Tag: Port Harcourt
NEMA confirms fire outbreak near Port Harcourt refinery
Umesi Emenike, the South-South Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has confirmed a fire incident near the…
Let Jonathan rescue abducted school girls now, says Soyinka
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka,has lashed out at President Goodluck Jonathan administration for its inability to rescue…
DSS arraigns kidnappers of Archbishop Kattey
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three men suspected to be the kidnappers of Bishop Ignatius Cosby Ogborun Kattey, the Anglican ArchBishop of…
Obasanjo Receives Rousing Welcome In Port Harcourt
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Former President Olusegun Obasanjo received a rousing welcome on Monday when he arrived Port Harcourt International Airport,…
Nigeria: High Court bombed in Port-Harcourt
Ahoada East High Court in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State in southern Nigeria was razed today after a…
Court orders police, bank pay for torture, unlawful arrest
A Nigerian High court in Oyigbo, Rivers state, has ordered the police and Main Street bank to pay N5 million…
6 pregnant girls rescued in raid of baby factory
Nigerian police have raided a baby factory in the oil city of Port Harcourt and arrested a woman accused of…
Swiss hotel opens, optimistic about Nigeria’s tourism potential
Swiss International, a-Switzerland-based global brand in hotel and resort management, on Monday said Nigeria was among the fastest growing tourist…
Amaechi rallies citizens against jackboot reign in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Hacourt After repeated crackdown by the Nigeria police on peaceful assembly in Rivers state, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi…
Oil Spill: Shell offers to pay Nigerian community $50m
The Shell Petroleum Development Company has offered to pay N7.5 billion, about $50m to the indigenes of Bodo community, Gokana…
Kidnapped Bishop Kattey: Clergy Council vows not to pay ransom
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three days after the abduction of ArchBishop of the Niger Delta Province, and Bishop of Niger Delta…
Archbishop Kattey kidnapped by gunmen
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Most Rev Ignatius Ogboru Kattey, the Dean, ArchBishop and Bishop of Niger Delta North Anglican Communion of…
Man charged with sodomy
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigerian police in southern Nigerian state of Rivers has arraigned a 30 year old suspect, Godface…
Prison warder kills driver, injures pastor
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A taxi driver was shot dead by a trigger-happy prison warder in the suburb of Port Harcourt…
Court grants bail to ex-Nigerian presidential aspirant
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted the former presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, Chief…