The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris on Tuesday disclosed that the £4.2m looted by ex-Delta State Governor, James Ibori, has been returned to the...
The Bayelsa State government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the state in a bid to prevent the spread of the new variants of COVID-19. The...
The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has revealed that investments into Nigeria witnessed a significant increase in the first three months of the year. According to...
It was mixed fortunes for Nigerian states, as 18 states out of 36 including federal capital territory recorded negative Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This...
As part of efforts to protect the forest reserves and rare plant species in Bayelsa State, the governor of the state, Duoye Diri, has banned all...
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, has ordered an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of a youth on Thursday, in Ovom community, Yenagoa Local Government...
A 56-year-old man, Christopher Chiabata, who beat his wife to death with a pestle has been arrested by the police in Onuebum Community in Ogbia Local...
Health workers in Bayelsa will begin an indefinite strike on Friday over non-payment of salary arrears by the state government. The Chairman of Medical and Health...
The Bayelsa State Police Command said on Monday four members of rival cult groups died in a shootout at Lobia community, Southern Ijaw local government area...
Three police operatives on Friday drowned in a river in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. The policemen, who were deployed to Bayelsa for...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said on Sunday the All Progressives Congress, (APC) would clinch two senatorial seats in the December...
Three women were hit by stray bullets in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses told journalists the incident occurred when police officers who were on patrol...
A 30-year-old teacher, Promise Sylvanus Ogun, has been accused of raping a 13-year-old pupil to death in Bayelsa State. Ogun, a teacher at the school located...
The Nigerian Army on Friday launched Operation Crocodile Smile VI exercise in the South-South state of Bayelsa. The event took place at the Army Super Camp,...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the election of Douye Diri as the governor of Bayelsa State when it dismissed the appeal against his deputy, Lawrence...
Suspected cultists on Monday killed one person inside the premises of a telecommunication company, MTN, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The victim, Victor Abasi, was killed when...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the suit brought by the Bayelsa State government seeking to stop the Federal Government from further paying the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed indefinitely the 15 by-elections in 11 states across Nigeria over the #EndSARS protests. The by-elections were initially slated...
The appeal court on Friday overturned a ruling which had earlier nullified the election of Douye Diri as governor of Bayelsa State. The five-man panel stated...
Ballooning debt portfolio, a penchant for committing funds to expenditures that are not capable of delivering utilitarian value and absence of a shrewd fiscal planning have...
The police on Wednesday produced Bayelsa State governorship candidate of the Liberation Movement, Vijah Opuama, in court. The Force had on two occasions failed to comply...
The immediate past governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, on Saturday emerged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the October 31 by-election in Bayelsa West...
Gunmen on Saturday killed the councillor representing ward six in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Karma Agagowei. Agagowei was attacked by the hoodlums while...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated the new Bayelsa State Molecular Laboratory, Research and Diagnostic Centre for testing the novel COVID-19 disease. The...
The Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri, on Tuesday, appealed the state election petition tribunal’s nullification of last year’s governorship election in the state. The panel on...
“Sorry about your man” “Thank you” “You know I used to think that this COVID-19 thing is a kind of scientific joke, but now I am...
The Bayelsa State Governorship Petition Tribunal has nullified the election that produced Duoye Diri, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governor of Bayelsa State. The...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has deployed a new Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) to Bayelsa State. The INEC Head of Voters’ Education and Publicity in Bayelsa,...
The Bayelsa State police command on Thursday confirmed the killing of four persons including a man and his pregnant wife by gunmen in the state. The...
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri has called for accelerated process towards the granting of fiscal autonomy for the judicial arm of government. The governor made the...
Napoleon Alale, the abducted 80-year-old father of the chairman of the Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State, has been freed by his kidnappers. The octogenarian...
The Bayelsa State government has issued guidelines to ensure that schools are safe to allow final year students resume and participate in external examinations as directed...
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 Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has denied that it constructed a wooden bridge worth N2.3 billion for the Elebele community in Ogbia local government area...
The Bayelsa State government has stated its readiness to pay special allowances to front-line health workers combating the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the state....
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, on Monday rejected the congratulatory message from a former governorship aspirant in the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Timi...
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the appeal filed by Timi Alaibe challenging the declaration of Duoye Diri as the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party...
The Bayelsa State government has confirmed the death of another patient who died after contracting the dreaded COVID-19 disease in the state, according to an update...
The Bayelsa State government has confirmed no fewer than seven new cases of the deadly COVID-19 virus and two deaths related to the fast spreading disease....
The government of Bayelsa has discharged 54 COVID-19 patients from the isolation centre in the state. The state Director of Public Health, Dr Yerinbuluemi Stow, disclosed...
The Bayelsa State government through its COVID-19 Task Force has confirmed that it has recorded no fewer than 14 new cases of the deadly disease and...
The Bayelsa State government said on Saturday the state had recorded six more deaths from COVID-19 pandemic. The Deputy Chairman, Bayelsa State Task Force on COVID-19,...
Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) said on Thursday the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, did not demand $20 million from...
The Bayelsa State government said on Wednesday the state had recorded 54 new cases of COVID-19. The Deputy Chairman of the state’s Task Force on COVID-19,...
The Bayelsa State government has announced the death of another COVID-19 patient bringing the number of lives lost in the state to the deadly virus to...
The Director of Public Health, Bayelsa State Ministry of Health, Dr. Jones Stow, said on Tuesday the state had recorded its second COVID-19 death. Stow, who...
The Bayelsa State Government on Monday said it has sealed six churches in the state for breaching ”operational protocols” required to conduct services during the COVID-19...
The Bayelsa State government on Tuesday confirmed one new case of COVID-19 in the state, bringing the total number of people infected by the virus to...
Bayelsa government has confirmed three new COVID-19 cases in the state. It identified two of the cases as military officials, adding that the third case was...
The Bayelsa State Government on Tuesday said the state’s COVID-19 index case and two other patients linked with her have been discharged after fully recovering from...
