Local reports show that Jonah who was a student of the Niger Delta University died after falling on an exposed electric wire he was working on at Ogbolomaibiri, Nembe, Bayelsa State.
The ill-fated boat had departed from the Bonny/Nembe/Bille Waterfront Jetty in Port Harcourt with 22 passengers. Although 19 of them were rescued, two male adults and a young girl lost their lives.
The sad incident which took place in Ogbolomaibiri, Nembe area of Bayelsa has left many people in a state of distress. His corpse was recovered about 30 minutes later. See more photos below:
Omubo, who hailed from Nembe in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was also a beneficiary of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and leader of the Phase 2 Amnesty beneficiaries in the state.
to the Niger Delta Avengers who in May claimed responsibility for blowing up the facility, had killed three oil workers at an oil field operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company, in Bayelsa on Wednesday at the oilfield located in the creeks of Nembe
Impact of Nembe crudeChecks by Vanguard indicated that the nation's total oil output has been impacted by the recommencement of production and export of Nembe crude by the NNPC/ Aiteo Joint venture.
Nembe wrote ; Nice wedding concept, I really love this. If you like cook 5 bags of rice, people go still go house dey say the food no reach them. Some go chop still tell you say them no eat anything at all... Dan wrote ; What!
Seminetari also said the multi billion naira Ogbia- Nembe Road in Bayelsa State will be inaugurated later this month to drive development in that part of the state.
According to him, the two suspects, Junior Danumunabo, aged 20, from Nembe Local Government Area of the state and one Ezeago, were picked up at Amarata area at about 5am on Friday following investigation into the crime.
It was learnt that the incident occurred on Wednesday at a work station in the creeks of Nembe around Obama flow station operated by Eni Oil, a parent company of Agip.
Usman said the suspects were arrested by the Nigerian Navy Ship SOROH around Beama community in Nembe Local Government Area in the waterways within Bayelsa.
The petitioner had alleged that the election was marred by malpractices, intimidation of voters, hijacking of electoral materials, no-voting and non-collation of results in substantial parts of Sagbama, Yenogoa, Nembe, Ogbia,and Ekeremor Local
Forcados Blend, Escravos Light, Bonga, and Egina appear to be the most popular, and our latest addition - Nembe Crude - fits well into this basket," she said.
The DSS explained that Mamayebo was arrested in connection with the kidnap of an expatriate staff of Setraco Construction Company and murder of two soldiers along Ogbia-Nembe road in April and subsequent murder of two soldiers.
"Not to talk of the Trans Escravos Warri Kaduna pipeline amounting to over 20. 5 million dollars annually and that of the Bonny Nembe Creek trunk pipeline surveillance job that worth over 2.7 million dollars contract in the creek of Niger Delta
In the delta region of the Niger, the Itsekiri kingdom of Warri, the Ibibio kingdom of Akwa-Cross, and the Ijo (Ijaw) city-states of Nembe, Elem Kalabari, Bonny, and Okrika complements the list of old empires in the country.