Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has engaged the civil servants in Bayelsa State in the current war his administration is waging against corruption. This is just as he said the Senior Secondary Board, the Environmental Sanitation Authority, the Health services and the Local Government areas are places his administration would probe in its bid to smash the […]
More ex-gover-nors who allegedly looted public funds and laundered them in the United Kingdom, are in trouble, as the authorities there are buoyed by their success in the trial of a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to activate their files. Ibori was on April 17, sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for money […]
Fear has gripped former government appointees and public officials on governor Timipre Sylva’s administration over possible revocation of government houses sold during the administraion’s tenure. The Opolo Housing Estate, accommodating members of the State Executive Council (SEC), justices of the state judiciary and top government officials was sold to the occupants of the houses. Also, […]
THE proposed plan by the Bayelsa State governor, Honour-able Henry Dickson, to hold a “peace walk” in Yenagoa, the state capital, was, on Thursday, criticised by a group, under the aegis of the Bayelsa Democratic Front (BDF), which said the development may “precipitate chaos of unprecedented magnitude in the state.” The government said the event […]
NO fewer than 200 vehicles, belonging to the Bayelsa State government, had been allegedly taken away by political appointees, who served in the immediate past administration of Governor Timipre Sylva, Nigerian Tribune investigation has revealed. A credible source informed the Nigerian Tribune that most of the aides of the former governor failed to handover vehicles […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said he would not interfere with the administration of Bayelsa State and promised to allow Governor Seriake Dickson and his team use their initiatives in running the affairs of the state. The President spoke at the state congress of the Peoples Democratic Party which was held at the Peace Park, […]
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson on Thursday said he inherited an empty treasury from the Timipre Sylva administration. Dickson alleged that Sylva left “heavy and intimidating debt portfolios” for his administration to service. The governor, who spoke in the Banquet Hall, Yenagoa, during his maiden monthly press conference stated that the figure of the debt […]
Federal Government has approved the setting up of central military commands in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. THE PUNCH learnt that the nation’s service chiefs took the decision after assessing the economic importance of the state to the country and the rising activities of cultists and pirates. Also, there has been a resurgence of violence in the […]
March 13, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa Unidentified gunmen believed to be cultists attacked bars along Hospital Road Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Sunday night, killing at least three persons including a sex worker. THE PUNCH learnt that the bandits, who allegedly wore police bulletproof vests, stormed the relaxation spots about 9.30pm and opened fire on […]
Authorities of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield”, on Friday deployed local divers to retrieve the corpses of its officers, including a lieutenant colonel, who were shot dead on Thursday morning by suspected oil bunkerers, along Brass-Ogbia waterways, in Bayelsa State. Though, the identities of the slain officers […]
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