Bayelsa-based pastor, in-laws drown as boats collide on New Year’s evA 39-year-old clergy and seven other travellers drowned along Ogbeinbiri Community river in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State when two boats conveying passengers collided on Friday. According…
Authorities of the Bayelsa State Police Command have confirmed the arraignment in court of a 35-year-old man, Kelvin Ekuere, from Koluama community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over alleged illegal possession of firearms. Police spokesman, SP…
Gunmen, suspected to be sea pirates, in the early hours of Sunday attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa. The pirates ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass…
The Bayelsa Government has called on youths to support the fight against oil bunkering, illegal refining and other unwholesome activities that impact negatively on oil production and revenues accruing to the state. The Deputy Governor, Mr Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the…
A fresh devastating oil spill has been reported at a facility operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) around Ogboinbiri in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The oil leakage, which occurred on October 17 at…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has dragged a 19 years old girl, Miss Charlotte Delhi, before the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa over alleged involvement in the sharing of the nude video of a former Permanent Secretary of…
…as IGP enjoins Bayelsans to accord the new CP maximum cooperation The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc has ordered the posting of CP Ben Nebolisa Okolo, fdc to Bayelsa State as the new Commissioner of Police (CP)…
Stakeholders in the oil and gas industry have demanded for the relocation of the headquarters of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) from Yenagoa, Bayelsa, to ensure safety of life of employees of the Board and personnel of operating…
The Management of Bayelsa Oil Company Limited has said that the loss of its operating license in the last marginal oilfields licensing rounds was due to betrayal by its former partners. Recall that the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on…
Bayelsa’s Gov. Douye Diri on Thursday in Yenagoa expressed satisfaction with the level of construction on the second phase of the Sagbama-Ekeremor Road in Bayelsa West senatorial district. Gov. Diri inspected the 42-kilometre road project from Toru-Orua to Ekeremor, told…
