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JTF arrests 2, recovers 2 bodies from militants clash in Bayelsa water...

May 9, 2013 no comments

Yenagoa (NAN) – The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, says it has arrested two suspects in connection with the recent clash between two armed groups in Lorbia 1 community, Southern Ijaw area...

Eight people killed in renewed Bayelsa violence

May 6, 2013 no comments

Security officials say eight people are feared dead in fighting between former militants and unidentified gunmen in Bayelsa. Reuters reports the gunmen opened fire on the former militants in renewed ...

Man arrested for impregnating two daughters, attempting to rape the th...

April 12, 2013 no comments

Bayelsa state police command has arrested a 58-year old man from Agbura community in Yenagoa Local Government area, who stands accused of impregnating two of his daughters and attempting to rape the ...

Bayelsa murders: Authorities pay N1m for safe release of policeman

April 12, 2013 no comments

Police authorities have revealed that Mr. Lucky Ebebi, one of the policemen believed to have been killed in an attack last weekend in Bayelsa, is still alive. Vanguard reports the policeman was freed...

Bayelsa police beat and arrest graduate students protesting unemployme...

March 26, 2013 no comments

Police in Bayelsa state have reportedly arrested over 30 graduates who were protesting the high unemployment rate in the oil-rich state. Punch reported that some 150 unemployed graduates had taken to...

3 boys allegedly killed by oil contaminated water in Bayelsa

March 25, 2013 no comments

Angry leaders in a Bayelsa community are lamenting the deaths of three young boys who they say were killed by drinking the water in Lotugbene community, polluted by an oil rig operation. The boys, Os...

Italian oil company ENI stops work in Nigeria

March 23, 2013 no comments

Italian oil company, ENI, has announced on Saturday that they will be suspending their activities in southern Nigeria due to frequent vandalism on pipelines. The company said in a statement that they...

Confirmed: Presidency granted state pardon to Alamieyeseigha, others

March 13, 2013 no comments

Senior Special Assistant for Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe confirmed to Channels Television on Wednesday that the Council of States has in fact granted state pardon to co...

23 suspected oil thieves, including 10 Indians, arrested in Bayelsa

January 16, 2013 no comments

The Nigerian Navy has arrested 23 persons, including 10 Indians and two Ghanaians, for alleged oil theft in Bayelsa state. According to the Punch newspapers, the suspects were handed over on Monday e...

Pirates free three Italian and Ukrainian sailors kidnapped off Nigeria...

January 9, 2013 no comments

Pirates in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta have freed three Italian sailors and one Ukrainian who were kidnapped on December 23 off Nigeria’s coast. The Associated Press reported that Minister G...

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