Tag: Rivers State
Bombardier jet: Rivers debunks aviation ministry’s allegations
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Government has denied the allegations by Ministry of Aviation that the documents it has been…
Students rally for Governor Amaechi
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt As the political crisis in the oil-rich Rivers state festers,the the National Association of Nigerian Students, the…
Suspended Rivers Lawmakers Seek Court’s Shield
The 26 members of the Rivers House of Assembly, including the Speaker Otelemaba Amachree, who were yesterday suspended by the…
Targeting Amaechi
Last week’s court ruling on the control of the PDP machinery in Rivers State strips Governor Rotimi Amaechi of his…
Court sacks PDP executives in Rivers state
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Embattled chairman of Nigerian Governor’s Forum, NGF, and Governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Chibuike Amechi, has…
Dividing The Governors
The rumblings in the Peoples Democratic Party get messier as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF is sucked in The crack…
House Leader, Councillors Sentenced
A Port Harcourt High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Southsouth Nigeria, has convicted Emeka Godwin, the…
Crack In The Family
Calculations for the next governorship election in Rivers State threaten the health of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state…
Nigeria attracts $6b investment in Onne Free Trade Zone
Nigeria’s Federal Government said on Saturday that investments at the oil and gas free trade zone in Onne, Rivers, had…
Amaechi vows to protect state from plunderers
Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum and Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has vowed not to succumb to blackmailers, whose…
Amaechi sacks commissioner
Governor Chibuke Amaechi, of Nigeria’s oil producing Rivers State has sacked his Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr Emeka Wogu. To…
Fire ravages market in Rivers
Fire on New Year’s day destroyed five houses near the Ikoku spare parts market in Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria’s…
Amaechi proposes N490b budget
Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Nigeria’s oil rich Rivers State has proposed an aggregate budget of N490.3 billion for 2013. The…
2012 in Review: Nigeria’s Cross River Lead, Others Follow
With 2012 being an Olympic year, one can say much of the action in the track and field events took…
Athletes Wants Games On Annual Basis
The 18th National Sports Festival, NSF tagged “Eko 2012” held in Lagos State may have come and gone but some…
Nigerian born film-maker makes waves in Alaska
For Chinonye Chukwu, growing up Nigerian in Fairbanks was a never-ending commute between two different worlds. Born in Rivers State,…
National Sports Festival: Lagos Boxers Cruise To S/Finals
Having promised to surpass their 7 gold medal feat at the Garden City Games in Port Harcour, Rivers State, Five…
‘Why Yobe Lost Basketball Match To Team Rivers’
A Yobe State male basketball player, Umaru Mohammed, has blamed his side’s loss to their Rivers State counterparts in the…
Nigeria hosts Pan African Parliamentary confab
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A conference to be organized by Pan-African Parliament on African governance platform and promotion of African Union…
Nigerian Sports Festival: Round Up
Ondo female basketball team through to q/finals The Team Ondo female basketball team on Saturday secured a place in the…
Nigerian pregnant woman denied care because of $150
A pregnant Nigerian lady has died because doctors in Port Harcourt insisted the husband must pay N20,000, less than $150,…
Cricket: Lagos, Rivers Land In 2nd Round
Hosts, Lagos State, Rivers and Ogun have qualified for the second round of the cricket event of the ongoing 18th…
ALUU 4: I still feel Lloyd’s presence at home, says dad
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt LLyod Toku Mike,one of the four University of Port Harcourt students lynched by the Umuokiri-Aluu community on…
Nigeria docks 11 suspects in oil theft
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has charged 11 persons on suspicions of illegal dealing in petroleum products at…
Aftermath Of Aluu 4 Killings: UNIPORT Reopens
Authorities of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria, have announced the re-opening of the institution for academic…
Jonathan Asks Amaechi, Dickson End Media War
President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the Bayelsa and Rivers State government to stop the ongoing accusations and counter-accusations in the…
7 members of kidnap gang killed by police
The Nigerian police in Rivers State has confirmed the killing of seven suspected kidnappers during a shoot-out in Kaani, Gokana Local…
4 prisoners escape in Nigerian jail break
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Two prisoners of the Federal Prisons in Ahoada in Nigeria’s Rivers state were killed yesterday in a…
Double celebration at Rivers state carnival
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigeria’s Rivers State Government seeks to make CARNIRIV world’s largest carnival as it formally flags off activities…
2 robbery suspects killed in Port Harcourt
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Two suspected armed robbers were shot dead today on Ada-George Road in the Nigerian oil-rich city of…