Yenagoa
4 Sep 2019
Mr David Lyon of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has emerged the winner of the just concluded primary in Bayelsa. He scored 42,138 votes to win its closet rival, Mrs. Diseye Nsirim, who scored 1,533 votes.
13 Jun 2019
No fewer than five suspected cultists have been killed in renewed cult clashes in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in what observers described as a week of blood, violence, sorrow and tears. While the suspects beheaded two young men following a battle of supremacy between the Greenlanders and Debam, also known as Bobos, three other persons were…
12 May 2019
Dr. Bokolo Bonsome is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Regenix Healthcare Services Limited with head office in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. In this interview with ENIOLA DANIEL, he spoke about the future of health insurance in the country and brain drain in the health sector, among others. Health insurance in Nigeria looks like a scam,…
10 May 2019
Former militant leaders have vowed to resist further protests against Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Professor Nelson Brambaifa and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Professor Charles Dokubo. The ex-militant leaders who convened at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State yesterday, also condemned calls for Dokubo’s sack. Spokesman of the group, Kalaiti…
1 May 2019
Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has reiterated the resolve of his administration to pay the N30,000 new minimum Wage to the civil servants. Dickson gave the assurance during the 2019 Worker’s Day Celebration at the Peace Park on Wednesday in Yenagoa. He urged civil servants in the state to exercise patience while the state government…
10 Apr 2019
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has presented 80 business opportunities that worth $100billion for operators in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. Speaking at the recently concluded 2nd Nigerian Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair (NOGOF) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, the Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Simbi Kesiye Wabote, said the Board had identified over…
10 Apr 2019
Dangote Refinery, currently under construction has been described as a project that would assist Nigeria’s quest of attaining 1.095 million barrels per day self-sufficiency in the refining of petroleum products. Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Bello Rabiu, disclosed this at the just concluded Nigeria Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair (NOGOF) in…
8 Apr 2019
New Commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF) codenamed Operation Delta Safe Rear Admiral Akinjide Akinriade, yesterday said the task force in the Niger Delta will have no mercy for oil thieves and other criminals in the region. Speaking during the hand over ceremony at the OPDS headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Akinrinade, who took…
5 Apr 2019
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has denied knowledge of reports that oil giant, ExxonMobil, “is set to leave Nigeria.” The minister spoke with correspondents yesterday during the opening of 2019 Nigeria Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, hosted by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). Kachikwu…
24 Mar 2019
The Sagbama branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the brutal murder of two National Youth Service Corp members posted to Bayelsa State, by suspected cultists/armed robbers. A statement, yesterday, in Yenagoa, signed by its chairman, Dise Sheila Ogbise, called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other relevant security agencies to…
22 Mar 2019
The Bayelsa government on Friday said it would work assiduously with security agencies to ensure that killers of the members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were brought to book. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that suspected cultists on Wednesday night attacked residence of some corps members in Yenagoa, killing two and…
25 Feb 2019
An attempt to snatch and swap results sheets of the Presidential and National Assembly elections has claimed the life of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) personnel in Rivers State. The Guardian learnt that men in Army uniform stormed the collation centre at Buguma and snatched the result sheets. In their bid to escape from the…
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