Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has announced an extension of the stay-at-home order in the state by another week. In a statement in Yenagoa, the state...
An application filed by the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewrujakpor has been struck out by the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in...
Bayelsa government has arrested nine pastors for flouting the lockdown order in the state to hold church services. The Governor Douye Diri led government of the...
The government of Bayelsa State has warned residents to desist from consuming dead fishes currently littering the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean in the state. In...
The Bayelsa State government has said it would no longer maintain the welfare of Internally Displaced Persons from Peremabiri community. Peremabiri community is in the Southern...
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has imposed a five-day dusk-to-dawn curfew in the state. The development is part of the state government’s efforts to prevent the...
Suspected cult members on Sunday night invaded Azikoro-Agbura, Yenagoa, Bayelsa and killed one Senitonkumo Otu. The deceased, who was an artisan and in his mid- 30s,...
The Bayelsa State government said on Sunday two suspected COVID-19 cases in the state had tested negative for the virus. The Chairman of the Implementation Committee...
The Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri, has extended the lockdown in the state for two more weeks. At an enlarged meeting with members of the state’s COVID-19...
Gunmen on Thursday night abducted Madam Beauty Nimiyigha, mother of the Yenagoa local government chairman, Uropaye Nimiyigha. The octogenarian was kidnapped at her country home at...
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the All Progressives Congress (APC) application for a review of the February 13 judgment which nullified the party’s victory...
The Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, on Sunday dismissed claims he forged his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate, saying at no point...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the All Progressive Congress (APC) is now relying on clandestine moves to snatch Bayelsa State Governorship seat from...
Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo has said that the judgment of the Supreme Court sacking him and former governor-elect of Bayelsa State, David Lyon, left him traumatised and...
Enugu Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has denied being behind a viral video claiming that he had prophesied that the current Governor of Bayelsa State,...
Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, said on Sunday he left the state Government House a fulfilled man. The ex-governor said in a statement issued...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) calling for a fresh governorship election in Bayelsa State. This is despite...
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Council, has condemned the attack on its radio station by an angry mob of protesters demonstrating against the...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, said on Friday, the party has rejected the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Hoodlums on Friday, attacked the Yenagoa home of Bayelsa State Governor-elect, Senator Duoye Diri, moments after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) issued him a Certificate...
A report by the Panel of Inquiry on the pre-election violence in Nembe Local Government Area (LGA) of Bayelsa State has revealed that 21 persons died...
Bayelsa State government has appealed the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which ceded the disputed Soku oil wells to Rivers State. The Solicitor General...
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...
Gunmen on Sunday abducted the son of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Nengi Talbot. The hoodlums stormed Taibot’s residence at the Commissioners’ Quarters...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday set aside the disqualification of the state deputy governor-elect, Biobarakuma Degi- Eremieyo. Justice Iyang Ekwo of the...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has accused his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, of promoting “wicked clandestine ethnic supremacist agenda” in the politics of Rivers. In...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, on Friday signed into law the state House of Assembly Service Financial Autonomy Bill and Legislative Funds Management (Amendment) Bill, 2019....
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has been sued over alleged corruption in Bayelsa State. The suit with number FHC/ABJ/CS/1613/2019,...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the transfer of Soku oil field from Bayelsa to Rivers State. The judge, who...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Munguno on Wednesday described the November 16 governoship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states as a ‘fiasco where the unthinkable...
There was a mild drama at the meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with state chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the President had to...
The Managing Director of Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production, Victor Okonkwo said on Wednesday that the company has lost about four million barrels of crude to...
Gunmen have reportedly abducted three final year students of the Bayelsa State College of Health Technology in Ogbia local government area of the state. The students...
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...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has argued that the confession by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that its card readers were being circumvented confirmed its...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has responded to scathing remarks made about him on the recently held governorship election in Bayelsa State by a former governor of...
At least chairmen of 62 political parties that took part in the November 16 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi on Monday indicted the security agents...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has labelled the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Federal Government as threats to the nation’s democracy following last Saturday’s governorship...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday in Yenagoa, presented the Certificates of Return to the winner of last Saturday’s governorship election in the state,...
You know when we were little kids they used to tell us about the Phoenix that would rise up from the flames of its demise. This...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has urged Governor Seriake Dickson to stop brooding over the loss of the Peoples Democratic Party at last Saturday’s governorship elections...
A member of the clergy, Adewale Giwa, has decried killings arising from electoral violence during the Bayelsa, Kogi state polls held on Saturday. Pastor Giwa warned...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has insisted that ‘policemen’ alleged to have disrupted the governorship poll in parts of Bayelsa and Kogi States were “fake”...
The House of Representatives minority caucus on Tuesday denounced the outcome of last Saturday governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States. The group led by Reps...
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has congratulated Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon, describing his victory as well...
The Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon, has expressed his gratitude to the people of the state. Lyon was declared winner of the election by the Independent...
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Bayelsa, David Lyon, for winning last Saturday’s election in the state. The Independent...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has thumped up the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States and said the forces of darkness failed. The party also...
A clergy and some communities in Bayelsa State have raised an alarm over an alleged plot by Nigerian military personnel to disrupt the collation of results...
From 8am today, Saturday, 16th November, 2019, the electorate in Bayelsa and Kogi States will troop out to vote for their next governors. In Bayelsa, the...
