Three year old twins kidnapped at ekeki Motor Park in Yenagoa

A set  of male twin toddlers  have been kidnapped by a middle-aged man at the Ekeki Motor Park area of Yenagoa, the state capital.

It was gathered that the kidnapper, who drove in a black jeep, had parked near the corner where Mrs Modupe Joseph, the mother of the victims, Taiwo and Kehinde roasts corn with her five children, one girl and four boys.

Modupe was away to buy some ingredients for her business when the incident happened. She was said to have kept the children in the custody of one Aisha Ahmed, a female adult, while she left to get the items.

Former Security Adviser to Ex-Gov Sylva rearranged for alleged rape collapses in court.

 Chief  Perekeme Richard Kpodo, a former Security Adviser to Ex-Gov. Timipre Sylva, on Tuesday collapsed while being rearranged for alleged rape at State High Court 7 in Yenagoa..

It would be recalled  that Kpodo was on Friday arraigned before a Magistrate court in Yenagoa for the same offence and was remanded in prison custody till August 10 for ruling on his bail application.

Kpodo was charged on a two counts of unlawful detention and rape of one Teke Blessing on June 20, 2018.

Rape: Don’t involve us in your travails – Bayelsa Govt. tells Kpodo

The Bayelsa government on Monday distanced itself from the travails of a former Security Adviser to Ex-Gov Timipre Sylva, Richard Kpodo, who was arraigned for rape on Friday.

Kpodo, was on Friday arraigned before a Magistrates’ Court in Yenagoa, on a two-counts of unlawfully detaining one Teke Blessing on June 20 at Etegwe, Yenagoa, and subsequent rape of the victim.

However, Counsel to Kpodo , Mr Julius Iyekoroghe, had dismissed the allegations as a ploy by the Bayelsa government to silence his client, who is a vocal critic of the Gov Seriake Dickson-led government.

Defection: Bayelsa APC disowns former chairman says he was expelled a year ago

The Bayelsa chapter of  All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday said the reported defection of Mr Tiwei  Orunimighe was of no effect as he was no longer in its fold.

The APC in Bayelsa faulted a claim by Orunimighe, a former Chairman of the party in the state that he is an APC member defecting with his followers to the Peoples Democratic Party.

Bayelsa APC in a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Doifie Buokoribo, noted that  Orunimighe ceased to be a member of APC when he was expelled in August 2017.

League of African University Students honour JTF Commander in N/Delta

African university students on Wednesday applauded the leadership of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta for providing security for increased oil production.

The students under the auspices of League of African Development Students (LEADS Africa) bestowed its African Patriotic Personalities Award on Commander of the JTF, Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman.

Speaking at the brief investiture ceremony in Yenagoa, leader of the group, Mr Morgan Gabriel noted that the operations of the JTF was crucial to the economic growth and development of Nigeria and the African continent.

N90bn Cargo Airport project reaches 95 % completion — Bayelsa Govt.

Bayelsa Government says it is putting finishing touches to its N90 billion

Cargo International Airport project which has reached 95 per cent completion.

The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, told nesmen in Yenagoa of Friday that the airport would be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari on Aug. 27, 2018.

Iworiso-Markson said that the airport was one of the legacy projects that would change the economic fortunes of the state and bring about prosperity for the people.

Automation of tax collection boosted our IGR above N1bn mark – Bayelsa BIR

The Executive Chairman, Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue (BIR), Dr Nimibofa Ayawei, has attributed the rise in Bayelsa’s monthly internally generated revenue above N1billion mark to deployment of  electronic collection system.

Ayawei, who spoke while receiving a 14-seater Toyota bus from the management of Access Bank, said the government of Bayelsa had abolished the cash based tax payment system and subsequently blocked revenue leakages which boosted the state’s revenue.

He said that the progressive rise in monthly revenue from about N300 million monthly before the reforms in 2017 to the N1 billion mark was a fallout of the automation of the revenue collection process.

“We are reaping the rewards of the recent re-engineering of the revenue collection process and deployment of electronic payment plattforms that captures the funds accruing to the state.

MR KAKIRI FLINT, THE RELATIONSHIP MANAGER, PUBLIC SECTOR IN ACCESS BANK, YENAGOA SPEAKING SORTLY AFTER PRSENTING A 14 SEAT TOYOTA BUS TO DR NIMIBOFA AYAWEI THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, BAYELSA BOARD OF INTERNAL REVENUE