Bayelsa

A Bayelsa-based newspaper publisher, Jones Abiri was whisked away on Saturday by security personnel in plain cloth believed to be men of the Department...

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has accused multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta of funding “terrorism, criminality and breakdown of law...

By Shina Badmus Four children have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous carbon-monoxide fume expelled from a generator that powered their house. According to residents of...

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested some suspected armed robbers, who specialised in robbing residents in Yenagoa, the state capital, using a commercial...

An entrepreneur in the oil and gas sector, Mr. Keniebi Okoko, has identified poor mental disposition of many people in Bayelsa State as the...

By David Owei When Prince Abraham Donokoromo (aka Isaba Abraham), started hobnobbing with musicians at the age of 12 years, his parents were vehemently against...

I’ve delivered on another ambitious project, says Dickson https://www.facebook.com/patience.owe.9/videos/2054622267955404/?t=75 It was a day of joy in Bayelsa State Thursday as the first airplane marked 5N-BUV, touched...

By Shina Badmus The Egbema-Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF) a community-based organisation (Regional Development Committee) under the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) pioneered by the...

Hundreds of All Progressives Congress members and its supporters took to the streets of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, in protest over the alleged...

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment Prof. Nelson Brambaifa as Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission...

The Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has announced the appointment of the immediate past acting Director General of the Department of State Services...

The Bayelsa State Government has moved against the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mukan, deployed to the state by the Inspector- General of Police,...

All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State and the state government were yesterday engaged in diatribe over an alleged fraud in the International Cargo...

The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has said his administration is not in a hurry to reopen shut schools in the state because...

Flood has taken over parts of Otuoke Community, hometown of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Otuoke...

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday described the flood that ravaged some communities in Bayelsa as a “monumental disaster.” Osinbajo who spoke at...

No fewer than 500 rice farms at Okpotuwari and Ondewari communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, have been submerged by flood,...

...APC folding up in Bayelsa - Dickson A prominent Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development...

By Loveth Ojogun Two prominent Ijaw youth leaders from Bayelsa State on Thursday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the fallout of the party’s...

...Gov. Urges FG to Declare Flood Emergency in Bayelsa By Enaibo Asiayei Governor of Bayelsa State,  Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has raised the alarm that over...

By Enaibo Asiayei Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has called the attention of the country to the unfair balkanisation of Ijaw clans...

The Bayelsa state Government on Friday imposed a curfew on Twon Brass in the Brass Local Government Area of the state, where three persons...

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has paid glowing tributes to his late mother, Goldcoast Dickson, whom he described as an integral part of his...

The proud and ancient Kingdom of Gbaraun and the people of Bayelsa State will be making history Thursday August 30, 2018, with the crowning...

A new police commissioner, Austin Awar, has been sent to the Bayelsa State command by the Force Headquarters. Awar resumed in the state following confusion...

Bayelsa State Government has said that it would give priority to the payment of workers’ salaries in consonance with the emphasis placed on workers by...

A water scheme with capacity for 20, 000 gallons has been inaugurated in Agbere, a community in Bayelsa State. The facility will serve over...

Reactions have continued to trail the security architecture bill in Bayelsa State following the public hearing on "Community Safety Corps Bill 2018 and the...

The Oil and Gas Producing Areas Enlightenment and Empowerment Initiative (OGPAEEI), an NGO in Bayelsa, says over 50 fishing settlements have been destroyed by...

The Bayelsa government said the ongoing public service reforms has reduced its workforce from 55,000 to 27,000, thus fishing out and expunging 28,000 ghost...

...He was brought in dead to general hospital, Sagbama, says Chief Matron YENAGOA - The Chief Matron of General Hospital, Sagbama, who was by the...

The Dean, School of Foundation Studies, University of Africa (UAT), Toru-Orua, Prof. Prince Efere, has been reportedly found dead in his office. It was gathered...

...You must bring the perpetrators to book, IYC tells Buhari In what the community dwellers described as commando style, the Nigerian Army in the early...

...The police have no role to play in the resolution-Omare The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide has condemned in strong terms the brutal murder of...

…But, I will not accept it - Joshua Maclver     An Ex-Militant leader in the Niger Delta region and the immediate past caretaker Chairman of Southern...