A fisherman has killed a shark he caught at Akassa community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that he caught the shark on Friday morning, September 22, 2023. The post Fisherman butchers ‘shark’ caught in Bayelsa community appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
Member representing Sagbama-Ekeremor Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Fred Agbedi, has been sacked by a National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Bayelsa State. A panel which presided over the petition marked EPT/BY/HR/01/2023 and filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Michael Olomu, directed INEC to conduct a supplementary…
Fishermen caught a marine animal, Manatee, in Apparanbie community, Akassa Island, in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The fully aquatic mammal was caught on Wednesday 6, September 2023 at 6:19 pm. Manatees are sometimes known as sea cows. All three species of Manatees are classified as Vulnerable…
Comrade Alagoa Morris, the State coordinator of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has dumped the Labour Party for the Peoples Democratic Party. Morris, an environmental rights activist and Environmental Right Action and Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), made the announcement on Wednesday, August 30, ahead of the November 11 governorship election in…
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Opu-Nembe community following a crisis. Governor Diri announced this after a closed-door meeting with members of the Security Council in the state. He also dissolved all the youth and chieftaincy councils in Opu-Nembe. The security council also called on the Inspector…
The Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) has released the final list of candidates for the governorship election in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo states scheduled for November 11, 2023. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the approval of the list followed a meeting held by the…
A suspected thief was reportedly beaten to death by an mob in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the suspect, armed with a gun and dagger, allegedly tried to rob a woman at PDP road in the early hours of Thursday, May 25, 2023. According to reports, the angry mob descended on…
A 19-year-old student of the Federal University of Otuoke (FUO), Bayelsa State, identified as Job Alawari-Kei, has died after an alleged overdose of an illicit drugs. The 300-level student of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, allegedly collapsed and died after consuming the drugs known locally as Colo. Spokesperson of the State Police…
A 10-year-old boy has reportedly killed his 12-year-old friend with his grandfather’s pistol while re-enacting a spiritual bulletproof role in a movie they watched in Otuan community of Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. According to Leadership, the boys were re-enacting scenes from the movie when the deceased claimed that he had…
Operatives of the Bayelsa State Volunteers have arrested a suspected thief for allegedly stealing an HP laptop at Agudama-Epie in Yenagoa, the state capital. The suspect identified as Richard Olopele, 24, hails from Arogbo Community in Ondo State but resident in Agudama. In a confessional statement after his arrest on Thursday,…
Many people are missing after a boat conveying passengers from Yenagoa to Okpoama in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State capsized on Thursday, April 6, 2023. The incident happened at Okoroma River in Nembe local government area of the state. The wooden boat was said to be conveying passengers and goods before…
Bayelsa State Police Command has recovered the corpse of a 23-year-old man, Victor Anozie Alex, allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen in Okumoni community of Okordia clan, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The decomposed body of Alex was found in the bush after a team of local residents combed the bush in…
Three people were killed in a supremacy battle between two militant gangs in Opu-Nembe community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The gunmen, who stormed the community on Wednesday night, February 15, 2023, were said to have engaged in exchange of gunfire. An aide to the youth president of Opu-Nembe community, Baite Nelson-Agala…
The United States Government has has repatriated the sum of $950, 000, which was looted by a former Governor of Bayelsa State, late Mr. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, back to Nigeria. This was disclosed to newsmen by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, February 16. She…
The police in Bayelsa state have arrested a man identified as Arepamowei Koru, for allegedly beating his 22-year-old lover, Toma Serve-god Angolo, to death in their apartment in Ogobiri community in Sagbama local government area on Tuesday, January 24. According to reports, the two lovers were said to be cohabiting in the man’s community before the tragic…
Environmentalists, tourists and residents have reacted over the killing of chimpanzees in the Edumanom Forest Reserve, in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Photos of hunters boasting of killing and selling chimpanzees to interested locals who eventually used them for pepper soup surfaced on facebook. One Ebiowei recently shared photos of ”Chimpanzee meat…
Operatives of the Anti-kidnapping unit of Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a suspected armed robbery suspect, Kaizer Freeman, who is alleged to be very notorious for his criminal acts in the state. Freeman was arrested following a complaint by a victim who was robbed of her mobile phone on gunpoint at Agudama, Yenagoa, on…
A man was caught stealing a bunch of plantain at Elebele community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The suspect, who was caught two days ago, was given strokes of cane by the newly appointed Community Development Committee (CDC) Chairman, Comrade Okala Precious Peter.
The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Tari Ogede, for impersonating as a medical practitioner in Angiama, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area. The Permanent Secretary, Bayelsa Ministry of Health, Dr. Oluwatoyin Azebi, who made this known in Yenaoga shortly after her visit to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Police Headquarters, said…
Nigeria’s premium online and gaming brand Betway, has donated food items worth millions of Naira to victims of the recent flood that ravaged communities in Bayelsa State. The presentation of the food items was done at the Bayelsa office of The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Otunba Kunle Olamuyiwa, the Chief Operating Officer of…
A young man has been nabbed for allegedly stealing a generator in Okutukutu community, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. The youth president of the community, Kester Wilcox, disclosed this in a Facebook post on December 12, 2022. “This young man was caught with a stolen generator at 4am this morning,” Wilcox said. A closer…