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Nigeria

Timipre Marlin Sylva

Date of Birth: 7 July 1964
Place of Birth: Rivers State


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Oil cuts as Delta erupts

His schemes failed to keep him in office and ex-Governor Timipre Sylva may be pressing the President for a similar comfortable exit strategy...


A year of living dangerously

Few are convinced by the President’s attempts to remain aloof; he is known to oppose the return of Timipre Sylva to the governorship and to want his own person in Bayelsa’s Government House...


A trap for the juggernaut

He joined the LP less than seven months ago when the PDP found it awkward to dump Governor Timipre Sylva...


A fight for the President’s base

Alamieyeseigha perfected many of the methods of intimidation of opponents and recruitment of police and youth organisations to act as foot soldiers at election time techniques perpetuated by his successor Chief Timipre Sylva (AC Vol 51 No 24)...


Bayelsa's fighting chance

Alaibe was heir-apparent to Jonathan's governorship in Bayelsa but the present Governor Chief Timipre Sylva pipped him for the PDP candidacy in 2007...


Jonathan’s primary colours

Bayelsa and Delta State Governors Timipre Sylva and Emmanuel Uduaghan are at best semi-detached from the Jonathan cause...


All the President's militias

The contest is hottest in the following Delta states: Bayelsa State A struggle within the PDP between the Governor who took over from Jonathan Chief Timipre Sylva and an Abuja group led by Chief Fred Agbedi was resolved in September...


The gangs of Port Harcourt

Bayelsa is beset by criminal gangs linked to the main camp near Yenagoa with Governor Timipre Sylva using them as his shock troops...


Ready for change in the Niger Delta

Africanus Ukparasia Tuwonwei (General Africa): MEND commander Africa has kept his head down during the amnesty while acting as muscle for Governor Timipre Sylva and aiding the flight of ex-Governor James Ibori...


Political spills

Scores are being settled ahead of the elections and some political thugs launched a river-borne attack on the house of impeached Bayelsa State deputy governor Peremobowei Ebebi on the country home of Bayelsa governor Timipre Sylva and other senior figures in the state government...


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