Akwa United will kick start their new campaign with an away game against Bayelsa United on Sunday, September 17, 2023.

Source: https://www.completesports.com/osho-okays-akwa-uniteds-preparation-for-new-season/

A Senior Special Assistant to Bayelsa state governor on special, Comrade Charles Kurobo, has joined the All Progressives Congress (), citing hunger as his major reason for dumping the Peoples Democratic Party’s campaign train.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/bayelsa-poll-diris-aide-dumps-pdp-campaign-joins-sylvas-camp/

At plenary on Wednesday, a petition was laid before the House on the alleged remapping of local government areas in Akwa Ibom state, that has led to the Ijaw lawmakers from Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers states to bring the matter up.”

Source: https://www.blueprint.ng/ijaw-reps-raise-the-alarm-over-lgs-remapping-in-akwa-ibom/

A tricycle operator was reportedly killed by an angry mob on Wednesday in the Kpansia area of the Yenagoa metropolis in Bayelsa State.

Source: https://www.informationng.com/2023/04/tricyclist-stoned-to-death-for-stabbing-passenger-to-death-over-n50.html

Ayemieye made the pledge shortly after being sworn in as the fourth substantive Chief Judge of Bayelsa after serving in acting capacity for about six months.

Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/bayelsa-to-relocate-courts-to-original-areas-of-jurisdiction/

Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri and his Edo counterpart, Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, called on the G5 Governors of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join hands with the party in its rescue mission to rebuild the country.

Source: https://flashpointnews.com/2023/01/04/2023-polls-lets-join-hands-to-rebuild-nigeria-diri-obaseki-urge-g5-governors/

“Bayelsa is moving close to a very important election.

Source: https://thewillnews.com/bayelsa-guber-be-professional-neutral-diri-tells-army/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bayelsa-guber-be-professional-neutral-diri-tells-army

“Congratulations to the Miracle Governor of Bayelsa State and the Political Head of the Ijaw Nation H. E Sen Douye Diri on the Award of The Best Performing Governor for 2022 at The Sun Annual Merit Awards.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/ex-oyo-lawmaker-hails-diri-on-award/

Delta state spending over N215bn on recurrent expenditure or Bayelsa spending more on recurrent expenditure than Kano State does not look good for fiscal sustainability considering the volatility of oil prices.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/cost-of-governance-how-states-squander-billions-on-overhead-costs-study/

Dickson, currently representing Bayelsa, explained that the amendment should include the mode of selecting the beneficiaries of the programme.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/10/10/senate-moves-to-return-national-social-investment-programme-agency-to-presidency/

Dickson, who was also a two-term former Governor of Bayelsa State, was first elected to the Senate in 2019 and won re-election in 2023.

Source: https://newmail-ng.com/house-minority-leader-pdp-in-dilemma-over-wikes-allys-endorsement/

Diri, a PDP governor of Bayelsa State, was conspicuously captured in a video in the company of some APC governors to congratulate President Tinubu shortly after the Supreme Court verdict on Thursday.

Source: https://www.legit.ng/politics/1560618-supreme-court-list-pdp-governors-visited-aso-rock-congratulate-tinubu/

Diri said, “While it is good that the Federal Government completed some of the projects started by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, we want to place it on record that for the past eight years, we never saw one new project in Bayelsa State.”

Source: https://punchng.com/buhari-didnt-initiate-any-project-in-bayelsa-diri-2/

Ebiki said the majority of APC members and most people in Bayelsa desire Lyon to fly the flag of the party but expressed worries that if not properly conducted the primary election could be hijacked by unpopular desperate aspirants.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/adopt-david-lyon-as-bayelsa-gov-candidate-stakeholders-tell-apc/

Expressing optimism that President Tinubu will grant their request, the group said Angbare has changed the lives of many in Bayelsa, emphasising that if the President carried out a survey on their claims, he would see that all they have said was true.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/ministers-ndelta-group-urges-tinubu-to-consider-character-capacity/

Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa, has urged the state Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC) to ensure fairness and credibility in the conduct of local government elections in the state.

Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/gov-diri-tasks-bysiec-on-credible-fair-lg-polls/

Governor Diri must stand down on his attempt to set Bayelsa state ablaze and uphold the important duty of his office as the Chief Security Officer of Bayelsa State.

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/11/12/bayelsa-poll-apc-condemns-alleged-attempts-to-collate-brass-lga-results-in-yenagoa/

Governor Diri must stand down on his attempt to set Bayelsa state ablaze and uphold the important duty of his office as the Chief Security Officer of Bayelsa State.

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/11/12/bayelsa-poll-apc-condemns-alleged-attempts-to-collate-brass-lga-results-in-yenagoa/

Governor Diri said this, among others, was the underlying factor behind the first Bayelsa State Sports Festival, which commenced on Sunday in conjunction with Access Bank.

Source: https://www.blueprint.ng/why-we-organised-bayelsas-maiden-sports-festival-diri/

He cited examples of three teenagers caught attempting to kill a 13-year-old girl for a money ritual in Bayelsa State in January 2022 and four teenagers living in Abeokuta, Ogun State, who killed a girlfriend of one of them for a money ritual.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/01/23/islamic-group-urges-nbc-to-ban-portables-kuku-do-ritual/