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BAYELSA State-owned Niger Delta University, Amassoma, has witnessed an increase in the number of promotions among the academic staff and intake of students, within the last four years, with over 188 promotions of lecturers and increased student enrolment from 3,500 to 7,600. According to existing data, the institution, under the …

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri condemned the assassination of an All Progressives Congress (APC) member in the state. The assassinated politician, Sunday Frank-Oputu, was shot dead at his Yenagoa residence by gunmen on Tuesday night. Diri, in a statement from his spokesman, Daniel Alabra, on Wednesday in Yenagoa, condemned the …

Nigeria’s youngest gold medallist, Deborah Quickpen, has emerged winner of the just concluded U-10 Africa Youth Chess Championship in Ghana. The 9-year-old Bayelsa-born chess prodigy, amassed 8.0 points, to defeat Tunisia’s Hasnaoui Abrar in her 9th and final game. She was crowned champion ahead of nineteen others drawn from other …

Private schools in Bayelsa State will not charge first term school fees for the 2020/2021 academic session, but will only collect third term fees for the just-concluded session. This decision was reached during a meeting at the Education House in Yenagoa between the state Ministry of Education and the National …