Elders and Youths of Kalabari Wednesday staged a peaceful protest on the major streets of Port Harcourt , southsouth Nigeria, and to Government House to submit their petition against alleged moves to cede five major oil producing communities to Bayelsa state. The peaceful protest which started with a rally at the famous Isaac Adaka Boro [...]
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Two suspected armed robbers were shot dead today on Ada-George Road in the Nigerian oil-rich city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to a Deputy Commissioner of Police ,Thomas Etomi of the Rivers State Police, the suspects were among a four-man robbery gang operating in a black Toyota Corolla salon car with [...]
By Wale Odunsi So there are many more mad people in this country than I thought? So the outlaws in prisons are just a small fraction of those lurking around? So an alleged theft of laptops and phones (sic) has become adequate justification to dispatch fellow human beings to early grave – even in the [...]
Nigeria’s Rivers Police Command has arrested 13 suspects in connection with the alleged killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt, in Aluu community. The suspects included 12 males aged between 20 years and 59 years and a female, Miss Lucky Orji. Parading the suspects before journalists on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the [...]
Justice U. N. Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt , Rivers State , on Monday October 15, 2012 remanded Emonena Blessing Ukiri, a former Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in prison custody. Ukiri is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on charges bordering on [...]
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt There was pandemonium at the Federal Secretariat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, southsouth Nigeria, at about 8 a.m. Tuesday when an unidentified middle-age man bearing Total/ Pass identity card allegedly jumped to death from the 7th floor of a building. The Federal Secretariat is located on the Port Harcourt /Aba [...]
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt One Policeman and a suspected armed robber were shot dead in the early hours of today in Port Harcourt, when a police patrol team was ambushed by suspected armed robbers. Ben Ugwuegbulem,the spokesman for the Rivers State Command said in a statement that the Police anti-robbery patrol team from Nkpolu Police Station [...]
