•Governor Diri The Bayelsa State Government and the chairmen of the eight local government areas in the state have acceded to the demand of organised labour to pay the new N80,000 minimum wage to workers in the unified local government service. The state government, which had earlier approved the N80,000 minimum wage for workers in […]...
•Bayelsa school flood The Bayelsa State Government through the Ministry of Education has extended the 2024 flood break resumption date by one week. This is to allow flood water that took over most schools in the state recede, reports Daily Trust. The state government had earlier scheduled the schools to resume from flood break on […]
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has revealed that the Force has successfully recovered N10 million allegedly extorted from a group of young Nigerians by four officers in Bayelsa State. The officers, identified as ASP Emmanuel Ubong and Inspectors Nse Okon, Adiewere Collins, and Kuromare Marin...
The Bayelsa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has given the leadership of Oruma community in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state seven days to produce a pistol loaded with 15 rounds of live ammunition reportedly collected by some youths who attacked some operatives on an operation in the community […...
Airtel subscribers and customers in Bayelsa State experienced network outages today as youths said to be members of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), shut down Airtel’s distribution mast in Yenagoa, the state capital. The IYC Worldwide is staging a protest to demand the reversal of the diesel supply contract awarded to a non-indigenous contractor, re...
•Cultists Operatives of the Bayelsa State Vigilante Security Service have apprehended a suspected cult member, Christopher Izzy popularly called ‘Machanla’, over his alleged involvement robbery and cultism. The suspect, arrested on Monday, is a 26-year-old from Edo State, but resides in Bayelsa where he was said to have carried out nefarious a...
•Sylva and Ajaka A five-man panel of the Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship elections appeals filed by Muritala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Both Ajaka and Sylva challenged the declarations made by the Independent Electoral Com...
•Exploded boat Sixty-four Nigerians have been confirmed dead in multiple tragedies across the country over the last 72 hours, the latest being 30 people killed in a supremacy battle between militias in Benue State on Thursday. Rescue operations at the scene of a boat mishap in Bayelsa State have led to the recovery of 18 […]
•Late Banalayefa and wife, Evelyn Evelyn Asiayei, widow of Bayelsa driver, Banalayefa Asiayei, speaks to on the circumstances surrounding her husband’s death, reports Sunday PUNCH. How did you hear of your husband’s death? My name is Evelyn Onome Asiayei. My husband was from Bayelsa State, but I am from Delta State. I married Banalayefa Mark [...
•Illegal crude oil refinery The Nigerian Navy has continued its onslaught on crude oil theft in the country with the destruction of illegal refining sites in Bayelsa and Delta States yesterday, Wednesday, June 19. In a release yesterday, the Navy said its Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO discovered and deactivated a newly established illeg...
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