[responsivevoice] A serious gas leak has been reported on a gas pipeline operated by the NLNG/AGIP at Elibrada in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Locals said the leakage began after an explosion was heard. But there has been no fire from the leak, which was shooting onto the air before officials of NLNG…
#EndSARS: Man, 75 Demands N20m Compensation from Police
[responsivevoice] A 75-year-old pensioner, Paul Nyeche Amadi, has demanded that the police authorities pay him N20milion as compensation for the torture and trauma he suffered in the hands of disbanded SARS operatives. Amadi told the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Police Brutality that he was forced to relocate to his maternal home when…
Onne People Picking Up The Pieces After The Storm (Photo)
[responsivevoice] After the ferocious storm that swept through the town of Onne, Eleme Local Government Area, the host community of Nigeria’s second largest seaport on Monday, the people have begun fixing their damaged homes and shops. The storm, which came with the rains felled more than a hundred power pillars and aluminium conductors, which crushed…
Port Harcourt Residents Celebrate First Downpour (Photo)
[responsivevoice] The first heavy rain of 2021 fell in Port Harcourt and its environs on Monday, and created a reason for celebration by its residents. A light shower occurred in Akpor part of the city on Sunday, by about seven minutes given an account by Chukwudi Eke-Ejelam, a resident of the area. But the downpour…
Court Remands Killer Policeman in Prison
[responsivevoice] A magistrate court in Port Harcourt has remanded in a correctional centre the dismissed inspector of police, Uba Christian, who killed the tricycle driver, Edmund Okechukwu two weeks ago at Rukpokwu, near Port Harcourt. The magistrate, A.O. Amadi-Nnah, remanded the dismissed police officer after declining jurisdiction in the case. Christian was charged for killing…
Tragedy, as Boy Drowns During Opobo Boat Regatta
[responsivevoice] One teenage boy got missing on Thursday after the boat in which he and more than 20 other people were performing in an end-of-year boat regatta in Opobo, Rivers State sank. Virtually all other people in the boat were rescued as the boat sank in front of a crowd of thousands of spectators watching…
Rivers Covid-19 Workers Protest Non-Payment of Allowances
[responsivevoice] Members of the Rivers State COVID-19 Task Force have lamented the non-payments of their allowances for six months now. The task force members who took their protests to Government House, Port Harcourt said they had stopped work for nearly two months because of the non-payment of their allowances, and this had truncated the enforcement…
“Go and Die”, Wike Tells Critics
[responsivevoice] The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has asked his critics who have refused to acknowledge the projects his government was executing in the state to ‘go and die.’ The governor was responding to criticisms that he was concentrating his projects in the two urban local government areas of Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor. “If…
Police, Assassins, Kidnappers on the Prowl in Port Harcourt, Kill 4 Abduct 2
[responsivevoice] At least four persons had been killed at the last count in a new wave of killings and assassinations sweeping through Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. Four people were gunned down in different parts of the city since Thursday last week when residents of the city began to notice the strange killings.…
Police Investigate Port Harcourt Stampede Deaths
[responsivevoice] Rivers State Police command has ordered investigation into Tuesday’s stampede in Port Harcourt where two people, a man and a pregnant woman, were crushed to death as an uncontrollable crowd surged to collect Christmas palliatives from a Bitcoin networking organisation. The Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, who confirmed the two deaths, said the…
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