Tag: Rivers State
Kidnappers gang-rape, kill student of UNIPORT
A criminal gang which kidnapped three students of the University of Port Harcourt(UNIPORT), on 7 April, gang-raped the female among…
Police exhume corpses of 3 kidnapped UNIPORT students, arrest kidnappers
The bodies of three students of University of Port Harcourt(UNIPORT), kidnapped since 7 April, were exhumed by the police today.
Whale washes ashore in Nigeria dead
A whale has been washed ashore in Bonny Island, in Rivers State. It was dead and decomposing, provoking fears of…
Rivers: Mystery dead fishes found ashore
There is apprehension among fish consumers in Rivers State following the massive death of fishes on the shores of Bonny…
Wike makes U-turn, releases 22 ExxonMobil staff
The Rivers State Government has released the 22 Staff of Exxon Mobil arrested for violating the State Executive Order restricting…
JUST IN: Rivers closes schools, directs religious organisations to restrict activities
The Rivers State Government has closed all schools in the state and directed all religious organisations to restrict their activities…
AIT staff Osademe, wife rescued from kidnapper’s den in Port Harcourt
By Okafor Ofiebor Operatives of the Special Area Police Division, Rumuokoro and the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Squad, have…
Gov.Wike makes 27 important appointments, six are women
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers has sent a list of nine commissioner-nominees to the House of Assembly for approval. He…
Wike’s marching order to RIWAMA boss
The Rivers government has directed the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) to develop a comprehensive plan to rejig the…
Biometrics catches 17500 rogues in Rivers
About 17500 rogue serving and retired civil servants have been exposed in Rivers state by the application of biometrics, as…
Rivers showcases dividends of Wike’s investment in education
Rivers State Government has stated that its investments in education have yielded quality results and improvements in the sector since…
8 reinstated Perm Secs beg Gov Wike for portfolios
Eight permanent secretaries reinstated by the National Industrial Court (NIC) after their sack by Rivers Government are calling on Gov.…
Wike approves N30,000 wage for Rivers workers, no arrears
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has approved the payment of N30,000 minimum wage for civil servants in the state,…
Rivers Commissioner’s instruction to parastatals
As part of his facility tour of parastatals and agencies under his ministry, Rivers Commissioner for Information and Communication, Paulinus…
Grandma bathes two kids with pepper, chain them naked for eating food without permission
A grandma from hell has been arrested by police in Nigeria's southern state of Rivers following reports she gave two…
Cultists in brutal murder of 4 Rivers vigilantes, motorcyclist
Panic has gripped Rumuodogo 1 Community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State as gunmen believed to be members…
My declaration stands: Rivers is a Christian State – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has stated that no level of intimidation or negative propaganda will make him change the…
Lawmakers receive car gifts from Wike after passing 2020 budget
Lawmakers in Rivers House of Assembly are celebrating receipt of car gifts from Governor Nyesom Wike less than 24 hours…
Rivers Vs Bayelsa: How the Soku Oil Wells Dispute Started
Today, Monday 16 December, the dispute over the Soku Oil Fields between Bayelsa and Rivers States was resolved by a…
Court confirms Rivers’ ownership of Soku Oil Wells
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday ruled that Rivers State owns the disputed Soku Oil Wells/Fields located…
Security operatives collude with criminals in Rivers – Govt
The Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, has accused security operatives in Rivers…
Rivers announces restrictions for sanitation tomorrow
Rivers government said the monthly Sanitation exercise will hold on Saturday, October 26, across the 23 Local Government Areas of…
Oil thieves set Agip pipeline ablaze in N/Delta
Unscrupulous people, described as crude oil thieves have set fire on an oil pipeline, belonging to Italian oil giant Agip…
Police rescue another woman from serial killer in Rivers
Another woman narrowly escaped being strangulated by a suspected serial killer in a hotel in Rumuokoro in Obio-Akpor local government…
Port Harcourt killer arrested, victim raises alarm
The police in Port Harcourt Rivers State arrested a murder suspect early on Wednesday after a failed bid to strangle…
Operation Sting: Gov. Wike inaugurates new security outfit
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state on Friday inaugurated new security outfit, named Operation Sting.
Kidnappers snatch another traditional ruler in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The traditional ruler of Omofo, Rundele in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Eze Edison Omeodu…
Read the unique way Nigerian Army marks Day in Rivers
It was an exiting scene on Saturday in some designated places in Obio/Akpor area of Rivers as the Nigerian personnel…
Gunmen abduct senior Anglican priest in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Reverend Canon Bernard Hanson, the Vicar of St Jude’s Anglican Church Odiemerenyi in Ahoada Diocese of the…
Residents say more than 100 killed in pipeline explosion
Residents of Kom Kom in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State where an oil pipeline belonging to the Nigerian…