party, the PDP and joined in the suit.
From all indications, the political terrain in the all Ijaw state is not yet certain as to what direction the political pendulum is swinging towards. If the Federal High Court heed the prayers raised by the petitioners then Bayelsa may be subjected to yet another round of governorship election in the state to elect their leader.

BAYELSA ABANDONED SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS IN UK BEG FOR SURVIVAL

What happened in the UK yesterday may be interpreted as a drama, but it was not, when the Scholarship student of Bayelsa state stormed the streets of the United Kingdom to raise an alarm of their abandonment by the Bayelsa State government that sponsored them to the UK.
It was a national embarrassment that Nigeria's students were so neglected by a state government to such an extent that the matter has come to the attention of the whole world, what a shame to an oil producing state like Bayelsa, with tall the derivation amounting billions.
It was so disturbing to especially parents whose sons and daughters were given scholarship by the Bayelsa State RESTORATION administration led by Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson as Governor of the state to study in the UK.  that their children were now begging for their survival because of their abandonment by the Bayelsa  state government.
A report filed in and telecast by the Correspondent of Channels Television in the UK, Caren Chambers had it that, Bayelsa Scholarship Students in the UK were abandoned by their sponsor in that foreign land. Evaluated the problem the students were facing the correspondent said;-
'thea the plight of the students appeared compounded as their visas were due to expire in a few days and weeks.
In a swift reaction, the Chairperson to the Scholarship Board in the State, Bebecca Suoari regretted the development but explained that State government will soon do something and urged both parents and students to bear with the state government, which according to her is working assiduously to to pay all the bills.

SYLVA THREATENS TO DRAG INEC TO COURT OVER ELCTORAL FRAUD

Chief Timipre Sylva

The former governor of Bayelsa State and APC candidate for the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva has declared that he will drag the electoral body, INEC to court for what he described as the unlawful manner the election was conducted and for declaring a candidate as winner.
Chief Sylva who described the development as flagrant disobedience to the electoral laws, which provides that, where  outstanding votes were higher or above the votes of a leading candidate, such an election becomes inconclusive by law because of the outstanding higher votes, contented that the declaration Dickson or the PDP was an act of impunity and lawlessness.
Chief Sylva had said that when he saw the Resident Electoral Commissioner [REC] and the State Administrative Officer of INEC of Bayelsa, he identified them as the very ones posted or deployed by the President Jonathan led PDP government to rig the 2015 presidential election to favour Goodluck Jonathan, and who gave him near 100 percent of the presidential votes cast.
According to him, when he noticed that, they were the same persons going to conduct the governorship election in Bayelsa, he raised an alarm that they should redeployed and neutral persons that had no partisan interest be brought to replace them to conduct the election, but INEC refused to act on the alarm he raised.  He went further and committed his protest to writing; and the petition too was ignored, Chief Sylva explained.
The APC governorship candidate said he had no other alternative than to continue in the race since he could not pull out of it, because of their conspiracy with the PDP.
He described the REC and the Admin. Secretary of the INEC in Bayelsa State as "rigging machine for the PDP", and that rigging started from the distribution of materials, where electoral materials were diverted  to unknown destinations instead of to the polling centers or units.
Addressing Journalists in Yenagoa, Chief Sylva said the declaration of a winner in an inconclusive election was unconstitutional. and therefore unacceptable to him and his Party, the APC.
He called on all members of the APC and his supporters in the state to remain calm while assuring them that INEC will be dragged to court to restore the wrongly cancelled votes that gave a clear victory to the APC against the PDP
Meanwhile the governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson has commended INEC for doing a good job and the people of the state for giving him the support, while assuring that those who perpetrated violence at the election shall be brought to justice..