LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-If the political gist making the rounds in Bayelsa state is anything to go by, then it is assumed that former president Goodluck Jonathan is behind the decamping of former members of All Progressive Congress, APC, to the PDP in Bayelsa state. Political analysts in Yenagoa stated that Dr, Jonathan is desperate…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan played host to one of his predecessors in office on Sunday and described the event as a unique opportunity. Obasanjo was on a two-day visit to Jonathan’s Otuoke country-home in Bayelsa State. Jonathan said the visit afforded him a unique opportunity to host the former president. Jonathan spoke…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said it would showcase to the world some of the achievements of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson in the last six years. The laudable achievements,it said, had placed the state on higher pedestal of development. Consequently, the government has concluded plans to roll out the drums as…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Nayai Aganaba, Bayels State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced to death by hanging of 30-year-old Victoria Gagariga for the killing of her husband, Henry Gagariga, on February 4, 2015 at the residence along Ebisam Road in Akenfa, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The deceased, a lawyer, and Victoria, a staff of the Bayelsa…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youth Development, Chief Collins Cocodia, has affirmed that the state government is collaborating with the African Tide Union (ATU) , an organization based in Germany for the empowerment of the youths by involving them in different training programme. Cocodia who said no fewer than five thousand youths have…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- No fewer than 300 persons were on Saturday rendered homeless in Yenagoa, following fire incident that gutted a neighbourhood in Ekeki suburb of Bayelsa capital. NewsRangers learnt that the inferno, which occurred at about 2 am on Friday, also destroyed valuables worth millions of naira. Residents of the…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Academic activities were paralysed in public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa following strike by the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) over outstanding salaries. Primary school teachers are being owed eight months salary backlog while secondary school teacher’s arreas stand at four months. There was…