Tag: Bayelsa
Court orders AGF to pay Bayelsa Govt $951m
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay 951 million dollars to the Bayelsa Government.
Just In: Bayelsa imposes curfew from 8pm to 6am
Bayelsa State Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the state as part of measures to prevent the spread of…
Agip shuts down Idu Well 11 in Bayelsa
The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on Wednesday confirmed an oil leak from its Idu oilfields at Egbebiri settlement within…
Bayelsa govt: We won’t retrench workforce amid dwindling revenue
The Bayelsa state government has assured civil servants in the state that it had no plans to downsize the workforce,…
Bayelsa Woman delivers sextuplets six years after having twins
Mrs Doris Levi Wilson, who hails from Koluama community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State has given…
Nengi was never removed as Face of Bayelsa girl Child – Diri’s spokesperson
Bayelsa State government has cleared the air over reports that Nengi was removed as the Face of Bayelsa Girl Child…
4 die in rival cults shootout in Bayelsa
Bayelsa Police Command said four members of rival cult groups died in a shootout at a wake in the early…
PDP 2 APC 0 in Bayelsa senate races
The Peoples Democratic Party won the two senate seats up for grabs in the bye-elections conducted on Saturday, leaving the…
Boat mishap: Bodies of 6 missing policemen in Bayelsa recovered
The Police Command in Bayelsa has announced the recovery of bodies of the six policemen who went missing after a…
3 policemen drown in Bayelsa on way for election duties
Three yet-to-be identified policemen drowned on their way to Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa.
Again, oil spill pollutes Bayelsa communities
Another oil leak, the third in six months, has discharged a yet-to-be-ascertained volume of crude oil polluting the Okpoama community…
Gov Diri swears in 5 new commissioners, 25 special advisers
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, on Monday, swore in two new cabinet Commissioners, three non-Executive Commissioners of the state Local…
Kidnapped Elaweremi Samuel freed in Bayelsa
The Bayelsa Police Command has intensified efforts to arrest kidnappers of a retired civil servant, Dr Elaweremi Adu Samuel in…
Gunmen kill couple, 2 others inside church, burn cars
Nigerian Police have begun a massive manhunt for unidentified gunmen, who stormed a church in the southern state of Bayelsa…
Bayelsa govt warns against consumption of dead fishes littering coastline
Bayelsa Government on Tuesday urged residents to abstain from harvesting, processing, eating or selling dead fishes currently littering the Atlantic…
Police officer shoots wife dead over child’s custody
Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a Police Inspector identified as Tuddy Warebayigha for shooting his wife dead. He was…
Bayelsa homeowners protest planned demolition of houses by Navy
Houses owners in Okoria community in Agudama-Epie, a suburb in Yenagoa, have protested against the alleged planned demolition of their…
APC kicks as Gov. Diri gets N2.9 billion loan to purchase cars
The Bayelsa chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated the state House of Assembly for the approval of N2.9…
Bayelsa: Supreme Court goofed, I didn’t forge any certificate, says Degi-Eremienyo
All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship election in Bayelsa State, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo has…
APC, Bayelsa conundrum: Who should be blamed?
Muiz Banire, a senior advocate of Nigeria and pioneer national legal secretary of the All Progressives Congress, holds Adams Oshiomhole,…
Four soldiers, two civilians gunned down in Bayelsa
Four soldiers and two civilians have reportedly been killed by gunmen suspected to be sea pirates along the waterways of…
Sylva appeals for calm in Bayelsa, regrets Supreme Court provocation
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has urged the people of Bayelsa to shun all act…
Sylva calls for calm in Bayelsa
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has urged the people of Bayelsa to shun all act of…
Bayelsa: Buhari refused to interfere with the judiciary – Presidency
The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari refused to interfere with the judgment of the Supreme Court, annulling the…
Sporadic shooting as APC, PDP clash; massive protest rocks Bayelsa
Sporadic shooting erupted at Tombia roundabout and Akemfa in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State last night, which snowballed into massive protest following…
Bayelsa: PDP’s Diri falls short of constitutional requirement, INEC meets
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is meeting today after receiving on Thursday night the enrolled order of the Supreme…
Bayelsa Deputy Governor raises alarm over looting
Less than 13 days to handover to new governor in Bayelsa State, the Deputy Governor, Retired Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John…
Dickson approves minimum wage for Bayelsa workers
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson, has approved the payment of the 30,000 Naira new National Minimum Wage to workers in…
Gunmen abduct Bayelsa Commissioner’s six-year-old son
Some unknown gunmen in the late hours of Sunday, invaded the official residence of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water…
IGP must prosecute killers of PDP Women leader – Senate
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously condemned electoral violence, particularly killings in the Kogi and Bayelsa states' elections, following consideration of…