{"id":43536,"date":"2020-10-01T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=43536"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:44:34","slug":"bayelsa-nlc-chairman-lauds-govt-strides-says-bayelsa-24th-anniversary-worth-commemorating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/bayelsa-nlc-chairman-lauds-govt-strides-says-bayelsa-24th-anniversary-worth-commemorating\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa: NLC Chairman Lauds Govt Strides, Says Bayelsa 24th Anniversary Worth Commemorating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">By Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Chairman,Bayelsa state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress,NLC,Comrade John Ndiomu says the 24th anniversary of the creation of the Bayelsa state and Nigeria&#8217;s 60th Independence are worthy of celebrating.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This Ndiomu stated,stems from the fact that but for the independence of the country in 1960 the people who today make Nigeria would have\u00a0been under colonisation beyond the 60s.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He noted that it was as a result of the independence of the country that additional region was created,saying this later dawned on the government to created states for rapid socio-economic transformation where the old Rivers state was amongst states created.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ndiomu mentioned that with the need to attract faster development, the present Bayelsa was carved out of the old Rivers state, bringing the level of development presently seen in the state to being.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Labour leader hinted that through concerted efforts by successive administrations in the state,Yenagoa which hitherto was one of the remotes areas of the country now has most of the trappings of an urban centre,noting that with the needed infrastructure put in place, the state would be competing favourably with its peers in the nation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He commended Governor Douye Diri for his labour friendly policies,harping that arrears owed workers by successive administrations in the state civil service are gradually being cleared by the current government.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He enjoined workers to continue having faith in the leadership of the NLC in the state,just as he said though not yet uhuru, the Labour under his stewardship has recorded its share of achievements within his first and second tenures.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The two term labour leader urged Nigerians and Bayelsans to celebrate the 60th and 24th anniversaries peacefully, maintaining that it is a time for sober reflection on the past,present and future of the nation and state respectively.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman,Bayelsa state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress,NLC,Comrade John Ndiomu says the 24th anniversary of the creation of the Bayelsa state and Nigeria&#8217;s 60th Independence are worthy of celebrating.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7460],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-43536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-comrade-john-ndiomu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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