The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has formally launched the state’s electronic court filing system. The governor, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by his...
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has responded to a leaked nude video of a South African lawmaker, Zanele Sifuba, which has been making the rounds...
Ninety-three people have been killed while 1.3 million were affected by the floods in Bayelsa State, according to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). The agency,...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Duoye Diri, has issued a scathing criticism at the Federal Government over its seeming indifference to the plight of affected communities...
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), on Monday, announced that it was looking into a complaint of an oil spill from one of its...
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has sworn in his second wife, Patience Zuofa-Diri, and three other legal practitioners as High Court judges in the state....
A 46-year-old man, Patrick Markson, has allegedly killed his wife, Hannah, over a contract sum of N800,000, before committing suicide at their residence in the Etegwe...
The Bayelsa State government says it has uncovered 612 ghost teachers in the state primary schools on government payroll. A review by the state’s committee on...
The Bayelsa State Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Other Related Matters investigating extra-judicial killings by the police during the #EndSARS protests last year, has...
The Bayelsa Police on Friday, arrested two suspected kidnappers and freed an abducted female civil servant kidnapped in Yenagoa, the state’s capital. It was learnt that...
Pandemonium struck in Peremabiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when gunmen invaded the area torching no fewer than 20 houses in...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been told to keep his comments over the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos by soldiers....
The Bayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Saturday affirmed the election of Senator Duoye Diri as Bayelsa State Governor. The tribunal, in its judgment...
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has been given 21 days to pay an alleged debt of $14 million or have their facilities shut down....
The Bayelsa State government said Saturday two coronavirus patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation facilities after they recovered from the disease. The Deputy Chairman...
The governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri has revealed how the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, told him he...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide on Friday said there are plans by disgruntled politicians to visit Bayelsa State with violence ahead of the Supreme Court...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has confirmed the death of no fewer than 4 soldiers in an ambush by unknown gunmen...
The Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Monday Bubou-Obolo, on Wednesday announced his resignation from the position as number three citizen of the state....
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, on Sunday described the Supreme Court judgement that declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Douye Diri,...
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal has been appointed as the new chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum. He was appointed for the position...
Details have emerged of how a Lagos-based billionaire, Chief Ignatius Odunukwe was murdered, his corpse cut into pieces, packed in a bag and dumped in a...
All Progressives Congress (APC) has applauded the Appeal Court judgment upholding the qualification of Bayelsa Deputy Governor-elect Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on...
A magistrate court sitting in Bauchi on Thursday ordered the detention of a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi, Umar Muhammed Mai Fata for...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday described the November 16 governorship election in the state as a well-organised conspiracy against the people. Dickson, who addressed...
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has appealed to one of the party’s governorship aspirants in Bayelsa, Heineken Lokpobiri, to...
The dust raised by the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the governorship election in Bayelsa State is yet to settle, as the Elders...
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday held a closed-door meeting with the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams...
The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson has appointed a new head for the state civil service and 32 new permanent secretaries. He said the...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has described Saturday’s governorship election in the state as a military coup. He claimed that the election was a charade and...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said on Monday the outgoing Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, made it easy for the All...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Duoye Diri, has rejected the declaration of the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, David Lyon, as...
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), on Monday released its report on the conduct of the elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states. The group described the...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has frowned at reports of electoral violence during the governorship polls held in Bayelsa and Kogi states on Saturday. He warned...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the sack of the current Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu. HURIWA urged President...
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says the outcome of the Kogi and Bayelsa elections is proof that Nigerians believe in...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has alleged that members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have joined forces with security agents in the state...
The state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, is under tight security as officers of the Nigerian Police Force, Department...
Some men suspected to be political thugs have allegedly hijacked and destroyed election materials in some parts of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused thugs loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) of hijacking electoral materials in Nembe area of Bayelsa State. In...
A heavy military presence has been witnessed in many local government areas of Bayelsa State ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in the state following the killing...
With just four days to the Bayelsa State governorship election, the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday disqualified the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, alleged on Monday that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies are not working towards a peaceful election in...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Friday morning. 1. MINIMUM WAGE: Labour gives govs Dec. 31 to end negotiations Nigerian state governors...
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has stated that Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, was to blame for the flooding of the runway...
With just 10 days to the Bayelsa State governorship election, the two major parties in the state have re-enacted the rivalry with an exchange of words...
The governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, on Sunday said he would present the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri and his running...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it is set to create additional polling units across Nigeria. The electoral body revealed on Thursday that...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday debunked claims he was supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) to win the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the federal government not to pay a N7 billion Value Added Tax (VAT) refund to the Bayelsa State government,...
