The GbaramatuVoice was established in 2015 as a monthly tabloid published by the Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited. It hit the newsstand first on August 2015. The newspaper’s sole objective is to bring to public glare what the management saw at the cradle of its formation as information gap and asymmetrical reportage of the activities and people of the Niger Delta.
The Bayelsa State Government has declared November 2nd as a public holiday to mark the state’s annual thanksgiving. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, urged residents to take advantage of the holiday and turn up en masse for the solemn event. “It is that time of the year again to collectively thank God for
Some ex-Niger Delta militant leaders have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider giving pipeline surveillance contracts to youths rather than giving them to people who will not advance the peace and development of the region. The ex-miliant leaders, under the auspices of Leadership Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, made the appeal during their meeting with
There was protest in Bayelsa State, Friday, after a policeman, Corporal David Napoleon, shot and killed a 13-year-old Senior Secondary School Student identified as Joseph Tomizibe. Residents of Kpansia where the incident happened protested the killing, blocked the road and caused traffic gridlock along the busy Yenagoa-Mbiama road. The policeman attached to the Department of
The Bayelsa Government has recorded N1.3 billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in September, the Deputy Governor, retired Rear Adm. John Jonah, said on Friday. Breaking the financial statement for September in Yenagoa, Jonah said the state had realised about N1.3 as IGR in August. It can be recalled that Bayelsa had collected N868.58 million in
The 16 Brigade of Nigerian Army, Yenagoa, on Wednesday said it had renovated and opened to tourists, the Oloibiri Oil Well No. 1, where commercial oil production commenced in 1958. Captain Jonah Danjuma, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations and Spokesman of the Brigade, told the newsmen that the Army would provide free bus rides for
Peace has finally returned to Peremabiri Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, as residents who fled from their ancestral community after the 2015 governorship election violence in the state returned home. Some 900 people displaced during the violence who were taking refuge at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenagoa returned to Peremabiri
Gov. Seriake Dickson urged the people of the state to discountenance the rumour that the exercise, christened ‘Operation Crocodile Smile II’, which includes free medical care, would endanger the health and safety of the people. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Francis Agbo in Yenagoa, Dickson made the call while receiving a
Barely two years left to the expiration of his second term in office, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state, has said his government would strive to ensure that abandoned projects are not left behind for his successor in 2019/20. The Governor made this statement while speaking with journalists in Yenagoa, the state capital. He noted
Bayelsa State Government has said that the state has the highest number of abandoned Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects in the region. To this end, the state government has inaugurated a 7-man committee to assess the level of completion of NDDC projects, as well as collate the number of abandoned ones in the state.
Seven out of the 13 monkey pox patients on admission at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri in Bayelsa have fully recovered, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, has said. The commissioner said in a statement on Wednesday in Yenagoa, that the seven patients had been discharged from the hospital. The contagious
Residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, are avoiding handshakes and bodily contact in public places following the outbreak of ‘Monkey Pox’ viral diseases which has infected 13 people including a medical doctor. The development followed an advice by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, to members of the public to wash hands frequently and
…Nine others under observation–NDUTH Authorities of the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) has confirmed that an Eleven Year old boy and a Medical Doctor infected by the strange disease ‘Monkey Pox’ in Bayelsa state were treated and discharged after a week in the hospital. The Chief Medical Director of Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday paid a surprised visit to his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson and met with him behind closed doors. Wike, who later emerged from the meeting and exchanged banters with Dickson, said their discussions centred on fostering stronger ties between Rivers and Bayelsa. He said they were concerned about
The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Thursday nominated caretaker committees’ chairpersons for the eight Local Government Areas of the state. The governor sent the nominees’ list to the state House of Assembly for screening and confirmation. The nominees, whose names were read on the floor of the House by Speaker Kombowei Benson are –
A new viral epidemic known as “monkey pox” has broken out in Bayelsa State. A medical doctor and 10 other persons who came down with the monkey pox had been quarantined in an isolation centre created at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) Okolobiri, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. The isolation centre
The police on Tuesday arraigned two persons before the Magistrate Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, for supplying false information on Governor Seriake Dickson’s younger brother, Moses Dickson. The suspects – Francis Babatunde and John James – pleaded guilty for peddling false accusation against the governor’s brother. Babatunde, a plumber working in the residence of
Residents of Tombia and its environs in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have raised the alarm over the flood that has ravaged the community. The residents claimed that the state government had neglected them as the flood caused by the overflowing of the bank of River Nun, a tributary of River Niger, had
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has said the Ijaws would insist on the restructuring of the country. He said restructuring woven around resource control, fiscal federalism and devolution of powers from the centre to the federating units would enthrone a fair, balanced and equitable country, where all ethnic groups would be proud to call their
Former commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Ebikabowei Victor-Ben, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for sustaining the Presidential Amnesty Scheme. Victor-Ben popularly known as ‘General Boyloaf’ spoke on Tuesday at a peace rally to mark the day agitators willingly dropped their arms at the Yenagoa Peace Park. The
—Says without peace, there is no development The Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme and Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), has said only peace will enhance Niger Delta’s development. He implored agitators in the creeks to embrace peace, clear vestiges of violence and sustain developmental efforts of the government. Boroh, represented by
Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates have attacked a passenger boat in Bayelsa State killing two people. It was gathered that the bandits who struck along the waterways of Brass Local Government Area, left many other passengers critically injured. One of the passengers who survived the attack, identified as Saddam, said the ugly incident happened near the
The Bayelsa Government on Sunday condemned the attack by pirates on an oil services vessel on Friday which left three crewmen including two security escorts dead in Ekebiri waterways in the state. The government, while demanding an investigation, said that reports at its disposal indicate that a police officer, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps. NSCDC personnel
Barely three weeks after an ambush on a military houseboat which led to the killing of two persons in Southern Ijaw creeks in Bayelsa, suspected militants have again attacked a tug-boat laden with crude oil in the same area and killed three crew members. Gunmen suspected to be Niger Delta militants had on August 28,
Six security operatives on an escort mission were feared dead Friday nigh in Bayelsa State. The security operatives were attceked by sea pirates along the Ekebiri waterways in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Details later…
The Federal Government has concluded arrangements to establish an oil and gas institute in Odi, Bayelsa State as part of ongoing negotiations to tackle developmental problems in the Niger Delta region. President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been rolling out palliatives and infrastructural packages to develop human capacity and quell agitation in the region. The Minister of Science
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, fielded questions in a media chat on a wide range of issues including the projects embarked upon by his administration. Excerpts: Despite the economic downturn felt all over the country, your administration has lined up some projects for inauguration. What are these projects, particularly those in the education sector
Human and environmental rights activist, Mr. Alagoa Morris, was quizzed for about two hours by the military following a report he posted on social media. It was gathered that some military intelligence officers attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe (ODS) invited Morris to one of their Sector Commands in Otiotio, Yenagoa
The Bayelsa Government said on Thursday in Yenagoa that it created over 7,000 direct and indirect jobs through the release of N1. 88 billion loan to Small and Medium-scale to entrepreneurs and cooperatives. Gov. Seriake Dickson stated this at the 2017 African SME EXPO with the theme Promoting SMEs for sustainable development and economic growth’.
The Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Chief Serena Dokubo-Spiff, has quit the post following his decision to return to law practice. Members of the state executive council were shocked when Governor Seriake Dickson announced the SSG’s decision on Wednesday. The cabinet members gathered for the 79th state executive committee meeting when Dickson, in an emotion-filled
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State says the state government will conduct local government elections in 2018. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Markson-Iworiso, in Yenagoa on Tuesday, said the governor blamed financial constraints for the delay in conducting the elections. He said that the delay was not deliberate, but due to
Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has applauded the leadership of the state-owned Niger-Delta University (NDU) for securing full accreditation of 10 courses by the National University Commission (NUC). Dickson made the commendation when the Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Samuel Edoumiekumo, presented to the governor the NUC’s 2017 May/June Accreditation report in Yenagoa.
Oil spewing from equipment belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has ravaged parts of Tein-Biseni environment, Biseni, Yenagoa Local Government Area. A report compiled by the Environmental Right Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoE), showed that while Shell believed the spill was caused by sabotage, other stakeholders including regulators and the community argued it
There was pandemonium in Amatu II community of Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, weekend, as gunmen attacked the community, shooting sporadically and abducted a local boat owner. It was gathered that the gunmen, who stormed the community’s landing jetty at about 4:30am., began shooting at anyone in sight and looted goods before whisking
A Civil Society Organisation, Bayelsa Patriotic Watch has accused the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Nsima Ekere, of diverting vital projects meant for Bayelsa to Akwa Ibom state. The BPW President, Empire Otuzi, in a mailed statement on Tuesday, alleged that Ekere was diverting the projects to his home state because he
The families of three men allegedly arrested by soldiers at Ibelebiri community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have called on the relevant authorities to make known their whereabouts. They lamented that 15 months after the men were picked up, they had yet to hear anything from them. The names of those taken
