An Oil and Gas Industry Consultant, Dr Maurice Ibe, has tasked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) to ensure that the four government refineries are functioning at full capacity. Ibe, who is the Group Executive Chairman of the Benham Group, made this known in an interview with...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, has directed the troops of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army to strengthen operations against oil theft to ensure a significant increase in the nation’s oil production. The COAS issued this directive during...
Rivers State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr Evans Bipi, has issued a seven days notice to commence clearing Port Harcourt city of slums and illegal waste dumpsites. The commissioner gave the notice on Saturday shortly after an enforcement operation at the Trans-Amadi Industrial Area in Port...
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) have arrested 11 suspected currency racketeers and internet fraudsters. The EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According to Oyewale, the suspects were arrested around Apara Street, New GRA, ...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has donated N200 million in support of various humanitarian services funded by the Omega Prayer Ministry (OPM) run by cleric, Chibuzor Chinyere. Fubara spoke at thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt to celebrate the 51st birthday of the cleric. He commended Chinyere for his humanitarian...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Government has debunked a social media report alleging that Governor Siminalayi Fubara shut down the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), and other oil companies in the state. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Joe Johnson, who disclosed this in a...
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has announced the successful recovery of the tail boom of the ill-fated Sikorsky SK76 helicopter, registration 5N BQG, which ditched in the Atlantic Ocean, Port Harcourt, Rivers. The NSIB disclosed this in a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs and Family Assistance,...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has recovered the fifth body from the Oct. 24 helicopter crash that occurred in the Atlantic Ocean in Port Harcourt, Rivers. The NSIB’s Director, Public Affairs and Family Assistance, Mrs Bimbo Olawumi Oladeji announced this in a statement...
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has said the fourth body of the Port Harcourt crash victim has been recovered. NSIB spokesperson Bimbo Oladeji, in a statement on Sunday, said, “A floating body was retrieved from the water and was escorted by the Cameroonian Navy to NUIMS Antan, for...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has expressed shock over the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the lives of four of its members. President of PENGASSAN, Mr Festus Osifo, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on...
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has said two more bodies have been recovered from the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter that crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Three persons were confirmed dead following the crash on Thursday. Eight persons (six passengers and two crew members) were on board...
Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that eight persons were feared dead in a helicopter crash that occurred in Rivers. The Spokesperson for the command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Port Harcourt and made available to newsmen on Thursday. Iringe-Koko stated that the...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. says three bodies have been recovered in the ongoing rescue operations of the helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, near Port-Harcourt on Thursday. Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC Ltd. Mr Olufemi Soneye, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has commenced an investigation into the accident involving a Sikorsky SK76c helicopter with registration 5N-BQG, operated by Eastwind Aviation. The NSIB Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Bimbo Oladeji, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday...
Three persons have been confirmed dead in a helicopter crash that occurred in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Thursday. The accident according to Channels reports occurred at 11:22 a.m. along the waterways in Port Harcourt when the helicopter, a Sikorsky SK76 with registration 5NBQG and operated by...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 33 suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as yahoo boys in Rivers. The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Oyewale said...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has said his administration will continue to support President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms to promote peace and prosperity in the country. Fubara made the remarks at Nigeria’s 64th Independence Day Anniversary Parade at the Government House Arcade on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. He promised...
Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, have neutralised two suspected oil thieves, and apprehended 18 others during different anti-illegal bunkering operations in the Niger Delta. The division’s Spokesman, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, said in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday, that the operations were held in Akwa Ibom,...
The Police Command in Rivers has rescued a teenager, who was kidnapped in Enugu and transported to Port Harcourt in a ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Olatunji Disu, announced this during a news conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Disu said that the teenager,...
The Rivers Police Command has busted a job racketeering syndicate that allegedly specialises in advertising non-existent employment vacancies to defraud unsuspecting job seekers. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Disu said that operatives from the...