Thirteen indigenes of Niger Delta States of Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers have won the 2019 Shell Petroleum Development Company Joint Venture scholarship for a one-year master’s degree in three top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom. The latest awards bring the total number of beneficiaries to 92 since the inception of the scheme in 2010….
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bloody clash was averted on Saturday by the police in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, following failed attempts by a former militant leader and Niger Delta activist, Asari Dokubo, to hold an expanded inaugural meeting in support of Biafra. It was gathered that the Chairman of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Central Zone, Kennedy…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There was great excitement at the weekend in Ijaw-Kiri, a fishing community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State reason being that residents found dead whale washed ashore. They immediately rushed home to bring out axes, knives, and cutlasses, butchering the huge fish, an endangered specie. Neighbouring communities of Odioma and…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A five-year-old girl, kidnapped by an acquaintance simply identified as Ahmed in their Akemfa 1 area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State residence on June 10, has been found in a hotel room in Kaduna, where she was left by the kidnapper after collecting N1 million ransom. Mrs Williams Koroye, the victim’s mother, who…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have abducted three ladies traveling from Lagos State to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. The victims identified as Okuboere, Seifefa and Amara were reportedly abducted by suspected herdsmen along the Hausa-Fulani settlement in Okada area of Edo State. Princess Grace, who resides in Bayelsa, identified the victims as her sisters-in-law and…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The effort to internationalise the campaign against environmental injustice in Bayelsa State has caught the attention of the United Kingdom Parliament with the Africa All Parliamentary Group (AAPPG) holding a session to discuss the impact of oil spills in the state. The event was chaired by Chi Onwurah, a…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Elders, women and youth leaders from various communities in Brass, Nembe and Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State have bemoaned their neglect by oil companies operating in their areas. The communities also lamented years of oil spillages that have destroyed their environment, aquatic life as well as…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian twitter user has taken to the micro-blogging platform to reveal that a couple’s marriage was cancelled for eating from the same plate a week to their official wedding. He wrote; “So I’m going to be narrating a funny story that was shared with me by a friend of mine who…