Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The local government election in Rivers State on Saturday was generally peaceful despite the tension that preceded it.There were, however, isolated cases of violence in places like All Progressives Congress, APC office in Port Harcourt, Igwuruta, Elelenwo and Etche. At Igwuruta, Ward 13, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Action Peoples Party, APP, has won 22 out of the 23 chairmanship elections in Saturday’s local government elections. The Chairman of Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, who disclosed this on Saturday in Port Harcourt, however, said that the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow …state of emergency looming The seeming peace in the political family of former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has been shattered and is erupting into a crisis that could lead to a state of emergency. Within a few hours, two factions of the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Federal Government has commenced work on the reconstruction of the 18-km Eleme Junction – Trailer Park section of the East-West Road in Rivers State barely two weeks after the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, visited the site. Umahi had promised that work […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Rivers State civil servants wildly cheered the new governor of the state, Siminalayi Fubara, as he went round the Secretariat complex in Port Harcourt on Thursday, two days after he was sworn in. Everywhere the governor turned, the workers applauded and danced for […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, has said that it has recorded 51 oil spills from its facilities in the Niger Delta this year. This was contained in a report of Shell’s spills incident PORTAL on Tuesday. According to the company, 44 […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow ….As Wike Faults Buhari on Security Former Senate President, David Mark, has declared that he would not be contesting the 2023 presidential election. Mark made the declaration at Etche, Rivers State on Tuesday while inaugurating the 21-kilometre Odufor – Akpoku – Umuoye road […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said that harsh economic realities would not allow the state government to provide free medical services to people in the state. The governor, who was responding to an appeal by the management of the Rivers […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has threatened to acquire a disputed land between Bomu and Lewe communities in Ogoniland and convert it to a mortuary if the people of the feuding communities failed to resolve their differences. The governor made the threat when […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Angry youths of Bonny Island in Rivers State on Thursday attacked journalists on official duty and burnt down the bus conveying them to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited premises. The youths had gathered at the gate of the company where they were […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Passengers along the NTA and University of Port Harcourt route in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital have been going through hell since Wednesday when drivers of commercial buses and taxis pulled off the road. They did so to protest the killing of […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Bonny and Finimah youths on Thursday clashed at the gate of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited over demands for community development grants. Finimah youths were said to have mobilised in front of the gate when Bonny youths got wind of the protest […] More
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