Bayelsa state

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Local News

Days to Census, NPC official, driver, maid kidnapped in Bayelsa

VAM News April 25, 2023 0 Comment

•Abductors demand N5m ransom Yenagoa— A Federal Commissioner with the National Population Commission, NPC, in Bayelsa State, Mrs. Gloria Izonfuo, has been reportedly abducted by gunmen. It was gathered that Mrs. Izonfuo, a former...

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Politics

Douye Diri Declared As PDP Governorship Candidate In Bayelsa

VAM News April 12, 2023 0 Comment

VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update THE Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has declared Senator Douye Diri as winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary in Bayelsa to contest the November 11...

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March 18: Market women troop out to sell their wares in Bayelsa, insist they’ve lost interest in electoral process

VAM News March 18, 2023 0 Comment

VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update Traders in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, trooped out en mass to sell their wares as they say they are not interested in participating in the state governorship and...

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Education

Varsity lecturer burnt to death in lone auto crash

VAM News January 23, 2023 0 Comment

THE NEWS YOU NEED THE Dean of Student Affairs of Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), Dr Ayasen Kemeakegha, has been burnt to death in an auto crash along Tombia-Amassoma road. According to the...

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Local News

Four Yahoo boys die of drug overdose in Bayelsa

Bright Olorungbotemi December 2, 2022 0 Comment

VOICE AIR MEDIA Four suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo Yahoo boys were Friday confirmed dead after the intake of overdose of strange illicit drugs along the Nasco Egei road of Biogbolo community...

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Local News

Atiku donates N50 million for flood management in Bayelsa

VAM News October 25, 2022 0 Comment

VOICE AIR MEDIA THE Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, today visited Bayelsa State to commiserate with the victims of the ravaging flood....

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Local News Sports

Popular footballer drowns while rescuing victims of boat mishap in Bayelsa

VAM News October 22, 2022 0 Comment

A 31-year-old grassroots footballer from Bayelsa State, Ernest Peremobowei, has reportedly died while trying to rescue victims of a boat mishap in the raging flood of Bebelebiri Community, in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa...

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Local News

Gunmen abduct Jonathan’s cousin in Bayelsa

VAM News June 4, 2022 0 Comment

The Bayelsa Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Mike Ogiasa. Ogiasa, a former cabinet member in the administration of former Bayelsa governor Senator Henry Seriake...

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Politics

Jonathan Finally Defects To APC In Bayelsa

VAM News May 12, 2022 0 Comment

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a bid to recontest for President in 2023. This comes hours after disowning a nomination form purportedly procured for...

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Local News

Insecurity: Bayelsa Declares Dusk-To-Dawn Curfew On Waterways

VAM News October 19, 2021 0 Comment

The government of Bayelsa has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on its waterways. This is part of measures taken by the state government to curtail sea piracy, kidnappings and other criminal activities. This was announced...