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Former Commissioner for Investment, Trade and Industry, Ayekeme Masa, in Bayelsa state has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Yenagoa, the state capital. He died at the Federal Medical Centre Yenagoa where he was rushed to. The late Masa, who served in the first tenure of Governor...

A policeman identified as Corporal David Napoleon has shot a teenager, Tomizibe Johnson, to death in Bayelsa State. The incident reportedly occurred at 10pm on Thursday at Kpansia area of Yenagoa metropolis. Napoleon, attached to the Department of Operations at the state Police Command, was...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned houses seized during the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan in 2013 to Timipre Sylva, the former governor of Bayelsa State. The EFCC seized 48 choice property belonging to former Bayelsa State Governor, Mr...

A man has been arrested by the Bayelsa State Vigilante Network in Yenagoa for allegedly cooking and selling vultures disguised as chicken to the general public. Comrade Bunas Samuel in collaboration with his vigilante team, arrested the man at the popular Tombia market slaughter house and...

According to a report from Sahara Reporters, several gunmen suspected to be Niger Delta militants on Monday attacked and killed four soldiers and a civilian in Ekeremor LGA of Bayelsa State. It's said that the militants laid an ambush for the soldiers along the Letugbene waterways before...

Samuel Collins, a 30-year-old corps member has been murdered by unknown gunmen believed to be armed robbers in Bayelsa state. The Police Public Relations Officer at the Bayelsa Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Sunday in Yenagoa...

Acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has declared that Bayelsa State is part of Biafra. Kanu made the declaration when he received some supporters of IPOB who are of Bayelsa decent in his hometown of Isama Ofara, in Ambra State. Addressing the visitors...

Sagbama Police Station, Sagbama, Bayelsa State, was struck by tragedy on Sunday after gunmen shot and killed a police sergeant on guard duty in the front of the station. It was learnt that the incident, which occurred about 8.30pm on Sunday, threw the police station into confusion. The...

A serving Soldier and an engineer have been arrested by the Bayelsa Police Command for allegedly kidnapping a lady in Warri, Delta on April 4. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspects were paraded before journalists by the Bayelsa state police commissioner, Asuquo Amba, in...

The Nigerian Navy on Friday at Masunkiri in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa, arrested four suspected sea pirates in the ongoing operations in the Niger Delta, code named, Exercise Eagle Eye. Exercise Eagle Eye, launched on Thursday in Warri is the annual sea inspection operation by...

The Bayelsa state election tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by APC's Timimpre Sylva challenging the victory of Seriake Dickson in the last governorship elections in the state. According to the three-man panel of the tribunal led by Justice Kazeem Alogba, Sylva and APC failed to prove...