Tag: Bayelsa State
Mass burial for 11 Bayelsa PDP women
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The 11 female Bayelsa politicians who died in an auto crash on Saturday near the Old Ahoada…
Patience Jonathan in Bayelsa to mourn PDP women leaders
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The wife of the president, Patience Jonathan arrived Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital on Monday and paid a…
Bayelsa Mourns Death Of Top Women Politicians
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Bayelsa state has been thrown into deep mourning following the death of prominent Bayelsa women politicians. The…
Wike, Rivers PDP console Bayelsa on loss of SSG’s wife, others
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers state PDP Campaign Organisation has condoled the government and people of Bayelsa state on the…
Patience Jonathan mourns wife of Bayelsa SSG, others
The wife of the president, Patience Jonathan, on Sunday commiserated with the Bayelsa Government over the death of some prominent…
Wife of Bayelsa SSG, 11 others die in multiple crash
*Accident victims returning to Yenagoa after visiting Mrs Patience Jonathan *Governor Dickson suspends state functions for 3 days Okafor Ofiebor/Port…
Gunmen kidnap four oil workers in Bayelsa
Gunmen riding in a speedboat kidnapped four Nigerian oil workers in the crude-producing Niger Delta, the military said Wednesday, as…
Bayelsa raises alarm over INEC’s refusal to release 147,802 PVCs
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Bayelsa State Government has raised an alarm that, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is on…
Cholera Outbreak: Need For Urgent Intervention
A few days ago, Nigerians woke up to hear that over 20 people had lost their lives as a result…
2015 Election: Governor Dickson bans TAN activities in Bayelsa
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Pressured by various group who are jostling to promote the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan the Bayelsa…
You can’t divide Bayelsa, like you did Rivers, youths warn Patience Jonathan
A group of concerned youths in Bayelsa State under the auspices of Bayelsa Youth Vanguard has threatened to disrupt the…
I’ll perform so well, Nigerians will ask for another Bayelsan, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has told leaders from his home state, Bayelsa that he will perform creditably well as president of…
Bayelsa Senatorial Primaries; Paulker, Murray-Bruce in, Lokpobiri out
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Chairman, Senate Committee on Oil and Gas, Downstream sector, Senator Emmanuel Paulker and former Director General,…
10 NYSC members involved in auto crash
Jethro Ibileke/Benin No fewer than 10 university graduates travelling to Bayelsa state from Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo state were Tuesday…
Ben Murray Bruce to contest for Bayelsa Senate seat
Ben Murray-Bruce, the entertainment business mogul and Chairman of Silverbird group, has promised to work toward the eradication of poverty…
Soldier injured as JTF repels pirates attack
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, ‘Operation Pulo Shield’ says its troops have repelled a second attack…
Bayelsa in shock over Alamieyeseigha’s son’s untimely death
The Bayelsa state government has expressed shock over the sudden demise of the son of the first civilian governor of…
Bayelsa Court Bars British Lawyer From Oil Spill Suit
Henry Ojelu Justice E.G. Omokuro of a Bayelsa State High Court, Sagbama Division, has restrained a British lawyer, Mr Martyn…
IPMAN acquires 1,000 hectares for N495bn refineries
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Monday announced its commitment to provide leadership in establishing private refineries.…
Search for kidnapped Bayelsa monarch’ s brother intensifies
Unidentified gunmen who kidnapped 64-year-old Mozilla Agara, younger brother of King Mozi Agara, the Paramount Ruler of Kolokuma Kingdom in…
Bayelsa gets own security outfit to monitor pipeline vandalism
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A commercial security outfit, the Izon-Ibe Security Company Limited has been incorporated by the Bayelsa State Government.…
Koluama youths invade Chevron over non payment of compensation
Youths from Koluama communities in Bayelsa, have invaded the North Apoi oil platform operated by Chevron over non payment of…
Electricity company decries equipment vandalism in Bayelsa
The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) said on Sunday that the vandalism of its equipment in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital,…
JTF raids kidnappers den in Bayelsa creeks, recover arms
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, on Thursday said its troops swooped on hideouts…
Bayelsa sets up task force to tackle insecurity in creeks, waterways
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has inaugurated an 11-man task force to police the creeks and waterways across the state…
Gunmen abduct Bayelsa Speaker’s brother
Gunmen in the early hours of Monday abducted Iniokpoemi Benson, a younger brother to the Speaker of Bayelsa House of…
JTF, Police repel pirates’ attack in Bayelsa
The Joint Task Force (JTF) and Police in Niger Delta said on Thursday it repelled attack by suspected pirates on…
Suspected pirates kill 2 in Bayelsa
Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Sunday attacked a passenger boat on the Ogbia-Nembe waterways and killed two persons.…
Jonathan tasks Bayelsans on agric development
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged the people of Bayelsa state to engage in vigorous undertakings to speed up the economic…
Kidnapped mother in-law of Speaker released
Mrs Ogboro Orumo, the kidnapped mother-in-law of the Speaker, Bayelsa State House of Assemly, has been released by her abductors…