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A former Director of Defence Information, Major General Rabe Abubakar (retd.), and his wife have reportedly been abducted by suspected armed bandits in Katsina State, north-west Nigeria. The incident occurred on Saturday along the Matazu axis of Katsina State while the retired senior military officer and his wife were travelling to Katsina. According to reports,…
Justice Nsemeke Daniel of the High Court on May 25, 2026, sentenced Sergeant Goodnews Akpan to death by hanging for the torture and murder of a suspect detained over a bailable offence in Akwa Ibom State. The convict, who was attached to the Anti-Kidnapping Squad in Uyo, was found guilty of brutally assaulting the suspect…
“This season reminds us all of God’s abiding faithfulness and providence towards us as a people, blessed more than all other sections of our great country. So, let us prepare ourselves for the new move of God which will certainly come.”
The National Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Godknows Boladei Igali, has announced that May 25 will henceforth be marked as “Chief Edwin Clark Memorial Day” across the South-South geopolitical zone beginning from 2027. Igali made the declaration during the 11th Founder’s Day and 99th posthumous birthday celebration of elder statesman, Edwin Kiagbodo…
*Inaugurates Reconciliation Committee Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has appealed to well-meaning stakeholders in the Ijaw ethnic nationality to collectively ensure that the Ijaw National Congress (INC) was not factionalised. He said history would not forgive them if they allowed personal interests to overshadow the cause of the Ijaw people. Governor Diri stated…
By Mike Arnold On May 16, 2026, President Trump killed the world’s #2 ISIS commander in a strike on his compound inside Nigeria. Americans better start paying attention. Nigeria is not a sideline in the war on terror. It is today the center of Islamic end-times theology — what they believe is the prophesied launchpad…
Interestingly, on board the air-bird was the Governor of Bayelsa State, Sen. Douye Diri, who was Passenger 1A.
The South-South Governors Forum (SSGF) has expressed strong solidarity with first-term governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the party’s scheduled governorship primaries holding on Thursday, May 21, 2026. In a statement issued by the Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, the forum commended the governors for what…
*Says Test-Run To Cover Yenagoa Soon Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, on Sunday, recounted the state’s journey to its gas-powered electricity project and how the demise of the Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, Dr. Herbert Wigwe, in 2024 almost scuttled it. Governor Diri also stated that the power turbines, commissioned by…
