Bayelsa State

November 07, (THEWILL) - The attention of the Bayelsa State Government has been drawn to a news report on CNN, stating that the government has not been responsive to victims' plight. This was contained in a statement signed by...

November 05, (THEWILL) - A Bayelsa-based gender advocacy group, Gender Response Initiative Team (GRIT) led by its Chairman, Barr. Dise Goddy Harry, has visited the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state to intensify sensitization campaigns against illicit...

November 05, (THEWILL) - The United Nations has described the flood disaster in Bayelsa State as a crisis of major proportions that deserves attention. The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria and Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr Matthias Schmale,...

November 04, (THEWILL) - The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for the immediate release of its Publicity Secretary in Kolokuma/Opokuma L.G.A of Bayelsa State, Ebikpoemi Ebikibina Ugo, from police custody. Ugo, who is the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT)...

November 04, (THEWILL) - The attention of the Bayelsa State Government has been drawn to the spurious claim by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, that Bayelsa State is not one of the...

November 01, (THEWILL) - Bayelsa State Government has charged community leaders in the state to stop interfering with the distribution of relief materials meant for designated IDP camps located in their communities. The state Commissioner for Environment and Chairman of...

October 31, (THEWILL) - Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has again tasked the federal government on its support to the state, to cushion the effect of the devastating floods. Governor Diri said considering Bayelsa’s contribution to the nation’s economy,...

October 31, (THEWILL) – Over eleven children have been delivered at the Ox-bow Lake Internally Displaced Person camp within the last two weeks of camping, amid the ravaging flood that submerged virtually the entire Bayelsa state. Among them were three...

October 28, (THEWILL) - Worried by the unabating flood that has destroyed properties worth millions of Naira and rendering hundreds of people homeless, the Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe, in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa State, Engr. Agbabiaka L. Adegoke,...

October 27, (THEWILL) - The Bayelsa State Government has called on its federal counterpart to work closely with flood-prone states in the planning and implementation of feasible measures to check the menace of flooding in the country. The Deputy Governor, Senator...