By Amos Okioma LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa Police Command has confirmed the killing of Mr Okaye Igali, the Southern Ijaw branch Chairman of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE) by unidentified assassins. DSP Asinim Butswat, the Spokesman of the state Police Command, confirmed the murder to newsmen Saturday in Yenagoa. “Igali `m`age 53,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State government has concluded plans to build tank farms for petroleum products, the State Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Elder Markson Fefegha, has said. The tank farms would serve as reservoir to cushion the adverse effects arising from scarcity of petroleum products on people in the state. The Commissioner stated this on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodlck Jonathan, Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson and the top Ijaw leaders called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the APC to be sincere with the implementation of the recommendations of the party’s committee led by Governor Ahmad Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State. They made the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSANGERS)-Over N3 billion has been spent by Bayelsa State as counterpart fund in the Education sector in the last six years, according to the State Commissioner for Education, Jonathan Obuebite. The gesture, he stated, was aimed at attracting Federal Government’s support and presence for the state. Obuebite stated this on Thursday in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Government has concluded arrangement to launch a crime control drone system to assist in the prevention of crime and criminality, the State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Chief Blessing Ipigansi-Igbagara, said on Wednesday. The mechanism was developed by an indigenous manpower and technology system in line with the present administration’s…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The power outage in Bayelsa and parts of Rivers was the handiwork of youths who shut down a transmission station at Ahoada in Rivers state. Mr John Onyi, Manager, Corporate Communications at Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) who confirmed the development said that the utility company was incapacitated…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youth Development, Chief Collins Cocodia, has affirmed that the state government is collaborating with the African Tide Union (ATU) , an organization based in Germany for the empowerment of the youths by involving them in different training programme. Cocodia who said no fewer than five thousand youths have…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa state government has assured residents of the state of twenty four hours uninterrupted power supply by September, 2018. The government which blamed recent power outage on cable theft and vandalisation, also disclosed that all the Local Government Areas in the state have been connected to the national grid. The Managing Director…
