LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Henry Seriake Dickson, has offered automatic employment to 307 products of the Bayelsa State Scholarship Scheme, who have concluded their doctorate and master decree programmes in various disciplines in universities across the world. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Relations, Mr…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, who was shot by men in Army uniform in Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area òf Bayelsa State, during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections has died. A statement by the Director Corporate Communications, Governor’s Office, Chief Nathan Egba-Ologo, stated that the photographer died after…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Deliberate attempt by INEC, Bayelsa state to disenfranchise about two hundred and fifty journalists from covering the Saturday general election in the state has been resisted by media practitioners in the state. As a result, practicing journalists in Bayelsa State are set to boycott the coverage and monitoring of Saturday’s Presidential and…
By Amos Okioma , Yenagoa LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NWSRANGERS)- Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson had expressed divergent views on insecurity in Bayelsa. Dickson had on Friday accused Lokpobiri and leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) of being the masterminds of election violence in…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Graduates from Bayelsa State have cried out over the alleged hijack of the state government’s recruitment exercise of 1,000 unemployed youth into the civil service. The graduates claim that politicians have truncated the process and shared the slots among themselves. Under the leadership of the Bayelsa State Graduates Forum (BSGF), the…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military and community sources in Bayelsa have described some media reports of militants’ attack on an oil pipeline in Koluama 1, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state as “fake news.” Some media have had reported that a militant group blew up a pipeline within Conoil’s oilfield near the Atlantic coastline…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The tranquile peace in the Niger Delta may have been shattered as a militant group has attacked an oil facility belonging to Conoil. The militant group called Koluama Seven Brothers (KSB)confirmed it blew an oil pipeline at Conoil’s Angle 2 field located in Koluama, Bayelsa State. The group also warned it would…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Aminu Saleh, Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, says that a father of three, Mr Samuel Sunday, has been arrested for allegedly poisoning his three children with sniper. The police commissioner told newsmen at the crime scene in Bayelsa that two of the children died after drinking sniper, while the third one…
