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As part of the ongoing efforts by the PMB administration to bring development to the Niger Delta Region, the government has concluded plans to establish an oil and gas institute in Bayelsa State

This is part of the palliatives and infrastructural packages to develop human capacity and quell agitation in the region that the government has been rolling out to give the area a sense of belonging.


The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, made the disclosure, yesterday, when he visited Yenagoa, the state capital .

According to the minister said the institute would be sited in Odi, a community in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, that suffered military invasion under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.