Tag: Bayelsa State

"For me, the solution to crime is to give people responsibility and make them have a source of revenue."

PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Osinbajo declared his intention to run for president on the APC platform. He will challenge ...

A house belonging to a federal lawmaker has been razed in the state.

Governor Douye Diri visited the police headquarters to condole with the Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, Ben Okoro, over the ...

“The Governor has continued to demonstrate good faith and is appreciative to the fingers of God that were used in ...

The breach of the pipeline cuts the oil firm’s gas export feed to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas gathering and ...

Blasts in oil pipelines had led to a shortfall of 25,000 barrels of crude oil and 23 million standard cubic ...

A community in Bayelsa State is suing Shell over May 17, 2018 oil leak from the oil firm’s Trans Ramos ...

The communities had given Shell a 14-day ultimatum.

The deputy governor of Bayelsa State appealed for calm and patience while the state government mediates between Shell and the ...

“The government will ensure she continues her education. The victim, a Junior Secondary School student who aspires to be a ...

It was gathered that the gunmen who abducted the commissioner demanded the release of the father of their leader who ...

“The invaders forcibly shut down the facility and occupied the safe muster area. Nobody was hurt in the process and ...

Soot pollution in Port Harcourt. Picture credit: The Guardian NG. ...now is the time to work ...

A PREMIUM TIMES review of the November oil spill in Bayelsa State, one of the worst in recent years, finds ...

Picture credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/BBC ... the skies of Rivers State are often covered with thick ...

“There is nowhere in the world an oil spill of such magnitude will occur and the legislators would be silent.”

The company says it will clean up the environment later.

The women were protesting the alleged exclusion of their community from a road construction project in Bayelsa State, Nigeria’s South-south.

The recent court judgement was silent on the N17.5 billion ecological funds which were allegedly diverted by Seriake Dickson.

“What I saw in terms of the pollution… The devastation of the Niger Delta is massive.”

“The governor is gravely concerned that if the high volume of crude being spilled continuously is not stopped immediately, it ...

The bank is expected to open a branch in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, soon, PREMIUM TIMES learned.

“It’s for children under the age of five, for pregnant women, the elderly and the vulnerable in society.”

The police commissioner commiserated with the family of the deceased.