Tag: Bayelsa
Debt recovery: Doyin Okupe gets temporary reprieve
Akin kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, south west Nigeria, has adjourned till 27 October this year,the debt…
INEC approves 50 observer groups for Kogi, Bayelsa polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has approved 50 groups to observe the forthcoming Kogi and Bayelsa governorship…
NSCDC destroys 10 illegal refineries, seizes 42 oil tankers
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it destroyed eight illegal refineries in three states and seized 42…
Bayelsa Poll: Jonathan, Ijaw leaders for Dickson’s declaration
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief D.S.P. Alamieyeseigha, Ijaw leaders from around the…
Bayelsa APC stalwart Inokoba, slumps, dies in Lagos
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Col. Sam Inokoba (retd) who defected to the All…
Bayelsa Police repel pirates’ attack on passenger boat, recovers arms
The Bayelsa Police Command on Sunday said its Marine Division in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state had…
Pirates attack boat, abduct 2 monarchs, security escort
Unidentified gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Wednesday, attacked two passenger boats and kidnapped three persons along the Ogbia…
NGE conference to hold in Yenagoa, Aug. 27
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) says it will hold the 2015 Annual All Nigerian Editors Conference (ANEC) on August…
Shell confirms multiple spills in Ikarama oil fields
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has confirmed multiple spills from its pipeline network in Ikarama oil fields in Yenagoa…
Gunmen kill Jonathan, ex-council chairman
Gunmen on Monday killed Mr Morris Jonathan, 34, former Chairman of Peremabiri Community Development Committee (CDC) in his residence in…
‘My Plans For All Stars FC’
The newly elected President of All Stars International Football Club, Mr Larry Ugo Ugoriji has promised to take the club…
Hyundai paid N30m ransom to Nigerian abductors
The alleged ringleader of a Nigerian kidnap gang said that Hyundai Heavy Industries paid nearly $200,000 in ransom to free…
Jonathan arrives Bayelsa for brother’s burial
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived his hometown Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government area of Bayelsa State for the…
Nigerian Sports Festival : Day 5 Round up
Some reports on actions on Saturday and Sunday 1-2 December at the National Sports Festival in Lagos Nigeria, tagged Eko…
In Pictures: Nigeria’s unprecedented flood disaster
President Goodluck Jonathan described the flooding of several Nigerian states a national disaster. He is dead right as some aerial…