LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen have kidnapped the Federal Commissioner representing Bayelsa State at the National Population Commission, Mrs Gloria Izonfuo. She was said to have been abducted on Sunday evening around the Ogbakiri junction along the East-West Road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Izonfuo was travelling to Port Harcourt, Rivers State…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A boat conveying people from Yenagoa to Okpoama in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State capsized on Thursday, leaving many persons missing. The incident happened at Okoroma River in Nembe local government area of the state. The wooden boat was said to be conveying passengers and goods before it sank in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Christmas Eve when a cow killed a former youth president of Obogoro community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Mr Sobokime Igodo. It was gathered that the deceased and a group of friends had contributed money to buy the cow, kill it and share as they normally did every year. …
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Friday, met with former President Goodluck Jonathan at his Yenagoa residence in Bayelsa State. Obi and Jonathan, as of the time of this report on Friday evening, were in a meeting behind closed doors amid the LP candidate’s presidential campaign ahead…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi has assured Nigerians that whatever is wrong with the country he and Ahmed Datti possess the mental and physical capacity to fix it. Obi stated this at the Ox-bow Lake Pavilion, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State during the Labour Party LP, Presidential campaign rally…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Police Command said on Sunday that it had recovered the corpses of four officers who were missing after a surveillance boat conveying them was crushed by a gunboat in the state’s waterways on July 25. The four bodies of the slain policemen had been deposited at the mortuary of…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Energy company, Shell, has inaugurated the second and final phase of its comprehensive health care projects for Oloibiri and other communities in Ogbia Local Government area of Bayelsa State. “Corporate Social Responsibility means doing well. What you have done today means you’re doing well. You are impacting the lives of the communities,…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly ambushed a convoy of policemen returning from the burial of a late colleague, ASP Gilbert Sampson, along Idema-Otuabagi Road, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, killing four occupants with three others injured. Confirming the attack to Nigerian Tribune on Sunday, the Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command, SP…