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  • The return of Timi Alaibe

    The return of Timi Alaibe

    Few people understand the constant nature of change better than the former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe. In the days he held sway as the MD of NDDC, his presence commanded respect and his words were virtually law.

    The Rivers State University of Science and Technology-trained accountan aspired to become the governor of Bayelsa State on two occasions but failed to pick the party’s ticket.

    After he was relieved of his position as Special Adviser on Niger Delta to President Goodluck Jonathan, he took a ‘sabbatical’ from the social and political scenes. Even his rumoured engagement to former Miss World, Agbani Derego, would not draw him out of his cocoon.

    According to those in the know, his duplex at old G.R.A, Port Harcourt has been deserted, leaving a handful of armed soldiers and aides lurking around. Although his last failed attempt to secure the governorship ticket of the PDP primaries was  said to have cost him a fortune, Alaibe is back in the race to become the governor of Bayelsa State.

    After an intense six-hour meeting in Yenagoa more than a week ago, some elders and political leaders in Bayelsa have agreed to allow Alaibe vie for the governorship position in the upcoming election in November. Although it has not been decided which party platform Timi would vie on, the political leaders have indicated their intention to unveil Alaibe as their choice in June, after General Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

  • Late Alaere Alaibe’s Pretty Woman closes shop

    Late Alaere Alaibe’s Pretty Woman closes shop

    PRETTY Woman, the business concern of the late Mrs. Alaere Augustina Alaibe, wife of Mr. Timi Alaibe, former managing director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which used to be a Mecca of sort for fashion lovers has closed down five years after the demise of the owner.

    Pretty Woman which used to occupy a gigantic edifice on the popular Toyin street,Ikeja has been taken over by a hospitality business, Lagos Travel Inn Limited,although renovations are still being done on the 10 storey building by the new owners.

    Pretty Woman opened for business in 2006. After the demise of the owner,it was gathered that the business was mismanaged and the family decided to wind up the business.

    Alaere Alaibe died in a London hospital in 2009, after a prolong battle with cancer related ailment. Despite Pretty Woman closure,the late Alaere will be remember for her philanthropy.

  • Timi Alaibe shuts down late wife’s business

    Timi Alaibe shuts down late wife’s business

    Former boss of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, has shut down the business of his late wife, Alaiere Alaibe, bringing the era of the once a flourishing business to an end. Until her death, the late Alaiere ran a multi-million naira beauty shop called Pretty Woman on Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos.

    Many people had expected the business to wind up as soon as Alaiere died in 2009, but her husband reasoned that closing down the business would amount to erasing the legacy of enterprise for which Alaiere was known. He left the business to run and appointed someone to manage it.

    According to an inside source, the business started experiencing financial troubles just a year after the transfer of its management. Timi was said to have come up with the idea of selling the business at the time because he was too busy to oversee it, but the late wife’s family and friends appealed to him to keep it open. They told him that the financial troubles experienced by the business would abate in a few months when the new handler would have got used to it.

    But year after year, Pretty Woman became an ugly shadow of its old self. The place became deserted and the equipment began to rot. Timi could not take it anymore and decided to close down the business once and for all. The building now houses a branch of Enterprise Bank.

  • Alaibe heads Bayelsa tourism board

    Alaibe heads Bayelsa tourism board

    The former managing director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Timi Alaibe, has been appointed the Chairman of the Bayelsa State Tourism Development Board.

    Alaibe was appointed by the state Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, shortly after the governor constituted the board on Wednesday.

    A statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, also named other members of the eight-man board.

    They are – Mr. Ephraim Fallogi, Fred Nyananyo, Air Vice Marshall Atti Samuel (rtd), Mr. Fyneman Wilson, Mr. Claudius Enegesi, Mr. Solomon Apreala and Miss Bini Ayafa.

    Dickson said the board would be inaugurated at a later date.

    Among other things, he said the board should realise the proposed Tourism Island.

    He said: “The Tourism Island, expected to form an integral part of the new Yenagoa City, spanning over 15,000 hectres lying between the Epie Creek and River Nun stretching from Igbogene to Tombia in the North down to Yenaka will be more of a private sector driven project.

    “The Tourism Island, which is already in the early stages of what is expected to be a robust project, will have facilities such as a six-star hotel, an 18 hole- Professional Golf Association (PGA) Golf Course and world class Polo field among other facilities.

    “It is hoped that, the new Tourism Development Board, made up of persons of proven integrity and disposition, will use their wealth of experience in the times past to attract the much needed private sector participation as well as translate government’s dream of developing a flourishing world class tourism facility to reality.”

    Dickson said his administration had identified tourism as having the potential to stabilise the post oil and gas economy.

    He said the government would not joke with the sector, adding that “Bayelsa will within the foreseeable future become an international tourism hub and destination.”