Tag: Port Harcourt
Petrol price: Port Harcourt petrol stations reluctant to sell at N125
Majority of Petroleum products dealers in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital, have not adjusted the prices.
Rivers gov’t approves sale of stock exchange building
The Rivers State Executive Council on Sunday evening approved the public sale of the abandoned 17- Storey Stock Exchange Building…
EFCC releases list of 7 arrested Bitcoin scammers
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal Office, has arrested seven suspected internet fraudsters.
Soldier’s wife beats stepdaughter to death over plantain
The wife of a soldier with 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt has been arrested, along with…
Monarch leads protest over ruins in Rivers community
Paramount ruler of Uju community in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chief Christopher Amanah, has led chiefs and…
Wike meets traders, residents over proposed bridges
Rivers governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on traders and residents to cooperate with the Rivers State Government to deliver…
Rape of male children rises in Port Harcourt
Alarm has been raised about consistent increase in the number of male minors raped by adult sexual perverts in Rivers…
More than 1,200 women raped in Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt, Nigeria's oil city is in the throes of a rape crisis. The figures for admissions to the little…
We lack toilet facilities, Port Harcourt Jetties, shop owners cry out
As Nigerians celebrated World Toilets Day yesterday, the sanitary state of the toilet facilities in most of the loading Jetties…
Revealed: Port Harcourt named after a rapist
Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State derived its name from a British rapist and paedophile, Lord Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
CCTV captures alleged killer of yet to be identified lady
The viral video of a man who allegedly killed a lady in a hotel room in Port Harcourt is currently…
Video: Women protest in Port Harcourt over serial killings in hotels
Hundreds of women in Rivers State on Wednesday morning took to the streets to protest the serial killings of young…
EFCC smashes N2b Ponzi scheme in Port Harcourt, owner on the run
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office have arrested 19 staff of a fake…
Another Corpse of suspected sex worker dumped on Port Harcourt Road
A decomposing body of a woman suspected to be sex worker has been found lying at Aggrey road in the…
7 oil thieves jailed, vessel seized
Justice A. T Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced seven oil thieves…
Photo News: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Visits Port Harcourt
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday paid an official visit to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.…
Varsity professsor murdered in his Port Harcourt residence
A Professor at the Rivers State University (RSU), formerly Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt, Prof.…
Voters’ apathy in Port Harcourt
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Elections have started in Rumuagholu in Obio-Akpor local government areas. At Abonnema in Akuku-Toru as at 9am…
NNPC to establish 2 additional refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has plans to establish 100,000-barrels-per-day brownfield refineries in Port-Harcourt and Warri to…
Real Madrid football Academy to take off Monday in Port Harcourt – Gov Wike
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Tuesday said the foundation-laying ceremony for the proposed Real Madrid Football Academy would take…
Fifth batch of 136 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrive Port Harcourt
The fifth batch of 136 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport in the early hours of Tuesday,…
Nothing will disrupt PDP convention – Gov. Wike
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership will not accept anything likely to disrupt its…
Importers, exporters decide port to use – NPA
Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Usman says the Authority does not have constitutional or moral right to…
Update: Chikamso’s Murderer Caught In Jos
Ifeanyi Dike, the Uniport student who murdered his 8-yr-old neighbor and harvested her private parts has been captured in Jos.
IPOB members jubilate over bail granted Kanu
Spontaneous jubilations erupted in many parts of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital immediately news filtered in that Nnamdi Kanu,…
Anxiety as ‘Strange black soot’ falls in Port Harcourt
Nigerian city of Port Harcourt used to be known as “The Garden City” because of its soaring palm trees and…
Man arraigned for killing DSS officer
Jonkin Chibuzor, who is the suspected leader of a kidnap gang in Rivers State, Jonkin Chibuzor, was on Friday arraigned…
Robbers attack GTB in Port Harcourt
A suspected robbery gang on Monday stormed the branch of the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) along Shell RA Bus Stop…
APC ward chairman murdered in Port Harcourt
Another member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emmanuel Eluozu, from Obor village of Obuozo, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local Government area has…
Traditional ruler’s son kidnapped in Port Harcourt
Prince Fortune Obumgbada, son of the paramount ruler of Rumualogu community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, has…