Tag: Rivers State
NLC Strike: Police Ready To Protect Lives And Property
The Rivers State Police Command has restated its determination to protect lives and property during the three day warning strike…
Shooting: Sports Council Hunts For Talents
As a way of planning ahead, the Lagos State Sports Council through the State Shooting Association, LSSA, has organised a…
How Siasia Got Eagles’ Job —Green
Chairman, Technical Committee of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Barrister Chris Green, has revealed that the appointment of Samson Siasia, as…
Rivers To Close Down Poorly-Staffed Schools
The Rivers State Government is to close down any public school in the state that does not have the required…
National Schools’ Sports Festival: Team Lagos Commended
The Lagos State’s contingent to the just concluded 2010 National Schools’ Sports Festival has been commended for a job well…
I’m Better Than Keshi — Siasia
Former Nigerian international, Samson Siasia has declared that if anybody is good to handle the senior national team, the Super…
Amnesty Condemns Mass Evictions In Port Harcourt
The rights group, Amnesty International has criticised Nigeria’s government over mass evictions in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Plans for urban…
3 Held Over Killing Of Commissioner’s Mom
Following the killing of the mother of the Rivers State Commissioner for Power,  Mrs. Lucy Wokocha, early yesterday at her…
Gov Amaechi Gives Account Of Steadwarship
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State yesterday gave an account of his stewardship for the past three years at…
AHEAD OF 2011: Governor Raises Alarm Over Importation Of Guns
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has raised an alarm that those who previously sponsored violence in the state…
Arms Importers To Face Hard Times, Vows Task Force PRO
Following the arrest of a driver with a trailer load of arms in Onitsha, Anambra State, and a vessel suspected…
Governor Amaechi Sues ASUU
As the state branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities join their counterparts nationwide on strike today,the Rivers State…
Dolphins Set For New Season
In other to fully be in shape for the league season, Dolphins of Port Harcourt ensured their squad played five…
IBB Again? God Forbid
I became happy when I read ordinary Nigerians’ reactions on the pages of newspapers over the past leaders’ ambition towards…
I Can Floor Jonathan — Dele Momodu
Chief Dele Momodu, publisher, Ovation Magazine has said that he would floor President Goodluck Jonathan in a free and fair…
Babalola, Christy, Others Land In Lagos
Nigerians, who have been camping ahead of the 10th Governor’s Cup Lagos tennis Championship, will hit Lagos today to finalise…
Amnesty Wants Rivers Shooting Probed
The Nigerian government must set up an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the use of firearms by security forces…
Gov Ameachi Loses Bid To Extend Tenure
A legal action instituted by one Chief Cyprian Chukwu of No. 388 Ikwerre Road, Port Harcourt before a Federal High…
Gulder Ultimate Search Starts Saturday
For the next 21 days, millions of television viewers across Nigeria and Africa will be treated to exciting moments of…
Free Kidnapped Children Now
Aba, the commercial nerve centre and capital of Abia State is fast becoming the most dangerous city in Nigeria. The…
12 Days After Kidnap: Police Negotiate Over Five Corps Members
Five Corps members, four female and one male, who were kidnapped on 16 September at about 11.30 p.m. by unidentified…
Hoopers’ll Be Better Next Season
Ifie Ozaka is the secretary of the Local Organising Committee, LOC , of the just concluded 2009/2010 DSTV Premier League…
Amaechi Budgets N1b To Train Ex-Militants
The administration of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has announced plans to it increase by 100 per cent…
Rivers Govt Provides E-Library For Affordable Justice System
As part of efforts to make justice affordable to the people of Rivers State, the state government has announced its…
Basketball: Pillars Win DSTV Top 8
Kano Pillars have once again proved their supremacy in Nigeria’s basketball with their success at the NBBF/DSTV Super 8, as…
Amaechi Begs NUPENG, PENGASSAN To Shelve Strike
Sequel to the threat by the two oil workers’ unions in Rivers State, South South Nigeria, to embark on strike…
Safeguarding Youths On National Service
The vulnerability of members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to danger has again come under sharp focus following…
SOBOMA GEORGE: Suspect’s Wife Raises Alarm
Helen Gladstone, the wife of Emmanuel Gladstone a.k.a Tommy, one of the self-confessed killers of Soboma George, the leader of…
Five Days After The Kidnap: No Word From Corps Members
No word has come from five members of the National Youth Service Corps, four female and one male, who were…
Fireworks In Port Harcourt! As Final 8 Playoffs Dunks Off
The eight clubs that made it to the final-8 playoffs of the Nigeria DStv Premier League have begun hostilities for…