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Women lawyers in Bayelsa under the auspices of International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, has pledged to stand against any form of domestic violence against women and children in the society. The Chairperson of FIDA, Yenagoa branch......................... Read more via The Guardian...

The Bayelsa State Government got the sum of N12.949 Allocation from the Federation Account for the month of April. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a statement on Friday that the amount represented a drop of N775 million from the allocation for the … Read...

A Nigerian court has sentenced three men to be hanged, after they were convicted of kidnapping, robbery and assault at an Anglican Church. Justice Nayai Aganaba sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in Southern Nigeria’s Niger Delta region sentenced Austine Nimite, Dengiyefa Doupere and Korinnake...

Bayelsa State Government has reiterated its determination to flush out from the state’s bloated workforce, ghost workers as well as under-aged workers in the state public service. Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Kemela Okara, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, reiterated...

There was a tragedy in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, yesterday, after a mother and her two children were crushed to death by a car. The incident, which happened along the Isaac Boro expressway, was reportedly caused by the driver’s overspeeding and loss of control. The incident occurred at … Read...

There was confusion in Ekeki suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Saturday after fire gutted a neighbourhood, rendering 300 persons homeless. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the inferno, which occured at 2am, destroyed valuables worth millions of naira. The cause of the fire has...

Constituents, mainly students, from the Bayelsa East Senatorial District, have threatened to begin a process of recalling the Senator representing them in the National Assembly, Mr. Ben Bruce. The aggrieved constituents in a statement on Tuesday accused the common sense senator of neglecting...

Several riverine communities, including Oporoza and Ogulagha in Delta State, and Ezetu, Aggeh and others in Bayelsa State, have been struck by food and transportation crises following the ongoing Operation Crocodile Smile of the military in the region. Vanguard gathered that transporters...

Several Nigerian soldiers at their security posts in Nembe creek, Bayelsa State have been gunned down by militants who dressed up as priests, Reuters reports. Reports say the militants ambushed the officers, disguising as part of a group returning from a burial ceremony. It's believed that...

Mr. Adeyinka Sodipo is the new Commissioner of Police that has been posted to the Bayelsa State Police Command, the PUNCH reports. Sodipo takes over from Mr. Peter Ogunyanwo, who has been redeployed to Police Force Headquarters, Abuja. In a statement by the command’s spokesman, Asinim...

The Bayelsa State Government has a approved a 30 per cent reduction in the salaries of all political appointees in the State, the state Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite has said. The decision was reached at the inauguration meeting of the State Executive...