Tag: Bayelsa

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Joint Task ...

Mr. Okio was imprisoned for criticizing the Bayelsa State governor on facebook A business man, Tonye Okio, who was imprisoned ...

An NSCDC official accidentally gunned down a police officer in Bayelsa State. A member of the Nigerian Security and Civil ...

Staff accuse former rector of embezzling school's money Some workers at the Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe, Bayelsa State, have called for ...

Mr. Sylva was a former Bayelsa governor. By Arodiegwu Eziukwu The loyalists of former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, and members ...

Seventy percent of the recipients are from the Niger-Delta The Petroleum Training Development Fund, PTDF, has given scholarships to 60 ...

Group asks people to shun violence The ex-militants in Bayelsa State have applauded the policies and programmes of the state ...

President Jonathan budgets billions for Bayelsa project long completed, and fully paid for in 2006. President Goodluck Jonathan is asking ...

Academic activities would resume January 6. The Bayelsa government-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassoma, will resume academic activities on January 6, ...

The Bayelsa Governor visited the Rivers community. By Arodiegwu Eziukwu The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Monday visited Abonnema, ...

The competition is holding in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Benue and Delta States arrived with the largest contingents as the ...

The states include Adamawa, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Cross Rivers, Edo, Ekiti, Kogi, Niger, Ogun, Plateau and Zamfara. The National Coordinator of ...

200 Bayelsa indigenes just finished an agricultural training programme in Benin.   By Arodiegwu Eziukwu The Bayelsa State Government has said that ...

Four people were kidnapped in one month. By, Arodiegwu Eziukwu The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday said it was sad ...

Daniel Iworiso-Markson is the Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson. In this interview he speaks on ...

The kidnap occured three days after that of a commissioner's father. BY ‪Arodiegwu Eziukwu ‪The Bayelsa State Police Command on ...

Communities or criminals, a new report, goes deep to unearth the working of oil theft and illegal oil refining in ...

The Nigerian president addressed Anglican clerics in Bayelsa. President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said the Federal Government and security agencies ...

The kidnappers had demanded ransom of N30 million. The five construction workers who were kidnapped by gunmen in Bayelsa on ...

The youth charged the government to tackle unemployment. Some youth in Port Harcourt have cited unemployment and poverty as being ...

The barge sank in the St. Nicholas River in Bayelsa on Friday. The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger ...

The suspected confirmed he participated in the killings. The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has arrested ...

Shell said the spill was caused by sabotage. The Ikarama Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has ...

Environmentalists and members of the communities had raised concerns over the discharge of toxic gases and high temperature. The Shell Petroleum ...

The cause of the spill has not been confirmed. Residents of Ikarama community have reported that several oil spills from ...