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Bayelsa guber: I’m willing to work with Lyon, Maciver, others — APC candidate, Sylva
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2023 Governorship Election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has expressed willingness to...
APC moves to drag Speaker, INEC to court over contempt
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to drag the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Abraham Ngobere, to court...
Man 37, beheaded by suspected ritualist
Suspected ritualists on Wednesday at the wee hours beheaded a 37 years old Man, Anthony Egbo, by the gate of the Living Faith...
Man kills sister’s friend over N50,000, buries corpse in room
RESIDENTS of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital where shocked to their marrow, when the news broke that a young man, Joseph...
I’m not ritualist, I choked her to death out of fear – Suspected killer
A 27-year-old male, Joseph Fekala, confessed to choking a lady during their argument that led to her death in his apartment in...
27-year-old man kills, buries girlfriend in bedroom
A 27-year-old man, Joseph Fekala, has gruesomely murdered his girlfriend, one Kate Ogwoh, 26, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Fekala, said...
Hunters return 315 PVCs discovered in forest to INEC
The Bayelsa Independent National Electoral Commission has received 315 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), six Temporary Voters Cards...
Police arrest notorious armed robbery suspect on wanted list
Operatives of the Anti-kidnapping unit, Bayelsa State Command, said it has arrested a notorious armed robbery suspect who is on the wanted...
LG bosses, councillors to get severance pay
The Bayelsa State Government has said that elected local government council chairmen and councillors currently serving in the state would be...
Another top PDP chieftain dumps party
Barely 24 hours after the Brass Local Government Chairman, Hon Victor Isaiah, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), another chieftain of...
Drama as Bayelsa assembly rejects Diri’s commissioner-nominee
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has rejected the nomination of a former Commissioner for Transport, Grace Ekiotenne, by Governor Douye Diri to serve as...
Pregnant woman, NYSC member, five others missing as boat capsizes
A pregnant woman, one female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, a 70-year -old chief, have been confirmed among the passengers who lost...
One killed, soldier injured as gunmen attack military checkpoint
One person has been reportedly shot dead and a military personnel injured following an early morning attack on a Military checkpoint in Ogboinbiri...
Police officer slumps, dies on duty in Bayelsa
The Police Command in Bayelsa State has mourned the sudden death of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Asufi. Sources at the police headquarters in...
2023 election: Group raises alarm over alleged plot to destabilise PDP
A Social-Political Group in the Niger Delta, Apostles of Good Governance (AGG), has raised an alarm over alleged plots by some desperate politicians within the incumbent...
Police arrest Bayelsa woman for burning stepdaughter’s bum with hot knife
Nationnewslead reports that The police in Bayelsa State have arrested a woman, identified as Esther Otoniye, for allegedly using a hot knife to inflict...
Police drag Gov’s aide to court over alleged N2.5m dud cheque
The Bayelsa State Police Command has dragged the Special Representative of the Bayelsa State Governor in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the State, Obuma...
Petrol scarcity: Govt approves N230 per litre
The Bayelsa State Government has directed that no filling station should sell petrol above N230 per litre. Though the national price is N165, the...
Bayelsa varsity lecturers threaten strike over poor funding, welfare
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Niger Delta University (NDU) Chapter, has threatened to resume the strike they suspended six years ago...
