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The concluding part of the of the Bayelsa Gubernatorial elections is tomorrow. The elections will hold in 17 wards & 104 communities in Southern Ijaw tomorrow. They are: WARD 1 Southern Ijaw Oporoma I Wenike Community Hall PU 001 Koluama Community Square PU 002 Ogboinbiri Community Square...

The tension brewing currently in Bayelsa State is getting more palpable as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has raised the alarm over the illegal deployment of 1,000 mobile policemen to Ekeremor LGA by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, as part...

Five persons were arrested yesterday in Bayelsa State for reportedly planning to attack the house of former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan in Yenagoa. The suspects were arrested in a hotel in Swali area of Yenagoa while they were planning to unleash an attack on the former President’s...

Seriake Dickson, governor of Bayelsa state, on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari was stoned in 2011 when he visited the state as the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) during Timipre Sylva's tenure as the governor. Addressing a press conference in Yenagoa...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has assured Nigerians that he is working to ensure that future elections are conclusive. He gave the assurance yesterday while speaking at the 11th Public Lecture of The Electoral Institute (TEI) with the topic...

Efforts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari may have been rebuffed. A source in the Presidency stated that Buhari was not happy with the APC in Bayelsa and Sylva over alleged...

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) yesterday said last Saturday’s Bayelsa State governorship election was badly conducted and that it would not pass credibility test. But the election monitoring umpire hailed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for cancelling the rescheduled...

Nigerians are beginning to react to the cancellation of Ijaw Southern election thereby declaration Bayelsa poll inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission. These are some of their comments:

Thousand of protesters have stormed the INEC collation centre in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa demonstrating the outcome of the on-going governorship election and also called for the cancellation of the election. See photos:

Preliminary results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday showed that Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is leading in the 6 of the eight Local Government Areas (LGAs). Presently INEC Collation officer and party agets are...

Timipre Sylva is the Bayelsa state governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Having ruled the state before as a governor, Silva is at the verge again to contest the mantle of leadership with his keen opponent from the PDP, Seriake Dickson, who is also the incument governor...

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Governor of Lagos state, Senator Bola Tinubu has arrived Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa for the final rally of the All Progressives Party in the state ahead of Saturday, December 5 governorship election. He met with the party's...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa has said that more than 8, 000 Ad-hoc staff would be engaged in the Dec. 5 governorship election in the state. Mr Baritor Kpagih, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, stated this in an interview in Yenagoa on Saturday...

Governorship candidates of the All Progressive Grand Alliance and nine other political parties in Bayelsa State have thrown their weight behind the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Timipre Sylva for the December Gubernatorial election. The candidates of the 10 parties led by...

As the race for the governoship elections in Bayelsa state gets hotter, a group under the auspice of Buhari Network of Friends (BNF) has stated that it will mobilise 600 of its members to support the candidacy of Governor Serikake Dickson for his second term bid. The group leaders, Chris Otobo...

Less than one month to the December 5th Gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa State, aspirants from various political parties have converged to sign a peace accord, to ensure peaceful and credible poll, ChannelsTV reports. The signing of the peace pact which was initiated by the Independent...

The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for disclosing the economic status of the country and urged the Bayelsa people to brace up to the harsh financial situation facing the state. He said this at a meeting with the new Special Advisers at the...

The Movement for the Actualisation of Egalitarian Society (MAES) has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Bayelsa State governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva are already planning to destabilise the state to avoid defeat in the December governorship poll. A statement...