Since the tenure of the elected local government chairmen and councillors in Bayelsa State expired in early 2022, the caretaker committees have been running the affairs of the eight local government areas and 105 wards in the state. The Bayelsa…
The managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Samuel Ogbuku, has described President Bola Tinubu as a leader who has the interest of the people at heart. Ogbuku’s commendation of Tinubu followed a presidential directive ordering a quick intervention in…
The minister of state for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, has promised that the federal government would resolve the ownership dispute around the Atala oil field promptly. Lokpobiri made the promise when the Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, paid him…
The Nigerian Navy has set ablaze four illegal oil refining sites in Rivers, Bayelsa and Ondo States between Saturday and Sunday. The Nigerian Navy, in a series of posts on its social media handles Monday said the clampdown on oil…
The All Progressives Congress, along with its candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship poll, Timipre Sylva, called a total of 52 witnesses, including a former Commissioner of Police in the state, Akeem Alausa, to close their case at the election…
The House of Representatives has called for the canalisation of the Epie Creek in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, to prevent flood. The lower chamber urged the Ministry of Niger-Delta Affairs and Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to award the…
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has expressed dissatisfaction with the eight local government area status of the state. Diri said it was unfair for the state to have only eight local government areas despite its huge contributions to…
BUSINESS DAY The people of Apoi Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State are in a state of panic over a looming military invasion following the killing of a soldier at the boundary of the community and…
PUNCH NEWS Last week, a former chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Tarinyo Akono, raised the alarm over an ongoing bush clearing for a fertilizer plant by Brass Fertilizer and Petrochemical Company Limited through…
THE SUN The Federal Government on Monday raised the alarm over low level of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by state governments and declared Katsina, Kebbi, Borno, Bayelsa and Taraba States have become insolvent after their IGR collections were declared “extremely poor”.…