Tag: Rivers State
Wike planning to revoke ownership of our secretariat – Atiku Campaign
The Atiku Campaign Council said it has incontrovertible information that Governor Wike has finalized plans of making the revocation of…
Wike seals Atiku/Okowa campaign office in Port Harcourt
Wike had earlier on Friday blasted the Senator Lee Maeba, the Chairman of Atiku Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State…
Rivers: Udoh brothers sentenced to death for murder of Radio Nigeria staff
The two defendants who are indigenes of Akwa Ibom State were said to have picked late Okorie along East-West road…
Rivers LG Chair threatens war over return of Illegal oil refiners
Local Government chairpersons in Rivers had some months ago embarked on destruction of the illegal refining sites in their areas…
Residents of 2 Port Harcourt communities cry for police protection
Gunmen had on Monday night at about 8pm abducted a woman after shooting sporadically into the air at Road 10…
Rivers: Gunmen intercept car, abduct woman
The eyewitness said attempt by the driver to out maneuver the suspected kidnappers failed as her Lexus SUV plunged into…
Attack on CJN: A baseless and needless political machination
I had no personal thoughts to suggest that the Honourable CJN had made a mistake that would give his attackers…
Rivers: Gunmen abduct 2 women from Pharmacy store
Eyewitness account said an attendant at the Pharmacy Attendant was one of the victims. He said the second victim was…
PDP Campaign Council raises alarm over plot against Atiku in Rivers
The Campaign Council said the action was aimed at ensuring that the people of the State do not cast their…
Rivers: Vandals destroy 6 transmission towers, kill vigilante operative
The hoodlums vandalized the 330kV DC Afam – Onne Transmission Line in Gbake community of Ogoni, and cut down four…
Rivers: ADP, ADC members excited by Court of Appeal judgments
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice Turaki Mohammed had invalidated the nomination of five…
Rivers 2023: Deafening silence amid intimidation
What is happening in our state is abnormal and certainly not politics, but an unprecedented rape of our values.
Rivers: Buhari, Peter Obi, Bayero others to commission Wike’s projects
Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt President Muhammadu Buhari, Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, HRM Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano…
12 arrested over attacks on Atiku’s supporters in Rivers
Police said the 12 suspects are undergoing Investigation and those found culpable among them will be arraigned in court.
How we were attacked while pasting posters in Rivers – Atiku supporters
They claimed that they were attacked by a serving Councilor and over 30 PDP supporters who are anti-Atiku Abubakar in…
Court sacks 3 NASS candidates of Labour Party in Rivers
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt on Friday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC…
Nigerian Army worried over low interest in recruitment from Rivers
COAS was concerned that Rivers State was unable to fill its recruitment quota into the Nigerian Army.
Wike: “I’ll resign as governor if …”
Wike said it was not in his character to make a promise to help anyone and to renege on the…
Panic over gas explosion in Port Harcourt
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Explosion at a gas plant in Jephthah Secondary School, Mercy Land axis of the East West road,…
Gunmen hijack bus, abduct passengers in Rivers
According to an eyewitness, the commercial bus was returning to Port Harcourt from Owerri on Tuesday night when it was…
Gov. Wike under fire, accused of unleashing thugs on Rivers
Governor Nyesom Wike has been heavily criticized over his recent rash of massive appointments of 'advisers and liaison officers' without…
Oil spills: Protesters demand N40m for each member of Rivers community
the protesters also stopped companies working at the identified oil spill sites from working over alleged failure of Shell Petroleum…
Rivers: Again, gunmen abduct passengers on Emohua-Kalabari road
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Yet to be identified gunmen on Tuesday night attacked a vehicle along the now notorious Emohua/Kalabari road…
4 passengers abducted in Rivers regain freedom
DCP Muhammed Shehu assured that the Police were on the trail of the kidnappers, while efforts were on to secure…
Wike under fire over kidnappings on failed Emohua-Kalabari road
The latest of such kidnappings was on Saturday, September 17, along the road in Rivers State when gunmen hijacked a…
Civil Defence operatives nab 3 oil thieves in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in River have arrested 3 suspects with a…
NPDC must take responsibility for Sangama gas leakage – Bonny LG
Shell had claimed that it cannot act as the affected facility has been sold to Nigeria Petroleum Development Company Limited…
Gunmen kill driver, abduct 8 passengers in Rivers
The Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Onengiyeofori George, confirmed the attack on the bus, the killing of the driver,…
Gunmen in speedboats abduct traditional ruler in Rivers
Opoto was abducted over the weekend while traveling along with members of his council of chiefs while through the Abisse…
Tanker explosion: 7 dead, many battling for survival in Rivers
According eyewitnesses, an Anti- Bunkering Team of the Police in Rivers had intercepted the trucks loaded with illegally refined products…