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Bayelsa, EFCC Politics, General Politics, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
FROM GODWIN TSA, Abuja There was drama yesterday at the Abuja division of the Federal High Court as former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva frustrated attempts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to re-arraign him and six others on a 42-count amended charge bordering on fraudulent transactions and money laundering to the […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Bayelsa, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva There are strong indications that a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva and his loyalists in the New Peoples Democratic Party, have finally dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress. Sylva, who was denied a second term ticket by the PDP, […]
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Bayelsa, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Rivers, State News
Friday, November 1st, 2013
THERE were indications that President Goodluck Jonathan, the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and his Bayelsa State counterpart, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Thursday had a closed-door meeting in Rivers State. The venue and agenda of the meeting were not clear as at the time of sending this report. However, sources said the ongoing feud […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Thursday, October 31st, 2013
Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson | credits: transformationwatch.com Bayelsa State Government on Wednesday demolished a one-storey private building owned by Governor Seriake Dickson because it obstructed the Right-of-Way as well as intruding on the state Capital City Master Plan. . The demolished building, which had been marked by the Capital City Development Authority […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, yesterday, upheld its earlier decision ordering the Federal Government to pay the people of Odi community in Bayelsa State the sum of N37.6 billion as general damages over its invasion by soldiers during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. Ruling on an application brought by […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Saturday, September 7th, 2013
A mid-night inferno has rendered homeless more than 400 residents of Hausa/Fulani Community, a suburb around the Aretallin area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Scores of residential apartments, including permanent structures, batchers and make-shift houses were completely destroyed, while property estimated to cost millions of Naira were also consumed in the inferno. Some elders […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
The police in Bayelsa State on Thursday arrested a 36-year-old man for allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl to death. It was learnt that the suspect, whose name was not disclosed, is an aide of a former Chairman, Community Development Committee, Ogbia Local Government Area of the state. Though the police said they were waiting for […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
The Chairman of the PeoplesDemocratic Party National Reconciliation Committee, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday said it would be wrong to accuse the party of being a religious or a regional party. He said it was only the PDP that had the capacity to produce a president, which he said it did in 1999, even when […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Eighteen-year-old Anna Banner beats 31 other beautiful dreamers at the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, writes AKEEM LASISI Biblically speaking, many roundly beautiful girls were called. But only one was chosen. That lucky bird is 18-year-old Anna Banner, who was, on Saturday night, crowned the Most Beautiful Girl in […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
y Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Bayelsa State chapter, yesterday, urged Governor Seriake Dickson to reconsider his request to the state House of Assembly for permission to go on annual leave. It insisted that if such permission was granted, it would make mockery of the seriousness of the state’s preparation to tackle […]
