LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Unemployed Graduates Forum has commended Governor Seriake Dickson for directing the employment of 1,000 Bayelsans into the state civil service. The governor made the pronouncement recently at a live media chat in Yenagoa and on Tuesday the process for the commencement of the employment began in Yenagoa. At the…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Nigerian airman has been killed in an attack on an air force helicopter landing facility in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. The Nigerian Air Force said in a statement that a group of unknown gunmen attacked the guard post in Igbodene in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Sunday. The statement provided little…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Founder of God is Able Mega Fire Ministry, Opolo, Yenagoa, Apostle Kingsley Abiekunogho, on Wednesday directed his members to beat up journalists at Magistrates Court 3 in Yenagoa Abiekunogho is standing trial for allegedly obtaining an SUV and money from his member, Seiyefa Sayou, by trick. The Pastor whose followers besieged the…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa State High Court (Yenagoa Division), has sentenced a 38-year-old vicious cult leader, Diepreye Sunday Olayo to death by hanging. Delivering his judgment on Thursday, Justice Emmanuel Ogola found him guilty for the murder of Being Ilebiri on September 6 2011 along Ebis Mechanic road, Amarata, Yenagoa. Olayo a member of…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian rapper, singer andsong writer, Skales, other budding musicians and comedians with special playlet by the Bayelsa State Council for Arts and Culture are expected to the coming Bayelsa Restoration Easter Fiest. Thus, the Bayelsa State Government has called on residents of the state to come out en masse on Sunday March…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 15-year-old pupil at the Community Secondary School, Akenfa-Epie, in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, identified only as Emmanuel, has been arrested with a gun. Emmanuel was allegedly arrested on Monday with a locally-made pistol during lecture hours. It was learnt that the teenager was apprehended while in school…
By Amos Okioma Hundreds of residents in Kilama, Tein,Tambiri,Egbebiri communities within Biseni in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have been rendered homeless following a violent rainstorm. The whirlwind that accompanied the storm blew away the roofs of over 70 houses, five churches and three schools and destroyed over electric poles, disrupting power supply to…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa. LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State Mr Peter Obi, penultimate Weekend in Yenagoa proffered panacea for Nigeria and Africa to overcome its economic challenges. Obi made the recommendations while speaking at the ongoing 2018 African SME Round Table Forum holding at the Azaiki Library in Yenagoa.. According to Obi, Nigeria…