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Bayelsa Govt, Security Operatives Intercept Two Bus-Loads of Almajiris

The Bayelsa State Government and security operatives on Sunday intercepted and sent back two more buses carrying no fewer than seventeen Quoranic education pupils known as ‘Almajiri’ at the Glory Land, entry point into Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Chief Freston Akpor, permanent secretary of the State Ministry of Information …

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Diri appoints Oredipe, Aide on Social Media

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has appointed Mr. Kola Oredipe, manager, News and Current Affairs, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), as his coordinator, Social Media.  His appointment is in the rank of a special adviser. Mr. Oredipe, a versatile reporter, has traversed the length and breadth of the …

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COVID-19: Group Hails Mpigi’s Magnanimity

… ‘Blasts’ Detractors A sociopolitical group, Niger Delta Action Network (NDAN), Andoni Chapter, has commended the senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Barry Mpigi, for donating handsomely to the people of his constituency on the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Niger Delta Action Network in a joint statement …

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Sea Pirates Attack Covid-19 Sensitization Officer in Bayelsa

The rising incidence of sea piracy along the Akassa-Brass-Yenagoa route in Bayelsa State is giving commuters cause for concern. The latest attack took place over the weekend with one health worker returning from a Coronavirus sensitization campaign in Brass Local Government Area injured. The Akassa-Brass-Nembe-Yenagoa sea routes are often hotbed …

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Ex-Bayelsa Commissioner Urges NOSDRA to Probe Pollution of Coastline

Mr Iniruo Wills, ex-Environment commissioner in Bayelsa State on Thursday called on oil industry regulators to priorities investigation of increased toxicity of Atlantic coastline causing massive death of fishes. Wills made the call in an interview in Yenagoa in a reaction to dead fishes littering the coastline across Delta, Bayelsa …

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Bayelsa Deputy Governor, Ewhrudjakpo, Mourns Okoko

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has commiserated with the Okoko family of Obunagha community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area over the sudden demise of their son, Mr Keniebi Okoko. According to a press release by the senior special assistant on media to the deputy …

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