Asinim Butswat
1 May 2022
Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested three suspected kidnappers at their hideout in Biogbolo, a suburb of Yenagoa. The suspects were nabbed with live ammunition and a suspected stolen vehicle.
9 Mar 2022
There is palpable tension and outrage as angry youths of Opume community in Ogbia Council of Bayelsa took to the streets, blocking all roads to the town following the killing of a 39 years old woman..
24 Nov 2021
Following upsurge in armed robbery, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the state, the Bayelsa State Police Command and the State Security Council have re-imposed curfew in the state capital,...
27 Aug 2021
A middle-aged man, whose identity was given as Patrick Markson, has allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife with a sledge hammer in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
21 Apr 2021
A middle-aged woman ‘gospel preacher’ yesterday threw residents of Yenagoa into uproar as she suddenly went berserk and stabbed to death a 14-year-old boy, Joseph Thomas, after inflicting knife cuts on another.
6 Dec 2020
No fewer than five yet-to-be-identified personnel of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) reportedly drowned in a boat mishap on their way to Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State for the rescheduled Senatorial by-election, which took place, yesterday, in two senatorial districts.
8 Jan 2020
Bayelsa Police command has confirmed the arrest and detention of a police officer that shot three persons during a squabble with a commercial bus driver in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Monday evening.
10 Apr 2019
Graduate inspectors and other officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have pleaded with acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to re-recommend their list to the Police Service Commission (PSC) for upgrade to Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs).
14 Aug 2018
A 40-YEAR-OLD dismissed policeman yesterday committed suicide after allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl and five others. The policeman, who hailed from Cross River State and was Human Immune Virus (HIV) positive also infected his victims with the dreaded disease.
25 Dec 2017
An armed robber died from his partner’s bullet during a foiled robbery attack on one Francis Chibueze, along Bakery road, Azikoro village, Yenagoa.
17 May 2017
Police in Bayelsa said suspected assassins on Wednesday killed a former acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa, Mr Pamo Hobobo.
19 Apr 2017
Barely 24 hours after suspected assassins shot dead a journalist in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, unidentified hoodlums have killed a policeman at a drinking bar in the red light district of Hospital Road, Yenagoa.
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