Tag: Port Harcourt
2011: Foreigners In Nigeria Urged To Pray
Foreigners residing in Nigeria have been urged to join their hosts in praying for a successful conduct of the 2011…
NLC Strike: Police Ready To Protect Lives And Property
The Rivers State Police Command has restated its determination to protect lives and property during the three day warning strike…
Retired Police Officers To Be Re-Engaged
The Ministry of Police Affairs says it has concluded plans to re-engage physically fit retired police officers to serve as…
FIBA-Africa Zone 3 Qualifers: Pillars Tackle Hoopers
Nigeria’s basketball Premier League champions, Kano Pillars of Kano will tomorrow tackle Royal Hoopers Basketball Club of Port Harcourt at…
Big Test For NFF —Adokie
Former Nigerian international, Adokie Amaesimaka says Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, is in a difficult situation as the Technical Committee of…
Pillars, Hoopers Shine In Liberia
Nigeria’s NBBF/DSTV Basketball Premier League champions, Kano Pillars and the runners-up, Royal Hoopers of Port Harcourt continued their impressive outing…
National Schools’ Sports Festival: Team Lagos Commended
The Lagos State’s contingent to the just concluded 2010 National Schools’ Sports Festival has been commended for a job well…
Owoseni Slams Nigerian Players Over Flop At Gov’s Cup
Vice President of Nigeria Tennis Federation, NTF, Yemi Owoseni, says Nigerian players disappointed the body with their woeful performance at…
I’m Better Than Keshi — Siasia
Former Nigerian international, Samson Siasia has declared that if anybody is good to handle the senior national team, the Super…
Amnesty Condemns Mass Evictions In Port Harcourt
The rights group, Amnesty International has criticised Nigeria’s government over mass evictions in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Plans for urban…
3 Held Over Killing Of Commissioner’s Mom
Following the killing of the mother of the Rivers State Commissioner for Power,  Mrs. Lucy Wokocha, early yesterday at her…
Gov Amaechi Gives Account Of Steadwarship
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State yesterday gave an account of his stewardship for the past three years at…
AHEAD OF 2011: Governor Raises Alarm Over Importation Of Guns
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has raised an alarm that those who previously sponsored violence in the state…
Governor Amaechi Sues ASUU
As the state branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities join their counterparts nationwide on strike today,the Rivers State…
FIBA-Africa Qualifier: Royal Hoopers Intesify Training
Royal Hoopers Basketball Club of Port Harcourt have moved to Lagos to continue with their preparations for the FIBA-Africa Zone…
FG Approves Funds For Remodelling 4 Airports
The Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Fedelia Njeze, this morning disclosed that the Federal Government has approved money for the remodelling…
Church Tasks Members On Voter’s Card
A Port Harcourt-based church, Abundant Life Mission, has mandated its members to obtain INEC registration cards for the 2011 general…
Fresh Trouble For Henry Okah
Mr. Shawn Abrahams, the prosecutor in the trial of Nigeria’s terror suspect, Henry Okah, has told the Johannesburg court in…
Dolphins Set For New Season
In other to fully be in shape for the league season, Dolphins of Port Harcourt ensured their squad played five…
The Deceit Called TRACON
The recent commissioning by President Goodluck Jonathan of the Total Radar Coverage for Nigeria’s Airspace, known as TRACON, is a…
Falcons Getting Set For AWC
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will play one more friendly game before the final squad for this year’s Africa Women’s…
Babalola, Christy, Others Land In Lagos
Nigerians, who have been camping ahead of the 10th Governor’s Cup Lagos tennis Championship, will hit Lagos today to finalise…
Amnesty Wants Rivers Shooting Probed
The Nigerian government must set up an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the use of firearms by security forces…
LG Trains 300 Youth In Skills Acquisition
The Port Harcourt City Local Government Area in Rivers has trained more than 300 youths in various skills and trades.…
Gov Ameachi Loses Bid To Extend Tenure
A legal action instituted by one Chief Cyprian Chukwu of No. 388 Ikwerre Road, Port Harcourt before a Federal High…
Sustaining Tight Security At Nigerian Airports
The manner security operatives always put up a show at Nigeria’s airports immediately after any security breach in the country…
Jonathan Sends Soldiers To Aba, Traders Call For Emergency
President Goodluck Jonathan has deployed soldiers to Aba, the Abia State capital, South East Nigeria as the state slides into…
Hoopers’ll Be Better Next Season
Ifie Ozaka is the secretary of the Local Organising Committee, LOC , of the just concluded 2009/2010 DSTV Premier League…
Basketball: Pillars Win DSTV Top 8
Kano Pillars have once again proved their supremacy in Nigeria’s basketball with their success at the NBBF/DSTV Super 8, as…
Amaechi Begs NUPENG, PENGASSAN To Shelve Strike
Sequel to the threat by the two oil workers’ unions in Rivers State, South South Nigeria, to embark on strike…