It was double joy for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a Yenagoa Magistrate’s Court in Bayelsa State on Tuesday freed 44 detained members of...
The killers of a surveyor in the employ of the Bayelsa government, who was on official duty when he was attacked, have been sentenced to death...
Ozizebiri community, in Southern Ijaw Bayelsa State has been in turmoil following the death of a 22-year-old man allegedly stabed to death by a a new...
THE struggle for supremacy between suspected rival cult groups have claimed two lives in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. It was gathered that the incident occurred, Wednesday,...
A policeman attached to the Bayelsa Police Command on Tuesday shot his colleague dead over a N20, 000 largesse. The incident occurred following an argument between...
Emotions ran wild on Saturday at Ebebelibiri Cemetery, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as family members and sympathisers gathered to bury the remains of Master Innocent Kokorifa, a...
The Bayelsa State Government has lamented that the state experienced over 1000 oil spills in 2014 alone. The state government also expressed concern over the menace...
The Presidency has said that there is no truth in allegations made by a group of protesters in Bayelsa state that the bank accounts of former...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday in Yenagoa, described as mischievous and total display of ignorance, claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that Governor...
A policeman serving as an aide-de-camp to a politician in Bayelsa State has been killed by gunmen. It was gathered that the policeman whose identity was...
with this body below, and put on social media handles: The governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, recorded another victory on Thursday, as the Court of...
Sudden appearances of snakes especially Cobras on streets and homes in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital is creating panic among residents. Some persons attributed the development to...
The Nigerian Army’s Operation Crocodile Smile in the Niger Delta ran into troubled waters on Monday, when four soldiers who were part of the operation died...
About four policemen have been arrested and detained for the alleged extra-judicial killing of 17-year-old boy, Innocent Kokorifa. The victim, first out of five children of...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria will overcome its present challenges, which he said is for some moments. He urged Nigerians to be prepared...
Abductors of Chief W.G. Watson, the 81-year-old father of a member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Chief Alfred Watson, have freed him. The lawmaker...
In a move that may open a can of worms in the oil rich Niger Delta, the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Wednesday, said...
The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe (ODS), says it has killed two members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and arrested...
In a bid to end the renewed militancy, kidnappings and other forms of criminality in the state, Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has appointed a former...
Kidnappers of Chief Watson Iti, the father of the member representing Brass Constituency 2 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Alfred Belimote Watson have demanded N70...
The people of Kaiama in Kolokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, have deserted their homes over fear of military attack. Kaiama, home of Ijaw hero,...
Despite reported breakthrough in preliminary negotiations between the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND and the Federal Government through oil companies and security agencies,...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday, warned against the use of military option in solving the Niger Delta Crisis, saying it was not...
The paramount ruler of Oluasiri, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa state, Chiefson Awululu, was on Tuesday attacked with machetes by suspected assassins in his house in...
The Niger Delta Avengers say they have once again successfully carried out attacks in three oil trunks in Bayelsa and Rivers states on Friday. The group...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), said militants in Bayelsa state, early hours of Friday, blew up the Tebidaba-Brass Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC...
Apparently suspecting that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal has an interest in the forthcoming judgment of Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal...
One of the greatest menace to the Nigerian government, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, who have continued to defile all security checks to attack oil installations in...
In what has been described as a daring move, gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, Sunday night, attacked the Castle Hotel located inside the Bayelsa State Government...
The resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta assumed another dimension on Tuesday, as three soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta,...
The Bayelsa State government has sealed the premises of Gbaran Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas facility, a property of the Shell Petroleum Company of Nigeria Ltd....
The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, has stepped into the crisis rocking the Bayelsa state chapter of the party by nullifying suspensions carried...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday admitted having failed in the conduct of the Kogi nad Bayelsa governorship elections, as well as the rerun elections in Rivers...
It seems a showdown between Nigeria’s security forces and militants in the Niger Delta area is imminent as the ‘freedom fighters’ have relocated to the creeks...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last night announced results from few local government areas in the governorship supplementary held in Southern Ijaw local government area and other...
Seems the women and youths of Oporoma, headquarters of Southern Ijaw LGAs, Ekowe and Otuan communities have resolved to take their destiny into their hands by...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed January 9 for the rescheduled governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and in...
In from Nifemi Daniel . . . The kidnappers of the mother of U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia have made a demand for N150 million as...
In what is believed to have been inspired by the forthcoming governorship elections in the state, a bloody fight was on Tuesday averted in Bayelsa State...
There was mild drama on Saturday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State in the run up to the December 5, governorship election in the state as supporters of...
Ahead of the rescheduled governor primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, the two main candidates in the contest seem to have taken...
Despite the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claim that Timi Alaibe has the biggest political baggage among the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidates in Balyesa...
In from Enite Benjamin … Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Col. Sam Inokoba (rtd), who recently defected to the All...
There are indications that the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party’s...
Joseph Agama, younger brother to the minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke was on Thursday morning kidnapped by gunmen in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. This...
