CAPTIVE FOR 7 MONTHS
The 16-year-old son of Chief Asara A. Asara, Commissioner for Duties for Special, Bayelsa State, Inierunanam Asara, kidnapped seven months ago, has regained freedom after his parents refused to pay a ransom of N27 million demanded by the kidnappers. |
Anticipated return of Sylva in Bayelsa
Chief Timipre Sylva, whose election as governor of Bayelsa State was nullified by the Election Appeal Tribunal in Port Harcourt, April 15, has been waiting for what he called “God’s Judgment,” which by implication is the re-run election ordered by the tribunal. |
Drama as Alams is being courted
Former Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has ostensibly become the ‘beautiful bride’ now being courted by both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress (AC) in their frantic bid to clinch the governorship seat in the May 24 re-run poll. |
Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
Between 1999 and early 2007, Honourable Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. He then aspired to be the next governor of the state. In the primaries to pick the party’s flag bearer, he scored over 96 per cent of the votes cast by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates. Suddenly, the party hierarchy in Abuja thought otherwise. |
Bayelsa govt clears Sylva over $40m scam
The Bayelsa State government has given an insight into the alleged $40 million scam, involving the former administration of Chief Timipre Sylva and Bayelsa Oil Company, describing the allegation as misleading, baseless and a mere political gimmick by the opposition to discredit Sylva. |
North’s choice of Obasanjo in 1999 error of judgment – Sagir, IBB’s aide
Northern military leaders who forced the candidature of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on the rest of the country in 1999 committed a fundamental error of judgment, according to a former military intelligence officer and spokesman of General Ibrahim Babangida, Captain Sagir Mohammed (retd). |
Again, militants blow up Shell Oil wells
Suspected militants yesterday night invaded the Diebu Creek Flow station in Peremabiri, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and blew up oil wells and delivery lines belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). |
MEND attacks cut oil export by 500,000 bpd
South-South based militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed that its Operation Cyclone meant to cripple Nigerian oil exports is recording success with the shutdown of 500,000 barrels per day in the combined attacks oil installations. |
Militants lay claim to pipeline bombing
Militants said they blew up two more major oil pipelines on Monday in the Niger Delta in continuation of their “Operation Cyclone” aimed at crippling the nation’s oil export. |
Bayelsa crisis: Sylva divides the Presidency
The desperate move by some powerful politicians in Bayelsa state, some federal and Bayelsa state lawmakers, who allegedly acted in tandem with the Vice President , Goodluck Jonathan to frustrate the emergence of Hon Werinipire Seibarugu, the Speaker of Bayelsa House of Assembly, as acting governor is causing ripples within the Presidency, Saturday Sun can authoritatively reveal. |
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