Barely 48 hours after the deadly attack on Kasuwan-Daji Market in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, which left about 42 people dead and scores of others—including children and elderly women—abducted, Terrorists have struck the area again. This time, the attackers targeted a Mobile Police (MOPOL) checkpoint in New Kalli, Wawa Ward of Borgu…
Liberty FC of the Okaka Correctional Centre have qualified for the next round of Nigeria’s biggest grassroots football spectacle, the Bayelsa Governor’s Football Tournament, tagged the Prosperity Cup. Liberty FC defeated the Nigerian Air Force side, NAF FC, 3–1 in a match played at the Okaka Correctional Centre pitch. Akpoebi Godstime gave NAF FC the…
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, was on Saturday conferred with the chieftaincy title of Izon-Ibe-Sibeowei 1 of Tuomo Kingdom in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. Conferring the title, which means “the man that carries the whole of Ijaw nation,” the Ebenana-Owei of Tuomo Kingdom, HRM Justice Francis Tabai, said after due…
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said the state’s governorship election petition tribunal, which sat in Abuja, exposed the electoral fraud perpetrated by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11, 2023 poll in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, the party’s chairman and a serving Commissioner of Police. The…
After the brutal killing of 17 soldiers from the 181 Amphibious Battalion in Okuama, Delta State, three suspects have been apprehended. The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has vowed that those responsible for the attack will face justice. Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State has also assured the public that measures are being…
Tope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, affirmed on Tuesday that there are no plans for the administration to reintroduce fuel subsidy. Following the recent increase in the landing cost of fuel due to the devaluation of the Naira in the parallel market, there were speculations of a…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) youths in South-East and South-South regions jogging team who left Yenagoa enroute Lagos to drum support for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has arrived Ondo State. The youths, under the auspices of South-East/South-South Jogging for Tinubu Campaign Initiative, constituted a team of fitness enthusiasts to embark on the…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed to arrest and prosecute criminals in the south-east region. The group disclosed this in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful on Tuesday. IPOB said that the game has changed, warning everyone in the region to desist from committing crime. The statement reads: “We the global…
*Launches N2.4bn Projects*Gov. Diri Commends Support Of European Countries The Danish government, on Wednesday, launched a programme in support of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) crime prevention and enhancement of community-based security projects in Bayelsa State. The European nation has earmarked the sum of 1.19 million Danish Krone (about N2.4 billion)…
