Fierce violent clashes among the ranks of the Peoples Democratic Party marred the screening of 97 chairmanship aspirants for the local government election in Bayelsa State on Wednesday. The clash took place just as Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State tasked the Nigeria Police and the State Security Service to conduct detailed checks on […]
A National coordinator of the Ijaw Youth Leadership Forum, Mr. Kime Engozu, has urged President Olusegun Obasanjo to visit the town of Odi which was destroyed in a military invasion ordered by him in November 1999. The former President endorsed the military invasion of Odi following the attack and killing of some security operatives by […]
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has disputed the claim by President Goodluck Jonathan in his Sunday’s presidential chat that the military operation in Odi, Bayelsa State in 1999 failed to stop the killings of security agents in the Niger Delta. Fani-Kayode said in a statement on Monday that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ordered […]
17 Comments Former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva | credits: The house of the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timpre Sylva, has been burgled by unknown persons. Our correspondent gathered that suspected thieves stormed the mansion, which is adjacent to Okpoama Beach in Brass Local Government Area of the state, on Monday night. They were […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has denied any involvement in a boundary dispute between Rivers and Bayelsa states. The presidency, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, in Abuja, on Tuesday, said those behind a protest in Abuja, where Jonathan was accused of orchestrating plans to cede five Rivers State oil communities to Bayelsa State, were […]
Two choice property said to belong to the former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, have been uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which is currently in court with the suspect over a case of corrupt enrichment while in office. A competent source in the commission told Saturday Vanguard last night that the […]
By Samuel Oyadongha Operatives of the Joint Task Force JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday, invaded the Igbomotoru mangrove swamp in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State, destroying about thirty illegal refinery camps. The soldiers backed by three gunboats and two water crafts, according to community sources, stormed […]
A rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has asked the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, SAN, to commence steps to recover $401,931 forfeited in the United States by former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha. The US Department of Justice had on June 28, 2012, obtained a forfeiture judgment over the […]
By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa He never believed he would come out alive from the hands of his captors who whisked him away from the comfort of his palace at mainland Ikarama in the old Yenagoa council area. But he was dumped far away in the mangrove swamp on the Atlantic fringe of Bayelsa State. For […]
Yenagoa – The current administration is determined to secure a brighter future for the Nigerian youths through massive investment in the education sector, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday in Yenagoa. Jonathan, while addressing 550 beneficiaries of the Bayelsa government scholarship, said the federal government would discharge its responsibility of empowering the youths. Jonathan had […]
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