Tag: Rivers
New Rivers CP assumes duty
CP Eboka Friday has resumed duty as the new Commissioner of Police for Rivers State Police Command.
Rivers records 60th COVID-19 death, confirmed cases hit new high
Nigeria jumped from daily 300 plus COVID-19 cases to 550 on Tuesday, with Lagos logging 219, taking its total to…
Rivers traders lament hike in food prices
Some traders at the popular Rumuomasi market in Port Harcourt, Rivers, on Tuesday, decried hike in prices of foodstuff, attributing…
Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River inaugurate anti-human trafficking task force
Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River States this week inaugurated a task force team in order to check and curb…
Wike owing Rivers pensioners for four years, shuns letters of appeal
Pensioners in Rivers State have appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike to pay four-year pension arrears and gratuities owed them to…
Rivers: Police deny keke driver died in its custody
The Rivers State Police Command has denied that a Keke Driver died in its custody, at Woji Estate Police in…
Wike acted illegally suspending council chairmen:CRC
Governor Nyesom Wike acted illegally by suspending the chairman of Abua-Odua local Government Council, the second council boss to be…
62-year-old UK returnee is second COVID-19 patient in Rivers
The identity of the second Coronavirus case recorded in Rivers State is a 62-year-old returnee from UK who is also…
Coronavirus lockdown: 100 arrested in Rivers, prosecuted
Over 100 people have been arrested and arraigned at the Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State over violation…
Coronavirus: Rivers Inter-ministerial Committee Activates Social Media Platforms
The 5-man Rivers State Inter-ministerial Committee on Enlightenment and Awareness Creation on coronavirus says in continuation of its aggressive campaign,…
Minimum wage: Wike gets 7-day ultimatum
The Organized Labour in Rivers State has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Rivers State government to meet up its…
Commercial taxi drivers want Rivers govt to call taskforce officials to order
Commuters groan as the peaceful protest by Commercial Taxis and Bus Owners in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State, capital against…
Austria to partner with Rivers State
Commercial Counsellor, Austrian Embassy in Nigeria, Mr Guido Stock, has stated that the Austrian Government through the country's private companies…
Wike speaks about successor in 2023
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has disclosed that he will only support a candidate who has the capacity to govern…
MOSOP replies Rivers govt, says Ogoni communities aiding oil pipe vandals
President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Dr Legborsi Pyagbara ,has expressed regrets that at the…
Two sent to prison in Rivers for illegal dealings in oil
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced Michael Adamu to two years imprisonment for dealing…
We’ll not permit proliferation of Vigilante in Rivers – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that the State Government will not permit the proliferation of vigilante groups, stating…
How forces of darkness invaded Rivers during governorship poll – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said that forces of darkness invaded the state and attempted to rob the…
End insecurity in Rivers or reject another oath of office, Peterside charges Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has again been charged to buckle his belt and fight insecurity in the state against…
4 abducted NEMA workers rescued in Rivers
The Police in Rivers say they have secured the unconditional release of four abducted staffers of the National Emergency Management…
Police arrest 4 suspected cultists in Rivers
The Police Command in Rivers has arrested four cult kingpins suspected to have masterminded incessant cult wars in Rumuolumeni, Obio/Akpor…
Rivers Govt orders AG to prosecute owner of collapsed 7-storey building
In the implementation of the recommendations of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the collapsed 7-storey building in Port Harcourt,…
Atiku: Wike overcame anti-democratic forces to win re-election in Rivers
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last election, Atiku Abubakar has said the Rivers State…
Court throws out AAC suit seeking to stop collation of results in Rivers
The Federal High Court in Abuja has thrown out a suit seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC…
Rivers boils as police disperse protesters with teargas
The police in Port Harcourt on Friday dispersed both pro-APC/AAC and Pro-PDP supporters with teargas as both groups were marching…
INEC releases timetable for Rivers Supplementary election, collation of guber results
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday released the timetable for the supplementary election and collation of governorship results…
7 of 15 kidnapped passengers released in Rivers
Seven out of about 15 passengers kidnapped last Sunday at the Omerelu-Ubima axis of the Ikwerre Local Government Area of…
PDP rejects suspension of electoral processes in Rivers
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the suspension of all electoral processes in Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly…
INEC suspends electoral process in Rivers
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday suspended the electoral process in Rivers State.
Election peaceful in Rivers – Amaechi
Former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has described the Governorship and State…