The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has warned members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa and Kogi States against contesting the November 16...
Senator-elect, Benjamin Uwajumogu, and his supporters on Monday stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC’s) office in Abuja to protest the commission’s denial to issue him...
Governorship aspirants under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State have been warned to desist from using perceived rift between former President...
Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has been contacted by suspected kidnappers that abducted his mother, Beauty Siasia, some days ago. The kidnappers who contacted the...
An All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Bayelsa State, Hieneken Lokpobiri, has asked the party to adopt indirect primary for election of its candidate for...
The bid by a former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Timi Alaibe to clinch the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed plans for the forthcoming governorship elections taking place simultaneously in Kogi and Bayelsa States on November 16. Chairman...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has bragged that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only political party with the popularity and strength to...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has denied claims of a rift between him and former President Goodluck Jonathan. While speaking at a live media chat at...
A joint operation by troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger delta and a local surveillance group has brought about the seizure of...
A mob yesterday lynched a suspected ritualist at Akenfa, a suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. He was reportedly caught while trying to cut the...
The Nigeria Police said on Saturday that it would apprehend those who killed a police sergeant on Friday night in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The...
Operatives of the Bayelsa State police command have arrested three commercial tricycle riders popularly known as Keke NAPEP over the alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old...
The Bayelsa State Government is insisting the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai produce the soldiers who killed Government House photographer, Mr Reginald Dei, and...
The Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday described former Governor Timipre Sylva as an unpopular and desperate politician whose conscience remains his greatest threat....
The umbrella body of the students in the country, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order a probe into...
Militants in the Niger Delta, the oil rich region in Nigeria, has cancelled its ceasefire issued to the Federal Government and the Pan Niger Delta Elders...
THE defection of three-time Commissioner of Information in Bayelsa State, Chief Nathan Egba, from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has...
The Bayelsa State Government has directed immediate closure of all schools in the state due to the current flooding in the state. The government said is...
Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson has said herdsmen who have been killing innocent Nigerians all over the country are known. The governor, who accused the Federal...
There is palpable tension in the Department of State Security (DSS) as presidency pressure has reportedly forced the acting director-general (Ag DG) Matthew Seiyefa to reverse...
A civil rights organization, Network for Peace and Development (NPD) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the lawmaker representing Brass constituency 1 in...
There is confusion in Bayelsa State over the deployment of four Commissioners of Police in the state within two weeks by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr...
Sharp criticisms on Sunday continued to trail what has been described as “an absurd display of wealth” by a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre...
The Bayelsa State Executive Council has threatened to arrest and prosecute any parent who refuses to send his or her child to school to acquire formal...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Monday threatened to name and shame politicians who are arming and supporting criminal elements in the society....
Bayelsa State Government on Tuesday explained that the November salary for civil servants had yet to be paid because the Federal Ministry of Finance has not...
The Bayelsa State Government on Sunday reacted to a claim by the media office of a former governor of the state, Timipre Silva Media Office describing...
As part of efforts to rid the state of wide spread pay roll fraud, the Bayelsa state government will soon implement the Public service reform committee...
The Bayelsa State Government on Friday announced the suspension of all forms of medical outreach program in public and private schools throughout the state. The decision,...
The Pan- Social -Cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has condemned what it said is the militarization of some part of the East under Operation Python...
The crisis rocking Ohanaeze Ndigbo Bayelsa State branch is not yet over as the youth wing of the group is still maintaining its stand that there...
The Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has taken over some bank accounts and properties traced to a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, erstwhile managing...
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said that governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states will hold before ending of 2019. Yakubu...
The police are now on the trail of an unidentified trader who allegedly slit the throat of her lover identified as Kingsley Pereowei, 38, in the...
A suspected notorious militant identified as “General Eagle”, has been arrested by the troops of Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe (ODS). The kingpin, who...
The Bayelsa State governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has presented the 2017 appropriation bill with an estimated budget of N221 billion to the State House of Assembly...
Civil servants in Bayelsa state who are on full time study-leave, without approval have run into troubled waters with the state’s governor, Seriake Dickson. Dickson, said...
The Bayelsa State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, has directed public primary and secondary school teachers in the state to stay off work...
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, one of the major oil producing states in Nigeria has insisted that it is not possible for his government to...
A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) identified as Mr. Ogundare Lawrence Opeyemi, has slumped and died in Bayelsa State. Opeyemi, it was gathered,...
No less than 23 militants were killed during a military operation in the Niger Delta tagged “Operation Crocodile Smile”. That much information was revealed by the...
Nigerians may be in for worse times in the months to come, as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Saturday,...
For flouting the directive of the headquarters against mounting of roadblocks, the Bayelsa State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, has ordered the arrest of two errant...
Following the recent flood alert issued by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET, the Bayelsa State Government has stepped up the clearing of major drainages and canals...
‘Reggae Blues’ crooner and Five Star music act Harrysong is thanking his stars after he narrowly escaped an auto crash with his crew members along Owerri-...
Reprieve has come the way of Yunusa Dahiru, aka Yellow, after he was freed from detention after trial following his abduction and forced marriage of 14-year-old...
In yet another brazen act, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, Friday morning, bombed a crude oil pipeline belonging to Agip ENI in Bayelsa state. This was...
The militant group, Niger Delta Avengers has called on “all groups parading themselves as freedom fighters”, to desist from killing soldiers, or any one for that...
The monthly wage bill of Sagbama Local Government in Bayelsa state has dropped from N200 million to N30 million, it was learnt on Friday. The situation...
