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News Nigeria Bayelsa: Nigeria: Family Worried Over Siasia Mother's Health

Published on: Saturday 20 July 2019
Nigeria: Family Worried Over Siasia Mother's Health
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201907210009.html

Moses Siasia, a younger brother to ex-international and former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has explained how gunmen, in a commando style, abducted his 76-year-old mother, Mrs Beauty Ogere Siasia at her family compound in Odoni community of Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on the early hours of last Monday.

News Nigeria Bayelsa: Nigeria records highest inflation rate so far in 2019

Published on: Friday 17 May 2019
Nigeria records highest inflation rate so far in 2019
News source: http://venturesafrica.com/inflation-hits-nigeria-for-the-first-time-in-three-months/

The latest inflation report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that the year-on-year inflation rate in Nigeria rose to 11.37 percent ... and Kwara (16.34 percent), while Rivers (12.01 ...

News Nigeria Bayelsa: Nigeria: Why Tricycle Operators Protested in Bayelsa - FRSC Sector Commander

Published on: Tuesday 14 May 2019
Nigeria: Why Tricycle Operators Protested in Bayelsa - FRSC Sector Commander
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201905140731.html

Authorities of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has debunked reports that Tricycle operators popularly known as 'Keke Operators' protested against the Corps in Bayelsa State, saying the protest embarked upon last week was due to dispute between the State government and the tricycle operators over alleged annual fee for Renewal of Ministry of Transport Numbering.

News Nigeria Bayelsa: Nigeria: INEC Postpones Kogi, Bayelsa Governorship Elections

Published on: Thursday 16 May 2019
Nigeria: INEC Postpones Kogi, Bayelsa Governorship Elections
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201905170024.html

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Kogi and Bayelsa State governorship elections. The commission in a statement signed by Festus Okoye, Head of Voters Education ...

News Nigeria Bayelsa: Two Shell Oil Workers Rescued After Nigeria Delta Region Kidnapping: Police

Published on: Tuesday 30 April 2019
News source: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/04/30/world/africa/30reuters-nigeria-oil.html

Kidnappings for ransom occur in much of Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer ... in southern Rivers state last week while returning from an official trip to Bayelsa state. "The tactical team of the ...

News Nigeria Bayelsa: Insecurity: Vigilance group volunteers surveillance on Bayelsa creeks, waterways

Published on: Sunday 05 May 2019
News source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/insecurity-vigilance-group-volunteers-surveillance-on-bayelsa-creeks-waterways/ar-AAAX3Tq

WORRIED by security challenges confronting Bayelsa State and its coastal communities, the authorities of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria have volunteered to mobilise its members to the creeks and ...

News Nigeria Bayelsa: Nigeria's Bayelsa State Governor Rejects Legislator Pension Bill

Published on: Tuesday 30 April 2019
News source: https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00067557.html

Governor Seriake Dickson has refused to put pen to paper and sign a new bill that will ensure that past and present legislators in the Bayelsa State government will receive a pension for life.