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By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa In furtherance of its principle to promote transparency and accountability in governance, the Bayelsa State government said it received N1.2 billion as internally generated revenue for the month of March 2020. The figure is one of the highest raked in by the state in the last …

… As Covid 19 Task Force Demolish GSM Phone Market By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Traders at the popular Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communication Village, at Tombia Roundabout in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, have lamented the demolition of their stalls and loss of goods worth billions of naira. They …

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 …

Bayelsa State Government has expressed concern over the decline in revenue from the Federation Account arising from the global COVID-19 crisis, saying the economy of states in the country would soon be grounded. The technical adviser on Finance to the governor, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, a former commissioner of Finance, raised …