Tag: bayelsa
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Court orders Bayelsa PDP to pay N105m rent arrears
A High Court in Yenagoa on Thursday ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bayelsa chapter, to pay N105 million outstanding rent to the owner of its secretariat complex. Justice T.I. Cocodia who delivered judgment today, granted the prayers of Chubby Ben Walson, the landlord of the six-wing complex. Walson was a former council chairman and…
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INEC fixes Imo, Bayelsa Plateau bye-elections ahead of Edo, Ondo guber polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has assured that the nation’s democracy and electoral process cannot be truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Commission therefore insisted that all elections will go on as scheduled despite the Coronavirus scare, adding that “while the Commission takes the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, our democracy and electoral process cannot be…
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JUST IN: Gunmen kidnap popular blogger in Bayelsa
Pandemonium broke out in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Saturday when a popular news blogger and owner of Naijalivetv.com, Mienpamo Saint was reportedly abducted at his home by hooded gunmen. According to reports, the blogger was kidnapped at about 1:00am on Saturday. The gunmen reportedly whisked the victim to an unknown destination after seizing…
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COVID-19: NNPC commences construction of 200-Bed infectious diseases hospital in Yenagoa
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-led Oil & Gas Industry Intervention Initiative on COVID-19 over the weekend began the third phase of their support programme with the ground breaking ceremony for a permanent Emergency and Infectious Diseases Hospital for the South-South Region in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. A release today in Abuja by NNPC Group General…
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Bayelsa records index coronavirus case
Bayelsa has recorded the first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. Dr. Inodu Akpoku, the Chairman of Bayelsa COVID-19 Task Force implementation Committee, confirmed the affected woman has been quarantined at one of the isolation centres in the state. Akpoku said that there was no cause for worry and that the state is well-prepared…
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Panic as strange dead fishes litter Bayelsa coastline
Bayelsa Government on Tuesday urged residents to abstain from harvesting, processing, eating or selling dead fishes currently littering the Atlantic ocean coastline in the state. The advice was coming more than one month after reports of massive death of fishes floating near the shoreline across the Niger Delta was deposited on the coastline by tidal…
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Keniebi Okoko’s death shocked me – Diri
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa said on Thursday in Yenagoa that he received the news of the sudden demise of Pastor Keniebi Okoko with great shock and pain. The governor, who described the late 42-year-old Okoko as an Ijaw icon, pillar and astute businessman, said Bayelsa, the Ijaw nation and indeed Nigeria has lost a…
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COVID-19: PETAN partners NCDMB, donates to Bayelsa, Rivers, and Delta States
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) endeavours, and in her effort to alleviate the anguish of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) has partnered with the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to donate Ambulances , Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other medical equipment to Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers…
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2 suspected cases of COVID-19 in Bayelsa test negative
The two suspected COVID-19 cases in Bayelsa State have tested negative for the virus, the state government has said. The samples were collected from the suspects on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa, for testing at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo State. Dr Inodu Apoku, the Chairman of the Implementation Committee…
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Bayelsa, Abia, Ebonyi, Kogi, A’Ibom, Rivers, relax lockdown
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday directed his officers and men to enforce the restrictions designed to contain the spread of coronavirus during the Easter celebration While felicitating with Christians as they mark Easter, he urged worshippers to observe prayers and worship programmes in their homes. Police spokesman Frank Mba urged religious leaders…