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  • Associated Press An unidentified boy sold fuel at the waterside in Yenagoa, Nigeria.

    Africa Dispatch: A Visit to Nigeria's Nighttime 'Parliament' Will Connors 2010

  • Yenagoa is the capital of Bayelsa State, one of the key oil-producing states in the Niger Delta region, and has been beset by political turmoil and violence for years.

    Africa Dispatch: A Visit to Nigeria's Nighttime 'Parliament' Will Connors 2010

  • In Otuoke, the village outside Yenagoa where Mr. Jonathan was raised by a farmer mother and canoe-carver father and where Mr. Jonathan himself would help carve canoes during school breaks, little has changed over the years.

    Africa Dispatch: A Visit to Nigeria's Nighttime 'Parliament' Will Connors 2010

  • On Saturday night the discussion focused on the recent visit to Yenagoa by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who is from a small village outside town.

    Africa Dispatch: A Visit to Nigeria's Nighttime 'Parliament' Will Connors 2010

  • Beinmonyo Rufus Spiff said two explosives went off as he was holding a rally for his primary run in Yenagoa in Bayelsa state, wounding three people, with one being hospitalized.

    World Watch 2010

  • Associated Press Policemen displayed weapons Saturday collected from Niger delta militants as part of the government amnesty program in Yenagoa, Nigeria.

    Nigeria Denies Buying Militants' Guns 2009

  • Making the appeal during the Ijaws 'national day in Bayelsa's capital Yenagoa, Okoko said Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, who himself originates from Bayelsa, should use his position to promote the idea of creating new Ijaw states.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Workers push gasoline barrels from the waterfront onto the main market road of Yenagoa, Nigeria.

    Photographs that Can Change the World : Feifei Sun Sun, Feifei 2008

  • Yenagoa, the capital city of Bayelsa state - is operated as a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Nigeria.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Alamieyeseigha has long argued that he is only being picked on because of his resistance to this self perpetuation bid and while that is no excuse, it perhaps explains why the people of Yenagoa are less than enthused by the President's anti-corruption fight which many have long argued is a selective fight, targetting his "enemies"....

    Alamieyeseigha, the complexity of Nigerian politics& UK media disinterest uknaija 2005

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