With zoning as an issue ahead of the November 16 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, the former director-general of Seriake Dickson Governorship Campaign Organisation, Fred Agbedi, has dismissed zoning as a veritable principle. Agbedi, one of the leading contenders for…
Next Bayelsa gov will emerge through prayers, consultations –Dickson (Punch)
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has said that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, who will eventually succeed him, would emerge through intense prayers and consultations. Dickson spoke at the monthly Praise Night and the eighth edition of…
How jealous Bayelsa lover shot girlfriend to death for cheating (Punch)
There was shock and disbelief among residents of Oluasiri in the Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Sunday as a young man in his late 20s reportedly shot his girlfriend to death for allegedly cheating on him. A…
Bayelsa Commission of Inquiry on Environmental Degradation tours the state
The Bayelsa State Commission of Inquiry on Environmental Degradation has been hard at work taking a tour of the communities to see firsthand the impact of the activities of the International Oil Companies on the environment just a day after…
Three Keke NAPEP riders nabbed for alleged gang rape of minor (Guardian)
Operatives of the Bayelsa State police command have arrested three commercial tricycle riders popularly known as Keke NAPEP over the alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Yenagoa. The minor was reportedly gang-raped by the men in an uncompleted…
Bayelsa APC attacks Clark, Adebanjo, Nwodo for anti-Sylva comment (Punch)
The All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State has slammed as “offensive, unwarranted and disgraceful” a statement attributed to the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum accusing a former governor of the state Timpire Sylva of “terrorising residents with impunity.” The…
PDP tells Buratai to probe military’s role in Bayelsa electoral violence
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has appealed to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to investigate the role of the military in the violence that occurred in the state during the last general elections.…
INEC to conduct supplementary poll in 3 Bayelsa constituencies (Guardian)
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct a supplementary election in the three constituencies that elections were declared inconclusive in Saturday’s state house of assembly election in Bayelsa. Mr Wilfred Ifogah, INEC Head of…
Dickson deplores military’s role in presidential poll (Guardian)
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has again accused military operatives of using brute force in the February 23 general elections in the state. The governor, while presenting flags to the party’s House of Assembly candidates in Yenagoa, described the…
How deputy commissioner of police escaped beheading by mob in Bayelsa (Guardian)
The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) in Bayelsa State, Kolawole Okunola, who was abducted by armed thugs during the last presidential and National Assembly election, and brutally manhandled, was at the point…