LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS0-An Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration in the Bayelsa State Police Command, ACP Emmanuel Idowu Asufi, slumped and died while performing official duty on Tuesday. ACP Asufi was said to have collapsed and died at the Police headquarters in Ovom community, Yenagoa, on Tuesday afternoon. The sudden death of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federated Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Council, has passed a vote of no confidence on Mr. Daniel Alabra, the Chief Press Secretary to Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri of Bayelsa State. The vote of no confidence was passed in Alabrah yesterday during the chapel’s monthly…
Managing Director of Brikari Nigeria Limited, waste management contractor of Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Bright Ayebakari, has disclosed that no week passes without officials discovering corpses of little children, severed body parts, arms and ammunition in refuse receptacles in the state. Ayebakari, who spoke to NDV in Yenagoa, on refuse disposal and challenges in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Reptiles and unwanted plants have taken over the moribund Bayelsa State Government-owned Creek Motel, Yenagoa, which has shockingly turned into a safe haven for criminals. The 90-room lodging, once the preferred hotel by businessmen, oil companies’ workers, top military personnel, politicians, among other clients, is a shadow of its old self at…
By Amos Odeh. LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abducted Bayelsa State Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Mr. Federal Otokito, regained his freedom on Monday. His abductors released him five days after he was kidnapped from his Otuokpoti community residence in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state. The Bayelsa Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ben Nebolisa, and the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Gunmen have killed four men who were involved in the maintenance on a pipeline owned by the Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni, a local security spokesman told Reuters. The men, two workers, a driver and a security operative, died at a facility in Nembe, Bayelsa state, which feeds…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented cheques to the next of kin of Police Officers who died in a boat mishap that occurred during the Bayelsa Central and West Senatorial Districts’ bye elections, held on 5th December 2020. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Emmanuel Alex-Hart made the presentation to the…
.LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Five buildings and other property in Obogoro Town in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have submerged into the Ikoli River following a landslide arising from Coastal Erosion The incident which took place late Saturday night to the early hours of Sunday has displaced several persons as scores of Residents were…