Police have taken over all the 23 Council Secretariats and some critical government infrastructure in Rivers. The police said the action was to forestall further bloodbath as well as a breakdown of law and order due to the spread of the crisis over the tenure of the outgoing...
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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has convened a security council meeting with heads of security agencies following the political crisis in the state. After the meeting held behind closed doors at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, June 18, Fubara addressed journalists. He said the meeting with...
There was a skirmish when the outgone chairman of Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State, Allwell Ihunda attempted to enter the council secretariat. Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State had asked the Heads of Local Government Administration to take charge of the 23 councils in the...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt- The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has commenced a partnership with communities in the Niger Delta region to empower 4,500 rice and cassava farmers to ensure food security in the region and country at large. Speaking during the onboarding Programme for the empowerment of the...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a consignment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup imported from India. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, confirmed the seizure in a statement issued via the agency’s X handle on Sunday. Babafemi said that the seizure...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters. The Commission in a post on its X handle, said the suspects were arrested in a sting operation carried out at Whimpey, Ada...
No fewer than three persons have lost their lives in a fuel tanker explosion that took place in the state on Tuesday. The tragic incident occurred when a petrol-laden tanker veered off the road, colliding with a taxi and bursting into flames at the Obiri Ikwerre flyover section...
The 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, has has began a two-day combat swimming contest for soldiers within its formations and units under the division. The competition is part of the army’s 2024 training programme aimed at enhancing the swimming proficiencies of soldiers engaged in...
The Police Command in Rivers has arrested some members of a criminal gang suspected to be murdering car-hire drivers and stealing their vehicles. The command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday, linked the group to multiple cases of drivers that got missing....
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Joseph Johnson, has no fewer than 1,000 health workers have been employed by the Gov. Siminalayi Fubara-led administration. Johnson disclosed this on Thursday in Port Harcourt while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the governor’s performance...
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Mr Joe Johnson, has said that the state government’s massive investments in road projects would help to decongest the Port Harcourt metropolis. Johnson spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Wednesday on Gov. Siminalayi Fubara’s achievements within...
The Rivers State Government has said it would flag off the construction of N80billion Elele-Omoku road during the 20-day activities to mark Gov. Siminalayi Fubara’s one year in office. The Secretary to the State Government, Dr Tammy Danagogo, made this known on Tuesday during an interactive session with...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The First lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu has commiserated with Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and the families of victims of the fuel tanker explosion that occurred in Port Harcourt on Friday. Recalled that four persons and over 70 vehicles were burnt in the...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, on Thursday urged the Nigerian Navy to be firm in the fight against all forms of economic sabotage, particularly crude oil theft, in the nation’s waterways. Governor Fubara gave the charge when he received the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Air Peace Airline has said a falsely triggered fire alarm was responsible for its emergency landing at Murtala Mohammed International Airport,in Lagos State. The Corporate Communications Lead, Air Peace Airline, Mr. Stanley Olisa, made the clarification while reacting to the Port-Harcourt to Lagos...
Gunmen have kidnapped a reporter with Channels Television, Joshua Rogers, at his residence in Rumuosi, Obio/Akpor area of Rivers State. . The Police spokeswoman, Rivers State Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday, said the reporter was abducted in the late...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced an investigation of 14 suspected oil thieves alongside a Motor Fishing Trawler, MFT, Hawwau Tanko, handed over to the Commission by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating...
Nigerian Army troops have seized about one million litres of crude oil believed to have been stolen from wellheads in Rivers. The Commander, 6 Division Garrison, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Brig.-Gen. Eddie Effiong, said this on Saturday when he led journalists on a tour of illegal bunkering sites in...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Gunmen, driving in a Sienna Bus, fired at police officers conducting a stop and search operation in Port Harcourt, killing one officer in the process. The state police PRO, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday, condemned the attacks...