Polls: Jonathan casts vote in Bayelsa, condemns electoral violence
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the decision on the next set of political office holders should be the prerogative of Nigerians through the democratic process and not a decision to be made by the judicial system.
It took 500 yrs, but Bayelsa riverine community now has road
RESIDENTS of Igbedi community, a fishing and farming settlement on the bank of the Igbedi Creek, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, are overjoyed as the link road to the area is about 90 per cent completed.
DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN: Sand miners endanger bridge connecting Bayelsa communities
EKPETIAMA-TOMBIA Bridge, which links communities at Ekpetiama bloc in Yenagoa Local Government Area; the university town of Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Council; Igbedi, Kolokuma-Opokuma, Ogobiri in Sagbama area and Bayelsa International Airport is now exposed to rampaging erosion, following illegal dredging activities of sand miners on the Nun River.
2023: Group tasks Diri on existing rotation agreement in Bayelsa West
By Emem Idio – Yenogoa A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, group in Bayelsa State, styled Bayelsa West Patriotic Front, BWPF, has called Governor Douye Diri of the state to remain committed and be resolute to the existing agreement on rotation in Bayelsa West senatorial district made up of Ekeremor and Sagbama local government areas. According […]
Why Bayelsa is still backward 26 years after creation – Kpodoh, Bayelsa APC chieftain
By Emem Idio – Yenagoa A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Chief Richard Kpodoh, has accused successive governors and leaders of the state of abandoning the development plan drawn by experts after creation of Bayelsa in 1996. Kpodoh, a former security Adviser of the state, said after the creation […]
Soot pollution in Rivers, Bayelsa: All hands must be on deck
Reminiscent of the George Floyd saga, the people of Rivers State are finding it difficult to breathe due to the environmental challenge of soot scientifically known as black carbon. Floyd, it must be recalled, choked to death when he was pinned beneath three police officers who were trying to arrest him in Minnesota, United States […]
