Vice President Kashim Shettima arrived in Yenagoa shortly before 1:30 pm today, marking the official start of Governor Douye Diri’s inauguration ceremony. Shettima’s presence, alongside dignitaries...
As his first term draws to a close, Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has set the wheels in motion for a smooth transition by instructing...
A personal tragedy has fueled Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State’s call for urgent action against the crippling brain drain afflicting Nigeria’s health sector. Speaking at...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has voiced strong opposition to Bayelsa Governor Duoye Diri’s recent criticism of the Federal Government’s maritime security policy. In a statement...
The Captain of MT Kali, a vessel impounded by Tantita Security Services in Bayelsa State, Captain David Adeboye has said that he does not know how...
The Bayelsa Government has summoned the parents of a four-year-old girl who was allegedly given out in marriage to a 54-year-old man in the Akeddei community...
The Bayelsa State chapter of the Labour Party is currently enmeshed in internal wrangling with different factions expelling and suspending each other from the party. This...
A former Provost of the Isaac Jasper College of Education, Sagbama, Bayelsa State, Prof Saviour Agoro and a former accountant of the institution, Perez Lakemfa have...
Leader of The Force of Egbesu, General Gbolodi, has reacted to a trending video and statement allegedly issued by him over the weekend, on the military...
Niger Delta militant group, Force of Egbesu, says it has declared war on Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, presented certificates of return to Governor Douye Diri of Kogi State and Kogi State Governor-elect, Usman Ododo. The...
The redeployment of CP Tolani Alausa, the Commissioner of Police for Bayelsa State, has been ordered by Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, on Thursday. There...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, says the police is aware of plots to scuttle the November 11 governorship elections in Imo, Bayelsa, and...
Two-time governor of Bayelsa State and former Minister of State for Petroleum Reaources, Timipre Sylva was conspicuously missing from the amended list of candidates released by...
Despite his disqualification by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, Timipre Sylva, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the November 11 governorship...
The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to Monday’s disqualification of its governorship candidate in the state, Timipre Sylva, vowing to...
Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister for State, Petroleum Resources (oil) Heineken Lokpobiri has denied reports that he had entered into a strong alliance with the Governor...
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the forthcoming November 11, 2023 election in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri, on Wednesday, dismissed the ongoing recruitment of more political appointees by Governor...
The governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has asked the federal government for help in preventing coastal settlements in his state from being flooded by the...
Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri has unveiled 100 taxis and six luxury buses for a new transport scheme in the state as part of measures to...
Operatives of Daven Oil and Security Enterprises, a pipeline security contractors recently engaged by the Federal Government, along with officers of the Joint Task Force (JTF)...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has blamed failure of leadership on the part of the government of Bayelsa State for the demolition of the state’s property in...
The Bayelsa State Government has urged the federal government to quit making empty gestures over flood mitigation and control in states that will suffer from the...
The governments of Bayelsa and Rivers states are heading for a face off over the threat by the Rivers State government to take over and demolish...
Candidates in the recently conducted elections in Bayelsa State have filed 31 petitions before the Bayelsa State Election Petition Tribunal which began sitting in Yenagoa, the...
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...
