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Bayelsa, Elections 2011, State News
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Fresh facts yesterday emerged on the circumstances that led to the death of Eight persons on Thursday along the Nembe waterways in Nembe Local Government Area of the State with indigenes of the area claiming the deceased were non-indigenes inported by some politicians to register in the area. The indigenes of the twin cities of […]
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Bayelsa, Rivers, State News
Friday, January 14th, 2011
The Action Congress of Nigeria on Friday declared the result of its governorship primaries in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, following the level of insecurity in Bayelsa State. The party had declared a former Commissioner for Housing, Chief Ayakeme Whisky, the winner of the governorship primaries, having defeated three other aspirants. Whisky, who […]
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Bayelsa, State News
Friday, January 7th, 2011
AN orgy of violence yesterday swept across Bayelsa State as six people were feared killed in a clash between rival political groups. Trouble started at Port Harcourt where young men suspected to be hoodlums waylaid the convoy of the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa, Timi Alaibe at the airport. The suspected hoodlums reportedly […]
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) at an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, shared $1billion from the Excess Crude Account. With the disbursement of the amount, the balance in the ECA account now stands at $3million. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted for only 29 minutes (11:10am and ended at about 11:39am). […]
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Bayelsa, Niger Delta, State News
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

EXPLOSIVES rocked the venue of a campaign rally of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Chief Beimor Rufus-Spiff, at Opolo, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday, but no life was lost. Party faithful that gathered at the venue scampered for safety as the explosives went off around 3.45 p.m. The explosives, Nigerian […]
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Bayelsa, National Politics
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Bayelsa State government has agreed to labour demand for N30, 000 Christmas bonus for workers in its employ. The workers under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress had last week rejected the N15, 000 Christmas bonus offered by the state government. Labour had hinged its rejection of the offer […]
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Bayelsa, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

The Joint Task Force, Wednesday, said it had taken over ten ex militant camps in the creek of Bayelsa State just as the whereabouts of the kidnapped site engineer at Okpoama in the Brass council area of the state remained unknown. Nine of the camps, according to the JTF were razed down while the one […]
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Bayelsa, Niger Delta
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
ELEVEN suspected pipeline vandals, including a native doctor, were, on Monday, caught on the creeks of Bayelsa State, with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth thousands of naira. The suspects were arrested at two different locations; Igbomaturu and Nembe creeks in Southern Ijaw and Nembe local government areas of the state, by the operatives […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Joint (Military) Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta yesterday arrested 11 suspected pipeline vandals including a native doctor along the creeks of the Delta with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth several millions of naira. The suspects were arrested in two wooden boats popularly called “Pekpekpe” along the Igbomaturu creek in Southern […]