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Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, tactically avoided the Bayelsa State delegation, led by Governor Seriake Dickson, who came to rejoice with the President on his 57th birthday in Abuja on Thursday. No member of the National Assembly from the state was also on the delegation. There has been no love lost between the governor […]
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Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
There is a strong indication that the rift between the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, and Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has deepened. It was learnt that Bayelsa senators and members of the House of Representatives at the National Assembly had allegedly joined forces with the First Lady against Dickson. The federal legislators, it […]
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Aviation, Bayelsa, Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Five domestic airports will be constructed in the capital cities of Bayelsa, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa and Ogun states, the Federal Government has said. The government said the plan to construct airports in Yenegoa, Brini Kebbi, Lokoja, Lafia and Abeokuta was to ensure easy movement of passengers and cargoes across the states. The Minister of Aviation, […]
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Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 11th, 2014
Nigerian Legion | credits: http://1.bp.blogspot.com The Bayelsa State chapter of the Nigerian Legion has asked the Federal Government to allow them to assist in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in the country. The Chairman of the Nigerian Legion in the state, Igirigi Effiong, said this in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Saturday […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 11th, 2014
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Bayelsa State Command, has declared the creeks of the state unsafe for those involved in illegal oil bunkering and refining activities. The State Commandant, NSCDC, Mr. Desmond Agu, made the declaration during his monthly briefing of officers and men of the command. He said the NSCDC, working in […]
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Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
Yenagoa— Traditional rulers in Bayelsa State have called on members of the Boko Haram sect to sheathe their swords and embrace amnesty like the former militants of the Niger Delta region did. The royal fathers, under the aegis of EA/EJA Oil Field Traditional Rulers Leadership Forum made the call in Yenagoa after a meeting with […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Gunmen, Tuesday morning,kidnapped Senator Emmanuel Paulker’s 90-year old mother. The abduction took place at her residence at the Opolo suburb of Yenagoa. Details later.wp_posts
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 28th, 2014
By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA — Unknown armed men have kidnapped the 86-year-old uncle of Chief Timipre Sylva, the immediate past governor of Bayelsa State. The victim, identified as Chief Benson Ayerite Adigio-Eseni, a retired army major, it was learnt, was seized in the wee hours of yesterday in his country home at Okpoama, Brass Local […]
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Bayelsa, State News
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
hough Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, is yet to make public his intension to seek a second term, many see his administration’s decision to rebury the late Ijaw nationalist, Major Isaac Boro, in Yenagoa, as a precursor to a declaration, writes SIMON UTEBOR The reburial of the exhumed remains of Niger Delta icon, Isaac Adaka […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
Jonathan, Alamieyesiegha, Dickson and Sylva | credits: File copy No governor in the history of Bayelsa State has completed a second term in office. In this piece, SIMON UTEBOR examines political intrigues in the state The oil-rich Bayelsa State, carved out of old Rivers State in 1996 by the Sani Abacha military junta, has a […]
