The Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on Saturday says the boost in crude Nigeria’s oil production to about 25 million barrels per day is due to improvements in security in the Niger Delta region in the past two years. The oil firm applauded the Joint military force deployed to... Read more
A Community advocacy group, in Bayelsa Ondewari Health, Education and Environmental Project (OHEEP) on Tuesday condemned continued detention of Publisher of a community newspaper. OHEEP has sent a petition to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) over the alleged arrest and continued detention of Chief. Jones... Read more
Saviour Enoch, an undergraduate of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, was shot dead by suspected cultists in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. His family has urged security agencies in the state to fish the killers and bring them to justice. Mr Ovieakini Enoch, the deceased’s uncle, made... Read more
Ijaw stakeholders under the aegis of Ijaw Nation Forum (INF), an online social mobilisation platform for the Ijaws, have queried Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa over the controversial allocation of a grazing land in Yenagoa measuring about 1200 hectares to cattle herdsmen. In an open letter addressed... Read more
Niger Delta youth leaders have urged the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to implement the palliatives pledged by Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo during his tour to the region.. The youths made the call when the leadership of the Niger Delta Ex-Agitation Forum and Niger Delta Non... Read more
Radio Bayelsa GM on N2.5 m ‘tackles station’s accountant for recovering staff loan deductions from advert revenue
News July 16, 2017
The General Manager of Radio Bayelsa Mr John Idumange has raised alarm over the disappearance of N2.5 million revenue accruing from outside broadcast of the station. Idumange who withheld N1.7 million loan repayments to a commercial bank said on Friday that he had submitted a written petition... Read more
The gang of kidnappers who abducted Mrs. Edith Moron, the wife of the Principal of Gbanrainowei Grammar School, Okolobiri, Bayelsa have demanded a ransom of N3 million to free her. Mr. Moron Pereowei who confirmed the kidnap of his wife said that the abductors of his wife had... Read more
The Bayelsa chapter of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) on Thursday clarified the level of indebtedness of local government workers in the state. The clarification came on the report released by the national headquarters of NULG which listed Bayelsa as the most indebted of 23 states... Read more
Mr Kenedy Tonjo-West, a Niger Delta youth leader has urged youths in Brass Local Government Area (LGA) of Bayelsa to promote peace to sustain investors interest in the coastal settlement. . Tonjo-West, who is also a Senior Special Assistant to Bayelsa Governor on Niger Delta Youth Matters made... Read more
Yet-t0-be identified gunmen shot and killed a police sergeant on guard duty in the front of the station even as the slain policeman was left to his fate by his colleagues who ran for cover. Asinim Butswat, a DSP, Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command who... Read more
