{"id":164739,"date":"2025-05-29T09:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee"},"modified":"2025-05-29T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:23:00","slug":"akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio names Bayelsa senator, Konbowei SSDC committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has named the Senator representing Bayelsa Central, Dr Benson Friday Konbowei, as Chairman of the Standing Committee on South-South Development Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Asuquo Ekpeyong was named vice chairman of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the Standing Committee on South-South Development Commission are senators Onowakpo Thomas Joel, Benson Friday Agadaga, Neda Bernards Imasuen, Allwell Heacho Onyesoh, Samson Ekong, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila, Mustapha Musa, Patrick Ndubueze, Idiat Oluranti Adebule and Mustapha Saliu.<\/p>\n<p>Konbowei is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He started his political journey as a councillor in 1992 and has been elected into several positions since then.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Council, Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly and later Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government.<\/p>\n<p>Konbowei was elected to the Senate in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Senate President Godswill Akpabio has named the Senator representing Bayelsa Central, Dr Benson Friday Konbowei, as Chairman of the Standing Committee on South-South Development Commission. Senator Asuquo Ekpeyong was named vice chairman of the committee. Other members of the Standing Committee on South-South Development Commission are senators Onowakpo Thomas Joel, Benson Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[621,773,12716,254],"class_list":["post-164739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akpabio","tag-bayelsa","tag-konbowei","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akpabio names Bayelsa senator, Konbowei SSDC committee - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senate President Godswill Akpabio has named the Senator representing Bayelsa Central, Dr Benson Friday Konbowei, as Chai ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Akpabio names Bayelsa senator, Konbowei SSDC committee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate President Godswill Akpabio has named the Senator representing Bayelsa Central, Dr Benson Friday Konbowei, as Chai ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T08:59:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T10:23:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748501624.401042.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Akpabio names Bayelsa senator, Konbowei SSDC committee\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-29T08:59:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-29T10:23:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee\"},\"wordCount\":154,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748501624.401042.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akpabio\",\"Bayelsa\",\"Konbowei\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/akpabio-names-bayelsa-senator-konbowei-ssdc-committee\",\"name\":\"Akpabio names Bayelsa senator, Konbowei SSDC committee - 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