Tag: Rivers State
Explosion Rocks Rivers Deputy Governor’s Office
The political situation in Rivers State is getting messy by the day as an improvised explosive device was thrown at…
Police bar Rivers State lawmakers for the second day
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Police in Rivers State for the second day, barred the lawmakers of the Rivers State House…
Sacked Council Boss Vows To Stay In Office
Two persons, Timothy Nsirim the sacked chairman and Mr.Singer Azubuike Singer, Head of Local Government Administration,HLGA, are now claiming the…
Court reinstates sacked council chairman in Rivers State
Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt A Nigerian high Court in the oil-rich city of Port Harcourt,Rivers state has reinstated the sacked…
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President Jonathan, Dame Patience And I
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State explains his fractious relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan to TheNEWS editors In the last…
Amaechi: Battered But Unbowed
Rattled. That is what Rotimi Amaechi should be. Months of enduring body blows from an out-and-out heavyweight that is the…
Why Amaechi is being persecuted —Senator Abe
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt THE Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Magnus Abe has attributed Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s persecution in the…
Exclusive: Why Jonathan, Wife Are Fighting Me —Amaechi
The Governor of Rivers State, southern Nigeria, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that he incurred the wrath of President Goodluck Jonathan…
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Amaechi leaves decision to join APC to Jonathan, Rivers elders
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Chibuike Amaechi of the southern Nigerian state of Rivers has said his final decision to either…
Jonathan, Amaechi fly in same chopper to Okrika
.Security Chokes Okrika for First Lady’s Mother’s Burial Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state was at…
Cops withdrawn from Amaechi’s aides, police deny
Okafor Ofiebor /Port Harcourt Despite the withdrawal last night of Policemen attached to Tony Okocha, the Chief of Staff to…
APC slams Jonathan for fascism in Rivers state
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Jonathan presidency of using Rivers State as a testing ground for creeping…
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…
Police, in new crackdown, stop pro-Amaechi group launch
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Hracourt The Nigerian police in Rivers State has moved to stop the inauguration of a Pro-Governor Chibuike Rotimi…
Labour threatens showdown over Rivers police boss
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Both the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress in the southern Nigerian state of Rivers…
Semenitari condemns police action, Old PDP applauds
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications,Mrs Ibim Semenitari,has said the dispersal of 13,000 teachers by policemen…
Rivers Police stops distribution of job letters to teachers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Thirteen thousand newly recruited teachers by the Rivers State Government were this morning in Port Harcourt, the…
Police seal New PDP office in Rivers, pull down party flag
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt. Barely two hours after Governor Chibuike Amaechi went to the Port Harcourt International airport to receive President…
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…
Shell to negotiate with Nigerian community over oil spills
Shell is to begin compensation talks with thousands of Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were ruined by two massive…
Appointment Of Acting Chief Judge In Order, Says Rivers AG
The Attorney General of Rivers state and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Nworgu Boms has dismissed allegations of constitutional violation by…
Amaechi stirs new controversy over acting chief judge
Okafor Ofiebor /Port Harcourt A new Acting Chief Judge for Rivers State resumed duty today after being sworn in by…
Dame Jonathan grinds another axe with Gov. Amaechi
Wife of Nigeria’s president, Dame Patience Jonathan said on Monday that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Judith, his…
Nigeria: Kidnapped 4 Thai nationals released
Four Thais held in an apparent ransom kidnapping in Nigeria have been freed unharmed, a spokesman for the kingdom’s foreign…
12 Quack Doctors Arrested, Clinics Shut
Twelve quack medical doctors have been arrested and four illegal clinics have been shut down by the Rivers State branch…
Chidi Lloyd granted bail
A Rivers state High Court sitting in Ahoada, has granted bail to Mr Chidi Lloyd, detained leader of the Rivers…
Rivers sends its destitute to home states, plans another
Nigeria’s Rivers state government has sent to their home states, some of the 113 beggars and lunatics removed from the…
Rivers majority leader detained again
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt For the Rivers State House of Assembly majority leader, Chidi Lloyd, his detention experience with the Nigerian…
Rotimi Amechi Before ‘The Diet Of Worms’
By Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi Martin Luther, the Augustinian monk was summoned on April 17th, 1521, by Pappenheim, the marshal of…
Amaechi: ACN condemns expulsion from PDP
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the PDP of being unrelenting in its grim determination to overheat the…