[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] The police on Wednesday blocked from traffic major roads passing in front of police formations in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital after reports of attacks on security formations in the neighbouring Imo State. Affected were Moscow Road passing in front of the state command headquarters in Port Harcourt and part of Ikwerre…
Court Workers Down Tools in Rivers
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Court workers in Rivers State on Tuesday locked the gates of the judiciary complex in Port Harcourt as part of actions to execute a nationwide strike called by the Judiciary Staff union of Nigeria, JUSUN that called out its members on strike to demand the implementation of Presidential Executive Order authorizing financial autonomy…
Uniport Lecturer Kidnapped with Journalists
[responsivevoice] The police in Port Harcourt have confirmed the kidnap of a lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt, Jones Ayuwo. Ayuwo was kidnapped in Khana Local Government Area on Sunday evening along with three mediamen, two of them working for Rivers State Television, who were returning from an event in the neighbouring Andoni Local…
Rivers Govt, Butchers War over Unwholesome Beef in Market
[responsivevoice] Rivers State Government has faulted claims by the National Butchers union that unwholesome beef was being sold in markets in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Fred Kpakol, said government has employed enough veterinary doctors and personnel to inspect meat sold in the markets in the state and monitor the movement of livestock in…
Rivers Seeks to Stop Release of Freed 150 Prisoners
[responsivevoice] Rivers State Government has gone to court to stop the release of 150 inmates who had been in prison for over eight years without facing trial. A Rivers State High Court had in December ordered the release of the 150 inmates of the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre after it found out that they had…
NGO Sues Wike as he Awards 8th Flyover Contract, Denies Owing Pensioners
[responsivevoice] A non-governmental organization, Rivers Anti-Corruption Network has sued Rivers State Government at the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt demanding for the documents covering the award of three flyover contracts awarded by the state government to Julius Berger Nigeria PLC. The suit came as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, announced that contract has been…
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…
Protests as Police Kill Tricycle Operator in Port Harcourt
[responsivevoice] Rioters have taken over the streets in parts of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in Port Harcourt after a policeman shot dead a tricycle operator at Rukpokwu on Thursday morning. The rioters have totally shut down economic and social activities along Owerri Road leading up to Rumuokoro Junction by the East-West road as they protested…
Wike to Review Oyigbo Curfew, Doles Out N200m to Families of Murdered Security Men
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said he would meet with the State Security Council on Tuesday to review the 24-curfew imposed in Oyigbo Local Government Area in the wake of disturbances that followed the #ENDSARS protests. This followed calls on the governor to review the curfew, which has caused untold hardship on residents of the…
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