Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has raised concerns over a planned mega rally and the inauguration of a group loyal…
Bayelsa Women Affairs Commissioner is dead
Mrs. Elizabeth Bidei, the commissioner for Women Affairs in Bayelsa State is dead. The death of Bidei was announced in…
Bayelsa working to address power challenges
The Bayelsa Commissioner for Information, Orientation, and Strategy, Mrs. Ebiuwou Koku-Obiyai, has said progress is being made to restore power…
Bayelsa LG APC Suspends Lokpobiri, Others
All Progressives Congress (APC) executives in Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State have suspended key party…
Bayelsa APC suspends Lokpobiri, Lyon, others
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has suspended Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri,…
Flights of fancy: Govs slammed for wasting N160bn on unviable airports
Six state governments including Ekiti, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Yobe, Nasarawa, and Bayelsa have spent about N160bn on airport projects that opposition…
27 states, FCT yet to set up minimum wage panels
Twenty-seven states and the Federal Capital Territory have yet to set up committees to implement the recently approved N70,000 minimum…
19 bodies recovered from Bayelsa boat mishap
Nineteen bodies have been recovered following Wednesday’s cargo boat accident along the Ezetu I community river in Southern Ijaw Local…
Police hunt ‘area boys’ for killing final-year Bayelsa varsity student over N150 levy
There is outrage in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State following the stabbing to death on Monday…
Two robbers bag five-year jail term
A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced two persons to five years imprisonment for conspiracy, armed robbery,…