The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, will soon deploy additional personnel to the Niger Delta as part of the resolve to combat militancy and other forms of internal security challenges in the region, Sadique Abubakar, Chief of the Air Staff, CAS, has said.
A Youth Corps members serving in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has brought succor to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camped at the Samson Siasia stadium, with donation of drugs and mosquito treated nets worth one million naira.
The Academic Staff Union of the Bayelsa state-owned Niger Delta University, NDU, Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the State has called off its four-month strike action.
A private Security outfit, known as ‘Waterways Security Task Force’, which is run by former Militant leader, Africanus Ukparasia, popularly known as “General Africa”, has apprehended the suspected killers of three soldiers in the Nembe area of Bayelsa State.
A peaceful protest by members of the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, and Medical and Health Workers Union in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital,on Tuesday, was disrupted when the protesters were attacked by violent thugs.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Niger Delta University, NDU, chapter has accused Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State of establishing a private university named African International University, AIU