Tag: bayelsa
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Bayelsa Guber: Lawyer Binalayefa Osuluku emerges SDP flagbearer
Binalayefa Joshua Osuluku a lawyer has emerged as the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, (SDP) for the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State. The legal luminary polled 151 votes to defeat his only opponent, Mrs Ebinabo Rebecca Doibo, who scored 111 votes at the primary election held in Yenagoa, the state capital, on…
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Bayelsa guber primary: Gov Diri emerges PDP flag bearer
Ahead of the November 11, governorship election in Bayelsa State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has conducted it’s primaries at the Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre, Yenagoa. The party delegates drawn from the eight local government areas of the state cast their votes to affirm the candidature of the incumbent governor Senator Douye Diri as PDP…
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Alleged N3bn loan diversion: Bayelsa Govt refiles suit against whistleblower
The Bayelsa Government on Tuesday refiled a suit against John Idumange, who raised an alarm over alleged diversion of N3 billion Agriculture loan by government officials. Justice Iniekenimi Uzakah of the State High Court in Yenogoa had
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Bayelsa: Upset as APGA candidates defeat two PDP incumbents
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Oteigbanyo George-Braah of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
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Bayelsa Gov, Diri loses father, Pa Abraham at 88
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has lost his father, Pa Abraham Diri, on Sunday, February 12 at the age of 88 years. The Diri family said in a statement signed on their behalf by Jothan Diri that their patriarch died on Sunday aged 88. The statement titled “Passage of Pa Abraham Diri” and made available…
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Governorship: PDP reschedules screening date for Imo, Bayelsa, Kogi aspirants
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rescheduled the date for the screening of its aspirants for Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi governorship election from Feb. 13 to March 1. The party announced the decision in a statement by its National
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Bayelsa man narrates how violent Christmas cow killed his brother
Eniye Igodo, the elder brother of a 43-year-old electrician in Bayelsa State, Sobokime Igodo, who was attacked two days to Christmas by a cow intended to be slaughtered for Yuletide celebration, has narrated how the sad incident happened. In an interview, Eniye said: “Actually, you know we are in the festive season and he and…
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SAD! Former Senator, Spiff is dead
A former senator who represented Bayelsa East in the National Assembly, is dead. This development was contained in a statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The powerful politician who hailed from Twon-Brass in Brass local government of Bayelsa state died on Saturday, December 24, in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness. The PDP…
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Goodluck Jonathan advises Nigeria’s next president on uniting the country
The immediate former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has advised the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi or whoever emerges the country’s president to please work on security and uniting the country.
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2023: Tinubu derides PDP, renames party, Poverty Development Party
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rechristened the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the Poverty Development Party of Nigeria. The APC flag-bearer made this disclosure in Bayelsa on Thursday while campaigning in the state.