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...
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Opposition Parties in the House of Representatives under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) have faulted the tenure extension for Rivers Local Governments chairmen. The spokesperson for the opposition lawmakers, Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere, voiced the position of the lawmakers at a news conference in Abuja...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Police Command have seized Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), arms and ammunition from suspected cultists in the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, revealed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. She said that the command’s C4i Strike...
The Police Command in Rivers has recovered the remains of the former Ahoada Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Bako Angbashim, who was killed by cultists. Angbashim was reportedly murdered by infamous Iceland cult leader, Gift Okpara, alias 2Baba. The police later gunned down the criminal mastermind two years...
Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, and son, Chizi have been buried in his hometown Omueke, Isiokpo in Rivers State. The late Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, his wife, and his son were laid to rest in a private interment following a funeral church service at...
Rivers State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sydney Gbara, has the political crises in the state will soon end. Gbara told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Saturday that majority of Rivers people no longer enjoyed the drama making rounds...
The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Thursday, declared his readiness to vacate office for a lasting peace in the state. The governor stated this in a programme on the African Independent Television (AIT). Rivers State has been plagued by a political crisis since October 30 last year...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has ordered immediate rehabilitation of the state’s Psychiatric Hospital in Rumuigbo in Obio Akpor Local Government Area. Governor Fubara gave the directive when he inspected ongoing building of a 44-bed space centre for drug addicts, with another 10-bed space for private patients in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigeria Air Force (NAF) on Sunday said the Air Component of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed illegal oil refining sites in air strikes in Krakama and Temakiri, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers. The NAF spokesman, AVM Edward Gabkwet, said in a statement that...
By MARGARET TIZA – Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State has been advised to rediscover the state’s biggest economic sector of old, leisure, entertainment, and tourism by appointing a Special Adviser on Entertainment. The call for the appointment of an SA on Entertainment was made came in Port Harcourt...
A joint operation by the Nigerian Navy and the Cameroonian Navy has led to the interception of a vessel laden with 30,000 litres of crude oil suspected to have been stolen from Nigeria. Commodore Rotimi Oderemi, Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship, NNS Victory, said this on Saturday at...
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...
The Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), have uncovered 14 sites illegally refining crude oil in Rivers, the Commander, Rear Adm. John Okeke, has said. Okeke who assumed duty on Thursday, said that the illegal refining site, located on Ataba Island, close to Bonny Island in Rivers,...
The Rivers Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has lauded Gov. Siminalayi Fubara for approving the immediate promotion of Local Government workers with full financial benefits. The state President of the union, Mr Clifford Paul, made the commendation in a statement issued in Port...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Police Command has dismissed one Insp. Michael Odey, accused of kidnapping and extortion of 3,000 US dollars from two persons at gunpoint in Rivers. The files of two other officers, ASP Doubara Edonyabo and ASP Talent Mungo, who were allegedly involved...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – The Coalition of Supporters of Democracy and Good Governance (CSDGG), has declared that the time has come for serious-minded investors in Rivers State to be fished out and encouraged to develop the state through innovative investments. Led by its national president, Gershom Bobmanuel...
The Police Command in Rivers has denied reports that it released three officers accused of kidnapping and extorting 3,000 dollars from two victims in Rivers. The Spokesperson for the command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, clarified the issue in a statement released in Port Harcourt on Saturday. “The attention of...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), says it will revive its 180 tonnes per day Rice Mill at Elele Alimini in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, as part of its efforts to ensure food security in the region. The NDDC Executive Director,...
The Nigeria Navy has handed over 11 artisans arrested on suspicion of planning to construct an illegal refinery to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Port Harcourt on Monday. The Base Operations Officer of Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder Port Harcourt, Cdr. Sa’id Kabir, handed...