The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has called on police authorities to investigate the raid on the Abuja residence of Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba...
The body of a 78-year-old woman Madam Ayoko Owoko who was kidnapped in the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state has been...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a message to all those desiring to become the next governor of Bayelsa State, advising them on what their paramount...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State to reject the life pension bill passed by the state...
Unknown gunmen have abducted two staff of multi-national oil company, Shell, after killing a Spy policeman attached to them. The incident took place along Ahoada-Ndele-Rumuji axis...
One Munabo Tonworio has shot and killed his girlfriend, Victoria Ekalamene for allegedly cheating on him in Oluasiri community of Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states will hold on Novemeber 2. INEC National commissioner and...
Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has justified the award of an N88 million contract to empower 22 Niger Delta youths in barbing and beauty salon business, stating...
The timetable for the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states, which will hold later in 2019, will be released during the week. Chairman of the...
The new Commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe (ODS), Akinjide Akinrinade, has said that the JTF under his command would show no...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has blamed the prevalence of fake news in the country for the outbreak of violence during the conduct...
Women Arise Group, an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) accredited observer for the House of Assembly election in Bayelsa State, has said that voting did not...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Part for being responsible for the 63 card readers belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Following reports of a pipeline explosion in Nembe, Bayelsa, Aiteo Exploration Ltd has confirmed the incident, assuring that no life was lost in the Friday explosion...
Upon the collation of results at polling units, it is expected that the presiding officers of the unit paste the completed and signed election result sheets....
Armed thugs, assisted by soldiers are said to have disrupted voting in Nembe Basambiri and Okoroba areas of Bayelsa State. They were said to have stormed...
Five persons have been killed in various locations in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Among those shot dead at the separate incidents were one Diyelaimi Ben-Walson,...
The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, NIPC, has said that the country received investment committment worth $90.90 billion for 93 projects between January and December last year....
A rally organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Bayelsa West, Captain Karimu on Saturday turned bloody as one person was left dead...
Despite its avowed declaration to begin the much trumpeted Operation Python Dance nationwide on January 1, 2019, the Nigerian Army could not live up to its...
A group of militants in the Niger Delta have revealed that ammunitions and political thugs have been mobilised to Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States ahead...
Except urgent steps are taken to address the effects of turbulent ocean tide ravaging Nigeria’s shorelines, the entire beaches and waterfront communities bordering Atlantic Ocean may...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has summoned the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi to a crucial...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Federal Government and ruling All Progresives Congress (APC) of trying to takeover Bayelsa State using force in...
The federal government and international oil companies operating in the country are to calculate and negotiate arrears of contractual obligations to the latter and the benefitting...
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...
The total external debt owed by the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, rose by $131.55 million within the first...
THE criminal but lucrative crude oil refinery business, which once dominated the mangrove swamp of the Niger Delta is gradually being decimated, following sustained raids on...
Timipre Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa State, has linked defection to “mental instability”, adding that “impulsive” defectors need “psychiatric evaluation.” Sylva said this on Thursday while...
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 Commissioner for Youth Development, Otobo Ibarakumo, has resigned his appointment with the Seriake Dickson-led administration with immediate effect. Ibarakumo and his supporters on...
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has ordered the arrest of an official of a local government in the state for collecting the salaries of 300...
There were strong indications on Sunday that the crises that characterised congresses of the All Progressives Congress in some states on Saturday could lead to a...
Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said that it had prevented the payment of huge amounts of money to payroll fraudsters in its local government councils totaling...
Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for granting twenty-two licenses for refineries, one which was being...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo says he has no regrets from his time as leader of Nigeria which spans both military and civilian regimes, stating that he...
Former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan met in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as Obasanjo embarked on a 3-day working visit to the state on the invitation...
In its bid to curb the incidence of crime, the Bayelsa State government has concluded arrangements to partner with the police and also launch a crime...
The death of Nasko Egei, a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and a former aide of the Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson is...
The long arm of the law has caught up with three suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a prominent cattle dealer and three of...
The military has again moved into Peremabiri, a volatile coastal town in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State, after intelligence reports showed that militants were regrouping in the...
One of the quarantined patients of the monkeypox virus has committed suicide, the Bayelsa State government revealed Monday. The victim reportedly took his own life on...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Thursday, revealed that seven suspected cases of dreaded Monkey Pox have been recorded in four Hospitals in Abuja, with...
The threat of the monkeypox virus in Nigeria has risen further with the revelation of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that there were now...
Suspected militants have reportedly attacked a tugboat laden with crude oil, killing three crew members in the same area where about three weeks ago an ambush...
A 40-year-old man identified as Godbless Ogiode has been sentenced by a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State to eight years behind bars for...
A team of soldiers returning from the waterways of Letugbene community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State were killed when they were ambushed by...
Unknown gunmen, suspected to be militants, have reportedly killed four soldiers and a civilian in Bayelsa State. The suspects were said to have laid an ambush...
A 30-year-old fisherman identified as Ayebaeifin Gabriel was shot in the head by men suspected to be pirates in the Akassa community of Brass Local Government...
