A four year old child has been married to a 54 year old man at Akeddei community in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa state.
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The Bayelsa government, says it will not allow a protest planned for Dec. 26 to disrupt oil production at Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29, operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration.
ASHENEWS reports that the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has questioned the Imo government’s alleged occupation of all rooms in all hotels ahead of the governorship election in the state, and described it as an act to deny election observers the right to monitor elections in the state.
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit seeking disqualification of Mr Timipre Sylva from contesting Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship poll.
A former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Israel Sunny-Goli, has accepted the ruling of the Election Petition Tribunal which upheld the February 25, 2023, House of Representatives election, Hon. Marie Ebikake, as a member of the Brass/Nembe Federal Constituency of the state.
Otuoke community in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa have called on the Federal and State Governments for intervention against predicted flooding.
The journalists who were brutally assaulted on Tuesday, August 15, 2023, in Bayelsa state have told IPC’s Centre for Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ) that it was a needle-eye escape from the jaws of death.
ASHENEWS reports that operatives of the Police Strike Force have arrested eight suspected hoodlums terrorizing Nembe Bassambiri community in Bayelsa state.
The Bayelsa state government on Sunday linked Saturday’s shootout between the police and armed youths in Nembe-Basambri to the forthcoming Nov. 11 governorship election in the state.
The Bayelsa Development Initiative (BDI) has criticized the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government in the state for failing to address the ecological challenges confronting the state’s coastline communities.