Eight persons including a mobile policeman were reportedly arrested at Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa State over their alleged involvement in acts inimical to the electoral process. This is just as six suspected thugs were Tuesday arrested at Opokuma in the Okolokuma-Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa State following a botched […]
Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced. Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]
The Court of Appeal Friday upheld the verdict of a Federal High Court barring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting governorship election in Kogi, Cross River, Sokoto, Adamawa and Bayelsa next week. The appellate court which dismissed the consolidated appeal lodged before it by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as substantially lacking […]
Unidentified youths were said to have laid an ambush for the supervisors of the Independent National Electoral Commission dispossessing them of the voting materials meant for the National Assembly elections in Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State on Saturday. There were also reports of snatching of electoral materials in Adagbabiri and Odoni, Sagbama Local […]
Security agents have begun a manhunt for those behind the bomb explosion that rocked Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Tuesday. The explosion had triggered fears among of the opposition parties ahead the rescheduled National Assembly elections on Saturday. The blast suspected to be from a dynamite, was thrown into the premises of Latik Hotel […]
Seven persons were feared dead following clashes between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and rival Labour Party (LP) in Bayelsa State on Monday. The clash took place in Nembe, the home town of Governor Timipre Sylva. The clash came four days to the Senatorial and House of Representatives elections scheduled for Saturday. THISDAY […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State is to use helicopters to airlift election materials in the state in the coming electioins. It has also acquired 18 speedboats to aid it in moving men and materials. The State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Engr. Edwin Nwatalari told political stakeholders at a meeting in Yenagoa that […]
DETACHMENTS of mobile policemen from neighbouring states have been deployed in Bayelsa State ahead of today’s visit of President Goodluck Jonathan, for his political rally slated for the Samson Siasia Sports Complex, Yenagoa, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) started arriving in the state on […]
Barely 24 hours after the Court of Appeal ordered the re-instatement of impeached Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Peremobowei Ebebi, the State House of Assembly has returned to the court seeking stay of execution of the order. This is because the lawmakers have headed for the Supreme Court to appeal against the re-instatement order. […]
THE Appeal Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has reinstated the impeached Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Peremobowei Ebebi. Counsel to the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Sebastine Hon (SAN), who confirmed the reinstatement, said his client would appeal against the judgment and ask for a stay of execution. In the lead judgment delivered yesterday […]
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