Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the appropriate authority to arrest the thugs who vandalized election materials in Ogbia LGA of Bayelsa state. The former Nigerian leader reacted to the voting process after exercising his civic responsibility at his polling unit on Saturday March 18. The Informant247 recalls that some hoodlums earlier appeared at…
The former Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has won his senatorial bid for a second term. The Informant247 understands that the former Governor represents Bayelsa west in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly. Dickson had 27,231 votes to conquer the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ayakpo Danyegha. The returning officer…
The presidential flagbearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has been announced the victor of the presidential election in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State. The Informant247 understands that Ogbia is the local government area of former President Goodluck Jonathan who is a respected leader of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)….
Dr. Ayasen Kemeakigha, the Dean of Student Affairs at Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University, NDU, was on Saturday involved in a lone accident. The university don was burnt to death in an autocrash which occurred along the famous Tombia Amasomma Road. The tragic incident occurred while he was coming back from the institution to Yenagoa,…
The presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Friday, paid the former President Goodluck Jonathan a visit at his residence in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State. The presidential candidate had a closed door meeting with the former Nigerian leader. The Informant247 observes that the meeting may not be unconnected with the…
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of Bayelsa State, REC, Mr Emmanuel Hart, said the commission would begin the distribution of PVCs to registrants from Dec. 12 to Jan. 22, 2023. Hart who made this known during a stakeholders’ meeting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, said the distribution was meant for new registrants, transfers, replacements and for those who…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has said that he will create thousands of jobs for Nigerian youth if he becomes the president in 2023. Tinubu has said that this gesture will renew the hope of the youth. Tinubu made this declaration on Thursday at the presidential campaign rally of…
Following the discovery of the corpse of a teenage girl in a hotel wardrobe, the coastal town of Twon Brass in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was thrown into confusion on Monday. The deceased, aged 16, was identified as Miss Nengi Enenimiete, an indigene of the area. It was gathered that the corpse,…
A traditional ruler has been sacked from his palace as flood occupies his palace. The traditional ruler of Tungbo town in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa, His Highness, Amos Poubinafa, is now sleeping in his car as floods have chased him out of his palace. “I have been sleeping in my Toyota Sienna for…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has sent message of advice to Nigerians to choose leaders who have passion for climate change. The Waziri of Adamawa made this remark while counseling people during his visit to Bayelsa where flooding has seriously affected persons and property. The former vice president has…
Flood has occupied the residence of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, at Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government Area of the State. While the former President paid a visit to his hometown to examine the situation of flood, on Friday, Governor of Bayelsa State, Duoye Diri lamented the level of damaged triggered by what he referred to…
Men of the Ekeki Division of the Bayelsa State Police Command have apprehended a stepmother, Peremoboere Botu. The suspect was arrested for chaining a 9-year-old boy who’s identified as Godday Simon Aprebo to a pole. She has subjected the small boy to physical abuse over allegation of being a wizard. The stepmother has accused the…
Unknown gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have shot dead a bus driver, Mr. Center Silas, in his apartment, during a raid by the criminals at Ekeki area of Yenagoa in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the robbery incident which took the life of the bus driver and a father of three happened at…
Police in Bayelsa on Thursday warned residents against taking the law into their hands. The warning followed the lynching of a suspected phone thief by a mob in Yenagoa on Wednesday. Angry residents of Green Villa Road in Yenagoa rescued a victim from a phone thief who tried to dispossess him of his mobile phone…
The Bayelsa State Police Command on Sunday said it has recovered the bodies of four officers who were missing after a surveillance boat conveying them was crushed by a gunboat in the state’s waterways on July 25. The four bodies of the slain policemen were deposited at the mortuary of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC),…
The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested one Joseph Fekala for allegedly killing a 26-year-old lady identified as Kate Ogwoh. It said that the suspect reportedly strangled Kate to death on Thursday, July 28, 2022 and buried her in a shallow grave in his bedroom at Okaka community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of…
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, has said the projects executed by local government councils in the state were as a result of the financial autonomy they enjoy under his administration. He stated this during the commencement of inauguration of projects in seven of the eight councils in the state. Inaugurating a one-storey office complex…
Men of the Anti-kidnapping unit, Bayelsa State Command, has said it has apprehended a notorious armed robbery suspect. The notorious armed robbery suspect has been on the wanted list of the police command. He has been declared wanted for various armed robbery cases in Yenagoa and environs. The police command has given the suspect’s name…
Three persons were on Monday lost to motor accident in Bayelsa State. They were reportedly burnt to ashes in the accident along the Opokuma axis of the East/West Road at Koluama/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that three other survivors, including a police constable, have been hospitalized for necessary treatment. The…
An unidentified female corp member, a pregnant woman and five other passengers were reported dead in a boat mishap in Bayelsa. The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon between Otuan and Ayama communities in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. Report has it that the boat has a capacity for 15 passengers. Among…
