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Troops of the Joint Task Force South South, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), have arrested six suspected illegal miners and intercepted a large wooden boat conveying about 5,000 bags of illegally mined ilmenite sand in Bayelsa State. The suspects were apprehended at about 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 13, 2026, when troops of 343 Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion…
Bayelsa State has been on the edge due to a planned rally by the group, ‘The New Associates’, led by PDP’s South South Zonal Secretary, George Turnah. The flier for the rally scheduled for April 12, as earlier circulated on social media, was to host the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. This…
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The Supreme Court of Nigeria will tomorrow Friday, August 23, deliver final judgments in the disputes that arose in the conduct of governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States in 2023. The apex court had on Monday took arguments from lawyers representing various candidates in the disputes and reserved judgments. However, the Justice Garba Lawal-led…
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An INEC Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO) in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa state has been abducted while waiting to board a boat to his duty post. The Head of Information and Voter Education at the INEC headquarters in Yenagoa, Wilfred Ifogah said in a statement that the SPO was abducted at the Amassoma jetty…
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Barely 3 weeks to the opening of ballots in the off cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised serious concerns over the spate of violence that is threatening the delivery of a free and fair polls in the respective states. Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of…
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A total of 46,084 regular and ad hoc staff have been lined up for electoral duties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the November 11 off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states, the Chairman of the commission Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said yesterday. Yakubu told state Resident Electoral Commissioners at a meeting…
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