LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have intercepted a local passenger boat and recovered 200 cartridges of live ammunition and a bag containing a large quantity of a substance suspected to be Indian hemp. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mike Okoli, said three suspects were also arrested in connection with…
By Amos Odeh The Bayelsa State Government has indicated its readiness to pay special allowances to frontline health workers combating the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Governor Douye Diri gave the indication on Tuesday at a meeting with representatives of labour unions including the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Association of Resident Doctors in…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state has ordered the reinstatement of four lecturers demoted by the Federal University of Otuoke, located in Otuoke, Ogbia local council area. Recall in 2018 the institution downgraded Professor Steve Nwabuzor from the rank of Professor to Lecturer I;…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Liberties Organisation in Bayelsa State has appealed to the Federal Government and the Management of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria to support Creek FM and the South-South Zonal Station of the FRCN to move to the permanent site in Yenagoa. Chairman of the CLO in the…
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa. LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Para Powerlifting Coach, Mr. Fatabiri Gbassa has made a passionate appeal to government, sports authorities and Nigerians to save him from a yet to be diagnosed ailment. Mr. Gbassa who is a coach with the Bayelsa State Council has been bedridden for over two years now and…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa presided over by HON. JUSTICE A. O AWOGBORO, has issued warrant of arrest on UBA PLC and four (4) members of it’s staff for failing to appear in court even after they were served charge NO:FHC|YNG|10c|2019 by substituted means. It would be…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The inability of the Bayelsa State government to run a water project handed over to it by the Federal Government has led to the wastage of N5.9 billion and lack of potable water in the state, writes MIKE ODIEGWU. There is no potable water in Bayelsa State. While people in the rural…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Following a tip off, Operatives of Bayelsa State Police Command in collaboration with the vigilante of Okutukutu community, Yenagoa, arrested four suspected cultists on 10th January 2020, at about 0530 hours, for allegedly initiating minors into cultism. The suspected cultists include; one Godbless Jackson ‘m’, 29 years a…