The death of the former Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in a Port Harcourt hospital on 10 October prompted an upsurge of nationalist sentiment among his Ijaw people the Delta's dominant ethnic group...
Former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha who jumped bail in Britain where he had been charged with money laundering has warned that local communities threaten to shut down production if they don't get a bigger share of the state revenue which comes mostly from oil exports (AC Vol 46 No 24 Tummy tuck bellyache)...
Gates had been scheduled to meet President Goodluck Jonathan but in one of the most maladroit moves of his presidency Jonathan had just pardoned his friend and predecessor as Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...
Few believe the stars will align as propitiously for the prosecution of any other corrupt Nigerian politicians even though Britain has outstanding extradition warrants for Joshua Dariye and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha respectively ex-governors of Plateau and Bayelsa states (AC Vol 51 No 12 Welcome to London)...
In 2007 the disgraced former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was convicted of corruption after being pursued by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to London where he skipped bail...
Similar problems surround Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha former Governor of Bayelsa State next door to Ibori’s Delta...
Asiawaju Bola Tinubu James Ibori and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha stand at extremes on the spectrum of life after Government House (see Feature Governors on top and on trial)...
One of the architects of the violence was Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha Jonathan’s predecessor as Bayelsa Governor and a convicted fraudster...
A menacing force is the Bayelsa Volunteers formed under Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha...
As Baylesa Governor he inherited a relationship with Ijaw nationalists and armed youth groups originally deployed by his predecessor Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha to fight the neighbouring Itsekiri community...
