LAGOS DECEMBER 17H (NEWSRANGERS)-Godsgift Lagos, also known as Coco, and his driver, Christopher Etima, have been shot by unknown gunmen during a ransom exchange for the release of a kidnapped victim along the Onuebum-Otuogori road in Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State. The incident, which occurred on Sunday at about 1am, has thrown the home…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (Rtd), on Wednesday said the recent ranking of Bayelsa, as first in the Ease of Doing Business in the South-South zone of the country by the World Bank was attributable to the successes recorded in the development of Small and…
LAGOS NOVEMVER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, to train critical manpower for the newly established Bayelsa State University of Medical Sciences, Yenagoa. The agreement also involved the training of the requisite medical personnel for the faculties…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders have described the status of Bayelsa State government in the open budget index as “not very nice.” They passed the verdict during a one-day meeting on the “Framework for Citizens’ Budgeting in Bayelsa State” organised by the Social Development Integrated Centre, popularly called Social Action, at the Bayelsa…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Government has congratulated a senior lecturer in Niger Delta University (NDU), Wilberforce Island, Dr. Kaywood Leizou, for winning the 2018 World Chemical Sciences (Metal Speciation in Sediment) Championship. He emerged winner of the championship after defeating 5,845 other nominations from 89 other countries screened for the 2018 world championship….
By Amos Odeh LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The prosecution in the ongoing rape trial of Chief Richard Kpodo, a former Security Adviser to Ex-Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa on Thursday concluded its case a Bayelsa High Court. The Bayelsa state government prosecuting team led by Andrew Arthur Esq called a total of four witnesses who testified…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Chief Timi Alaibe on Friday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with over 6,200 supporters. Other APC chieftains who decamped alongside the former NDDC boss are former Secretary to…
By Amos Odeh from Yenogoa LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Concerned stakeholders in the Niger Delta have called for sanctions against environmental offenders in Nigeria, saying that such offenders are becoming bolder by the day because they do not face the consequences of their actions, especially in the region that had suffered adverse effects of oil spills…