The Police command in Rivers says the killing of a former student leader, Mr Endwell Ejindis not connected to the ongoing clashes by political factions in the state. The Spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Wednesday that Ejindu was...
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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...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has directed Heads of Administration in the 23 Local Government Areas (LGAs), to assume leadership of the councils. Fubara gave the directive in a state-wide broadcast in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, following the expiration of the tenure of the 23 LG chairmen at...
A civil society organisation, called the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy, has called on the National Assembly (NASS) to wade into the crisis in Riversaon to save the state from anarchy. The group made the call while speaking on the lingering executive-legislature feud in the state during...
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...
The House of Representatives is set to suspend Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere, the Chairman House Committee on Petroleum DownStream over politicisation of oversight function in Rivers State. Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau), while moving a motion of personal explanation at the plenary in Abuja on Thursday told the House that...
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 Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested the wife of a suspected pipeline vandal and possession of two fabricated guns in Rivers. This is contained in a statement by NSCDC Public Relations Officer (PRO), Babawale Afolabi on Saturday in Abuja. According to the PRO, the...
In this interview, the Chief Executive Officer of Housing and Construction Mayor Limited, Mayor of Housing, My Ace China, analyses the Rivers State Investment and Economic Summit and other related matters. On potentials of Rivers State All hands are not equal, so some states are richer...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested nine suspected oil thieves at an illegal refinery in a forest boundary between Rivers and Abia. The NSCDC spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, confirmed this in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. Afolabi said that...
The drama of political bad manners in Rivers State is about to enter the ‘last corner’. Incumbent governor Mr. Siminalayi Fubara has dealt a survival kick after being pushed to the wall for most of his one year tenure. In quick succession, he has turned the table...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has dismantled an illegal refinery with more than 100,000 liters of crude oil in Adobi settlement, Etche Local Government Area in Rivers. A statement by NSCDC spokesperson Babawale Afolabi on Saturday in Abuja, indicated that the site was uncovered by...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has said his administration is committed to unlocking the human and natural resource potential of Ogoniland, while ensuring the environmental and economic security of Nigerian communities. The President stated this on Wednesday at the State House during a meeting...
The Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has said the commission has registered over one million youths for its new empowerment programme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission recently launched the Holistic Opportunity Project of Engagement (Project HOPE) for youths...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has uncovered two illegal bunkering sites in Rivers. The NSCDC spokesperson, CSC Babawale Afolabi, in a statement on Monday, disclosed that the sites were located at Odagwa-Owaza Riverside boundaries of Rivers and Abia while the other was at Etche...
More facts are emerging in the political crisis rocking Rivers State, with Edison Ehie, the Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, giving more insight on the reason behind the frosty relationship between his principal and the former Governor, Nyesom Wike. Ehie said the problem in Rivers State...