Tag: Bayelsa
Police recover woman’s decomposing body from gutter in Bayelsa
The Bayelsa State Police Command says it has commenced an investigation into the death of a mother of three whose decomposing body was dumped...
Jonathan: I’d have relocated my mother to Abuja if Diri wasn’t...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he would have relocated his mother to Abuja, the nation’s capital, if Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri, had lost...
Guber polls: IGP orders probe of recorded incidences
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has directed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department to commence...
Diri floors APC’s Sylva, re-elected as Bayelsa governor
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Duoye Diri and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of...
Naval officers raid sea robbers’ hideout in Bayelsa, recover weapons
The officers of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) SOROH at Naval Base in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, have raided a suspected sea robbers’...
Bayelsa poll: Protest at INEC office over ‘doctored’ results in Nembe...
Some residents, including women, youths, and state and National Assembly members have commenced a protest at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Guber elections: EFCC arrests 14 vote buyers, recovers N11m
The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested no fewer than 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in...
Bayelsa guber: INEC official kidnapped, result sheets lost in boat mishap
Gunmen have abducted the Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) assigned to Registration Area – 06 (Ossioma) in Sagbama...
INEC deploys 6 National Commissioners, 27 RECs in Imo, Kogi, Bayelsa
To ensure hitch-free conduct of governorship elections on Saturday, November 11 in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has...
Guber poll: Gov Diri’s N100m tears Bayelsa LP apart
Barely 24 hours to the governorship election in in Bayelsa State, crisis has hit the Labour Party (LP) over largesse of Governor Douye Diri.
Some...
