Tag: Bayelsa

  • 2023 rainy season: Edo, Delta, Bayelsa express readiness to mitigate flooding

    2023 rainy season: Edo, Delta, Bayelsa express readiness to mitigate flooding

    The governments of Edo, Delta and Bayelsa, have announced that they have put adequate machinery in place to mitigate flooding in their states ahead of the rainy season. The yanstv reports that the Nigerian Meteorological Agency’s Director General, Prof. Mansur Matazu, had in January, said Nigerians would suffer flash and riverine flooding, particularly those staying…

  • BREAKING: Youths shut down oilfield in Bayelsa community

    BREAKING: Youths shut down oilfield in Bayelsa community

    There is rising tension in Koluama community in Southern Ijaw local Government Council area of Bayelsa following the invasion and shutdown of Oil facilities being operated by ConOil producing limited by angry youths over alleged non-implementation of Memorandum of Understanding with host communities. Our Correspondent gathered that the breached oil facility known as Ango 2…

  • Vigilantes foil robbery operation in Bayelsa

    Vigilantes foil robbery operation in Bayelsa

    Operatives of the Bayelsa State Vigilante services have arrested two suspected criminals over alleged robbery of a trader inside the popular Swali Market in Yenagoa. The identified suspects are John Clement (22) from Ekeremor and Austin Godsown (33) from Southern Ijaw LGAs, were apprehended after they had successfully dispossessed Edet who hails from Akwa Ibom…

  • Police present N24m to families of deceased cops in Bayelsa

    Police present N24m to families of deceased cops in Bayelsa

    The Bayelsa State Police Command on Tuesday presented cheques worth N24, 295,062 to families of eight Police officers who died in active service in Bayelsa State. Police Commissioner, Ben Nebolisa Okolo, who presented the money to the next of kin of the dead officers in Yenagoa on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, Usman…

  • Eight dead, four rescued as another boat capsizes in Bayelsa

    Eight dead, four rescued as another boat capsizes in Bayelsa

    A commercial speed boat conveying twelve passengers from Korokorosei community to Ayama in southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State capsized on Wednesday, leaving eight of the passengers dead. Seven persons travelling from Otuan to Ayama in Southern Ijaw were killed in a boat mishap that occurred over the weekend. YANS gathered that the…