The ambitious New Yenagoa City Project, a multi-billion-naira plan pitched as Bayelsa’s ticket to a modern, planned capital, is in between a mix of optimism of officials and the skepticism of political foes, with ordinary Bayelsa residents caught in the middle, writes SAMUEL ESE
Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has long been regarded as the capital of the Ijaw nation. That identity began to crystallise in 1999 when the late Governor…
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