Ikeibiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was on Saturday enveloped with tension following attacks by suspected thugs on the Community Monarch, Chief Kingdom Orio, and many others over the disputed leadership of the community. According to a eyewitness, the suspected thugs, numbering about 30, and allegedly hired by the Chairman […]
No fewer than 500 rice farms at Okpotuwari and Ondewari communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, have been submerged by flood. Mr Ezekiel Ogbianko, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association in the state, who inspected the submerged farms on Wednesday, called on the federal and state governments to come to the aid of the […]
The Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Kombowei Benson, has finally bowed to pressure by withdrawing his bid to run for a 4th term at the State House of Assembly and picked the form to run for the Federal House of Representatives seat of Southern Ijaw Federal constituency of the State. Speaker […]
Indigenes of Twon Brass and Olugbo kingdom in Brass and Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State, have commended the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) for its continued efforts toward the development of the two communities. According to the indigenes, the company has always lived up to its corporate social responsibility, by meeting the […]
No fewer than 900 residents of Peremabiri Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, who fled after the 2015 governorship election violence in the state have returned home. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the displaced persons returned to the community on Monday in more than 10 passenger-boats to the […]
Fatalities have been recorded following an overnight attacks by pirates along the Ekebiri waterways in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.