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Bayelsa, General Politics, Oil Politics, State News, Top Stories
Friday, August 19th, 2011
THOUSANDS have fled the Ikarama community, Bayelsa state following an inferno triggered by an oil spill from a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) pipeline. No fewer than 100 houses were also burnt by the fire, which has compounded the problems arising from the spill. Saturday Tribune gathered that the damage could have been worse, but […]
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Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Headlines, Kogi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto, State News
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Ahead of Wednesday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a web of intrigues has entangled the party as it prepares to take a definite stance on the propriety or otherwise of fresh governorship primaries in five states under its control where governorship election will be conducted between December this […]
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Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Yenagoa – About 45 students of Bayelsa State origin evacuated from the University of Maiduguri, Borno, Wednesday, narrated their ordeals in the troubled city. The traumatised students lamented that days after being evacuated by the Bayelsa State Government, they still hear bomb explosions and sounds of gunfire in their sleep. The students, who were evacuated […]
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Bayelsa, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The police in Bayelsa State have arrested twelve persons suspected to be pirates allegedly involved in the attack on a marine police team along the state waterways in which two officers lost their lives. The state command however denied the alleged loss of five service rifles to the suspected pirates during the Monday morning attack […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Governor Timipre Sylva has denied hiding the leader of the Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF), John Togo, in Bayelsa State Government House. Sylva was reacting, through a statement ‘Sylva not hiding John Togo’ signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Doifie Ola, to claims by the Camp Administrator of Obubra Amnesty Camp, Mr. Ekpein Appah […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Tears flowed freely yesterday during the open air service for Stephen Oluwasegun Aremu, one of the corps members who died in a boat mishap along the Nembe/Brass waterways. Aremu, from Kwara State and Adamu Isaiah Barau from Bauchi State were among the victims who died in the boat mishap involving a 20-passenger boat. Two female […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
There was tension in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Friday, following a plot by the lawmakers to remove the Chairman of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Chief Ebikintin Dioongoli. Our correspondent gathered that the call divided members of the house and almost led to a breakdown of legislative proceedings. It was gathered that […]
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Bayelsa, INEC Politics, State News
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Indications emerged on Saturday that 36 ad-hoc employees of the Independent National Electoral Commission sent to conduct a rerun election in Ekeremor III State Constituency, Bayelsa State, escaped being killed. Some of the workers who were on duty for the rescheduled election that took place on April 28 were reportedly bathed with fuel at […]
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Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi, Elections 2011, Enugu, Imo, Katsina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, Oyo, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
• Niger, Nasarawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Oyo, Ogun affected • Imo dicey-Low voter turnout in several states • Police detonate bomb near INEC office in Delta Early results trickling in from different zones indicate that the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are making serious inroads into erstwhile Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled […]
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Bayelsa, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Bayelsa State Police Command has deployed gun boats in flash points in the state to forestall violence in the State House of Assembly elections. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba, made this disclosure while parading seven suspects, who were arrested with arms and ammunition in Yenagoa, the state capital. He explained that the […]
