Bayelsa State

Victim narrates how she was raped by former Bayelsa governor’s aide

THE rape trial of Richard Kpodo, a former security adviser to ex-governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, continued on...

Osun, Kogi, Benue, others may not receive final tranche of Paris Club refunds

THE Ministry of Finance says states owing workers' salary arrears will not benefit from the final tranche of the...
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: Jones Abiri’s pictures before and after his two-year DSS detention

ON July 23, 2016,  the Department of State Service (DSS), arrested Jones Abiri, a Yenagoa, Bayelsa State-based journalist, on...

SPECIAL REPORT: How Buhari’s govt detained Nigerian journalist for two years without trial

By Peter Nkanga IN tears, 80-year-old Mama Abiri undressed. Before strangers, family, and friends alike, she clasped her...
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Is Jones Abiri, the Bayelsa journalist arrested by DSS in 2016, dead or alive?

At this moment, no member of his family knows his whereabouts; no one, not even his lawyers, knows where he is being detained; no one even knows if he is dead or alive.

Unknown gunmen shoot Owei, AIT reporter in Bayelsa

Onisofie Owei, a broadcast journalist with the Africa Independent Television (AIT), was attacked by suspected armed robbers on Friday...
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