A suspected improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on Wednesday at the Bayelsa state secretariat complex in Yenagoa, the capital. Musa Mohammed, police spokesperson in Bayelsa, said in a statement that the explosion occurred at about 6 am, noting that no casualties were reported. Mohammed added that Iyamah Edebor, the state police commissioner, immediately led the…
An 18-seater bus conveying mourners to the burial of Bayelsa State’s late Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, was involved in a fatal accident along the Toru-Orua axis of the Sagbama–Ekeremor Road. According to sources, the crash claimed the lives of 10 persons. Several other passengers sustained injuries and were rushed to nearby hospitals for emergency…
A 28-year-old man, Joseph Fekala, has been sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of 25-year-old Kate Oguoh. Fekala was arrested in July 2022 after he strangled Kate to death over a dispute regarding ₦50,000 that the deceased had given to him, and buried her corpse in his room at Okaka, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State…
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa says he has directed an autopsy after the death of the state’s Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. Diri made the disclosure on Saturday while hosting former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Government House, Yenagoa. Ewhrudjakpo breathed his last after collapsing in his office on Thursday. He was rushed to the Federal…
The Peoples Democratic Party has confirmed the death of Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo. GISTSMATE MEDIA earlier reported that the deputy governor died on Thursday at FMC Yenagoa hospital, aged of 60. The deputy governor reportedly collapsed in his office in Yenagoa on Thursday, December 11, 2025, around 1:30 p.m., and was…
Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo, is reportedly dead. It was gathered that the deputy governor died on Thursday at hospital at the age of 60. The deputy governor reportedly collapsed in his office in Yenagoa on Thursday, December 11, 2025, around 1:30 p.m., and was immediately rushed to the Federal Medical Centre…
Men of the Bayelsa State Vigilante Service on Monday arrested a suspected serial phone thief, identified simply as Francis, at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex, Yenagoa, the venue of Governor Douye Diri’s defection to the All Progressives Congress. The suspect, who reportedly confessed to travelling from Rivers State to take advantage of the large political…
Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, is abuzz as members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, formally welcome the state’s Governor, Senator Douye Diri, and his supporters to the party. Thousands of supporters of the APC and Diri, dressed in white t-shirts and colourful attire from all eight local government areas, had started trooping into the…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Diri announced this on Wednesday at the exco chamber in the Bayelsa State Government House. Our correspondent gathered that the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Abraham Ngobere, along with 18 PDP lawmakers,…
Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa State Police Command and Nigerian Immigration Office, Festac Town, Lagos, have rejected a bribe of N4 million from George Idumangi, who has been arrested for the murder of Richard Ekpebu, a Bayelsa estate agent. Idumangi allegedly offered the N4 million bribe to immigration officers so they would…
