Sunday 30 July 2023

Jonathan can't 'hijack' Bayelsa's ministerial slot says APC Campaign Council


The Bayelsa Chapter of the Tinubu/Shettima  Independent Campaign Council (ICC) on Sunday allayed fears of impending hijack of Bayelsa's ministeriƦl slot by non All Progressives Congress (APC) faithful.


The support group assured members of the APC in the state that former President Goodluck Jonathan will not be allowed to nominate the Bayelsa's ministerial slot.


The ICC said it was inconceivable for Jonathan, who is one of the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to nominate the state's representative in the incoming cabinet of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.


Police reunites trafficked children abandoned in Yenagoa with family.


The Police in Bayelsa on Sunday said two children purportedly abandoned by an unknown child trafficker have been reunited with their family.


SP Asinim Butswat, Police Public Relations Officer in Bayelsa saiid that the abandoned children of same parents were brought to the Police by a 'Good Samaritan'.


Butswat said that investigations were underway to trace and apprehend the suspected tafficker who allegedly brought the children from Rivers to Bayelsa and abandoned them.