The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday asked the outgoing Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State to “render account of monies spent during his two terms in office.”

The Bayelsa State Police Command yesterday confirmed the abduction of three female students of the state College of Health Technology, Otuogidi in Ogbia Local Government Area by unknown gunmen.

Governor Seriake Dickson has described the office of state chief executive as a glorified prison where rules of officialdom restrict certain interactions.

“It is inconceivable for the Police authorities to claim that fake policemen perpetrated the shocking subversion of the will of the Bayelsa people in the charade called governorship election in Bayelsa State.”

Following the conduct and outcome of the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, a former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, and some youths in the north said the country’s democracy...

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, yesterday blamed the violence reported during last Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States on persons he described as fake policemen.

Bookmakers were, yesterday, proven right, when shootings, widespread violence and electoral malpractice took centre stage as Bayelsa and Kogi states went to the polls to elect new governors, and a senator.

Some communities in Bayelsa State were yet to commence voting in the state governorship election as at 1:00 pm on Saturday. Our correspondent observed that while voters arrived at the polling units early to cast their ballots, voting materials were not available yet. At Edepie Community Primary School, materials arrived 15 minutes before 12 noon,…

The Police Command in Bayelsa, has assured of its readiness to provide adequate security during Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

One person was feared killed yesterday in Nembe Ogbolomabiri in Nembe Local Council of Bayelsa State as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign rally...

Two days to this weekend’s governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi, the United States has made it clear that it expects nothing less than a free, fair, transparent and peaceful exercise.

Bayelsa state is only three years older than the last (Fourth) Republic of the Nigerian state that began in 1999 running till date.