Tag: Bayelsa
Bayelsa seals Winners Chapel, 5 others for breaching COVID-19 protocols
Bayelsa State Government has sealed six churches in the state for breaching “operational protocols” required to conduct services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state government...
Governor Diri lifts ban on burials in Bayelsa
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has lifted the embargo on funerals with stringent coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols as a measure to decongest mortuaries in the...
Abductor of Bayelsa teenager, Ese Oruru, jailed 26 years
A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has sentenced Yinusa Dahiru, who abducted a teenager, Ese Oruru, to 26 years imprisonment.
Justice Jane Inyang...
Bayelsa confirms 4 new coronavirus cases as members of same family
Bayelsa State Government has said that four household relatives of a coronavirus index case in the state have tested positive for the virus, bringing...
Diri meets Buhari first time since inauguration
President Muhammadu Buhari met Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja for the first time since the governor’s inauguration...
Court affirms Diri as PDP’s valid governorship candidate in Bayelsa
A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has
affirmed Douye Diri as the valid governorship candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa.
Justice Tijani...
Adeboye told me I’d be declared Bayelsa governor – Diri
Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri, has revealed that he paid a visit to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG),...
NYSC member drowns 12 days to passing-out in Bayelsa
A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in
Bayelsa has drowned just 12 days to the end of his service year.
Oluwafemi Mark, 28,...
Bayelsa assembly grants Diri’s request for N2.9bn car loan
Bayelsa State House of Assembly has sanctioned
a request from Governor Douye Diri to obtain a loan of N2.9 billion for
official vehicles.
The loan will...
Bayelsa CP denies sending hoodlums to Dickson’s house
Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa State, Uche Anozia,
says he did not send hoodlums to the home of former Governor Seriake Dickson.
Mr Dickson had accused...