BBNaija’s Trikytee, Nengi Appointed SSA To Bayelsa Governor November 6, 20200 Big Brother Naija stars, Trikytee and Nengi have been appointed senior special assistant to Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri. Where Triky Tee’ Trikytee’s portfolio is yet to be announced, Nengi was appointed as a senior special assistant on the girl child to the Bayelsa … Read more
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, will on Tuesday, August 25, swear in the 24 members of his cabinet earlier screened and cleared by the state House of Assembly. Daniel Alabrah, acting Chief Press Secretary to the governor disclosed this in a statement on Monday, August 24. The inauguration is taking place seven months after Diri … Read more
– Diri has reacted to the ruling of Bayelsa tribunal – Ekohotblog had earlier reported that the Bayelsa state governorship election tribunal sitting in Abuja cancelled the election of Duoye Diri, governor of Bayelsa state – The tribunal ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election in Bayelsa within 90 days, … Read more
– Bayelsa Former Gov, Dickson says Diri remains the Governor of the state – Ekohotblog had earlier reported that the Bayelsa state governorship election tribunal sitting in Abuja cancelled the election of Duoye Diri, governor of Bayelsa state. – The tribunal ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election in Bayelsa … Read more
The Bayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Duoye Diri as Bayelsa State Governor. The three-man panel took the decision today, Saturday, August 15, a month after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal filed by a former aspirant of the Bayelsa governorship election under the Peoples Democratic Party, Timi Alaibe, … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to spend more on infrastructure across the country, focusing on finishing projects delivered by local contractors and technology that create jobs for thousands of Nigerians. The President, amidst clamours for urgent infrastructural development of the oil-rich Niger Delta region of the country, also assured that more projects are planned for … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday tuned-in to the virtual commissioning of the 17-story Nigerian Content Tower of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in Yenagoa. Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, delivered a speech at the commissioning. The NCDMB building comes with its own 10 Megawatt gas-fired power plant and a 1,000 seater conference … Read more
Police Command in Bayelsa State has revealed that the operatives of Operation Puff Adder have apprehended the leader of the cult group that attacked the Lion of Judah Deliverance Church, Azikoro, Yenagoa Local Government Area. Ekohotblog gathered that during the attack on the church on Wednesday on 5th of August, four people including a pregnant … Read more
The Bayelsa COVID-19 Task Force on Sunday announced that the state recorded one more death, bringing the total number of death cases in the state to 20. Dr Jones Stowe, Director of Public Health and member of State’s COVID-19 Task Force, made this known in Yenagoa. Stowe said the state also confirmed four new cases … Read more
Spokesperson of the Bayelsa State Police Command, Asinim Butswat has confirmed that about twelve persons were burnt to death in a fatal road crash along the Tombia-Ammassoma road in Yenagoa LGA, on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said the accident occured after a 14-seater passenger bus rammed into … Read more
A Federal High Court on Tuesday has affirmed Douye Diri as the validly elected Governorship Candidate in the 3rd September 2019 Elective Congress of the People’s Democratic Party in Bayelsa state. In the sitting that lasted for two hours, presiding judge, Justice Tijani Ringim in his judgement dismissed the case that the Plaintiff failed to … Read more
A group of youths, supppsedly from the Bayelsa State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday has stromed the Abuja National Secretariat of the Party in protest demanding the expulsion of Mr. Timi Alaibe from the party. Recall that Alaibe is presently in court challenging the nomination of Diri as the candidate of … Read more
Five Unknown Gunmen, have kidnapped an octogenarian grandmother, Mrs. Beauty Nimiyigha in Agudama-Ekpetiama, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Ekohotblog gathered that the incident occurred at about 11: 40pm on Thursday. The gunmen were said to have bundled their victim into a Pathfinder Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) but later abandoned the car and escaped with their victim into … Read more
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded a fresh election in Bayelsa State following the alleged unconstitutional swearing-in of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate as governor of the state. According to Premium Times, the nationwide chairman of the celebration, Adams Oshiomhole, in a letter of appeal to the Independent National Electoral Compensation, attested the … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reacts to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole’s comments on the ruling of the Supreme Court on the Bayelsa State Governorship election. Oshiomhole, earlier while reacting to the sacking of APC’s David Lyon by the apex court, had insisted that Lyon was democratically elected and … Read more
A few hours after now ex-governor of Bayelsa State, David Lyon,and his running mate were sacked from the leadership of the state, the members of the Peoples Democratic Party and its new governor-elect, Douye Diri,erupts with praises and dances in the state government house. READ ALSO: Bayelsa: Diri Sues For Peace, Begs Defectors To Return This was … Read more
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson says he will be leaving behind very big shoes for his successor after eight years of sustained efforts to develop the state. Dickson added that his administration has raised the bar of performance for succeeding governments by making painstaking sacrifices and ambitious investments in the interest of the state. … Read more
The executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon Seriake Dickson, baa ordered the immediate payment of the federal government approved national minimum wage for civil servants in the state starting with January 2020. Dickson gave the approval Friday night during a meeting with the leadership of organised labour in Yenagoa, the state’s capital. He said “I … Read more
The residents of Aghoro I, Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has lamented that they are been shortchanged and inappropriately compensated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, for the oil spill in their community. The community slammed the oil firm for arbitrarily determining the compensation figure for the May 17, 2018 … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Governor-elect of Bayelsa State and David Lyon over his victory at the state Governorship Election. Ekohotblog recalls David Lyon was declared winner of the Bayelsa governorship election on Sunday midnight, defeating PDP’s Douye Diri by a large margin. Muhammadu Buhari in a statement on Sunday night commended Lyon for … Read more