The Labour Party governorship candidate in the 2023 election in Bayelsa State, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, on Tuesday formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). Eradiri, who...
Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and police operatives attached to the Ekeki Division in Bayelsa State clashed over attempts to arrest a...
Gunmen have beheaded a candidate for a traditional stool in the riverside town of Agbere, Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State, Mr. Clement Hamo. The...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the Bayelsa State Government-owned Niger Delta University today declared an indefinite strike over the government’s alleged failure to...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised seven states in the country to be prepared for floods that would soon affect communities in their territories....
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has approved Governor Douye Diri’s request to appoint an additional 12 special advisers. The House, which resumed from recess on...
The Federal Government on Friday alerted Nigerians on the rising water levels of the River Niger. The Director-General of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Umar...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced that Bayelsa State will experience a prolonged blackout due to the vandalism of 13 transmission towers along the...
At least 20 persons died when a wooden cargo boat identified as “Godbless Dickson,” burst into flames in Bayelsa waterways on Wednesday. The boat carried 64...
The 6 Division, Nigerian Army, has recovered 238,500 litres of stolen crude oil from suspected oil thieves in three states in the South-South. The division’s spokesman,...
Justice D.E. Adokeme of the Bayelsa State High Court, Yenagoa, has sentenced a 41-year-old man, Baridapsi Needam, to 14 years imprisonment for impregnating his daughter. The...
The Nigerian Navy has impounded three barges laden with suspected stolen crude oil at Tunu Community Creek, Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa State. The Commander...
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, directed its committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to investigate the contract by the Commission for the Opokuma Clean...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the abandoned erosion protection contract awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Kolokuma/Opokuma, Bayelsa State. This...
Multiple explosions were reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa local government area of...
About 20,000 children in Bayelsa State have not had access to immunisation due to the terrain and riverine nature of the state, the United Nations Children...
The Nigerian Navy has arrested two persons and seized one tank truck over alleged crude oil theft in Bayelsa. The Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship...
The Bayelsa State police command on Wednesday confirmed the death of 28-year-old Victor Namabebe in a cult clash in the state. The command’s spokesman, Musa Mohammed,...
Governor, Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has decried the killing of 17 soldiers drafted to the Okuama Community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of...
The Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Friday scheduled April 22nd for the adoption of final written addresses in the case challenging...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, and his party on Tuesday closed their case in the petition challenging Governor Douye...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the Amassoma Community Shoreline Protection Project in Bayelsa State by the Niger Delta Development...
A middle-aged man simply identified as Tony has allegedly beheaded his girlfriend, Ebibraaladei Maxwell, at the Kabeama coastal settlement in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa...
Fire on Saturday destroyed property and goods worth millions of naira at Amarata community in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State. However, no life was...
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Friday commenced a probe into the activities of the Ministry of Health, the state’s Health Insurance Scheme (BHIS), and...
President Bola Tinubu on Friday urged governors elected on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform to always put the interest of the people first and work...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa has confirmed the release of its officials abducted by criminals at the Brass local government area collation centre...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, declared incumbent Governor, Douye Diri, as winner of the Bayelsa State governorship election held on Saturday. Diri scored...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted the collation of results of the Bayelsa State governorship election to 12:00 p.m., on Monday. The state’s Returning...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to move the collation of election results from the Brass local...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the collation of results for Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State. At least 16 political parties, including the...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Saturday decried the widespread vote-buying and violence in the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship elections. A member of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) abducted in Bayelsa State has regained his freedom. The victim, a Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO), was abducted by gunmen on...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday night, said one of its officials in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State had been abducted....
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has assured the people of Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi of adequate security during Saturday’s governorship elections in the three...
The tension at the Twon Brass jetty in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was evident on Friday throughout the process of the Independent...
The Abuja Division of the Appeal Court on Friday, again dismissed a suit seeking to disqualify former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, from...
The Nigeria Police Force has declared that the three senatorial districts in Bayelsa State are politically volatile, just as residents of the state go to the...
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday warned troublemakers to stay away from Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi during the weekend’s governorship election in the states. The Director of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Tuesday 137,973 polling and collation agents would be involved in the weekend’s governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo, and...
The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered restriction of movement in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States effective from Friday. The off-cycle governorship election will take...
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has banned Very Important Persons (VIP) from moving around with police escorts during the November 11, 2023 governorship elections in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday night assured Nigerians that the results of the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States...
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the distribution of 220 operational vehicles to Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi ahead of the November 11 governorship elections...
Three states in Nigeria, with a combined estimated population of over 12 million people, would hold the first leg of the country’s off-cycle gubernatorial elections on...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday, noted that conducting the November 11 governorship polls in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo will not be...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has raised concerns over pre-election litigations which it says would pose a challenge ahead of the off-season governorship polls in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Friday it was still awaiting the court’s decision on the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate for the November...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will transmit the results of the November 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States electronically. The Bayelsa State...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Tuesday expects 5.4 million voters are expected to vote in the November 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo,...