The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has said that thedecision of the Nyesom Wike’s administration to abandon some of thepeoples’ oriented projects started by the Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi’sadministration is responsible for the state of helpless witnessed inthe state. The APC in a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, ChrisFinebone, said that contrary to claims…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday branded the aim of the terror sect Boko Haram as ‘Fulanisation’ of West Africa and Islamisation of Africa. He urged an immediate and more aggressive approach by the federal government to deal with the current challenge of insecurity across the country brought about by the sect and its allies…
A total revenue of N78.8 billion was generated by the Tin Can IslandCommand of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) from all its activitiesin the first quarter of 2019 as against N76.7 billion in thecorresponding period of 2018. The NCS Area Controller Mohammed Musa made this known in an interviewwith the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
The Joint Taskforce operating in the Niger Delta region, OperationDelta Safe, OPDS, has confirmed the abduction of two expatriatesworking on an oil platform operated by the Niger Delta PetroleumResources, NDPR, in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State. Unknown gunmen had on the early hours of yesterday attacked andkidnapped two expatriates working with the indigenous…
The Nigerian Navy in Port Harcourt says it saved a two-month-old baby and11 others from drowning in Ngo waterways in Rivers. Lt. Ernest Jim, Base Information Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS)Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, made the disclosure on Friday. He said troops on routine patrol of the waterways sighted a capsized boatand immediately intervened to rescue…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince UcheSecondus has called on the Chairman of the Independent National ElectoralCommission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, not to set the country on crisisbecause of inconclusive elections.Secondus stated this, when he led the National Working Committee of PDP topay the Rivers State governor a solidarity visit in…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the negative roles played by the Nigerian Army during the 2019 general elections is the worst in the history of the country, saying that the Nigerian Army’s political interference in the state is the most unfortunate infraction in the nation’s democratic experience. Governor Wike formally requested…
The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) is set to conduct interviews forshortlisted candidates, who applied for recruitment into the servicefrom March 18 to March 23. A statement in Port Harcourt by ASP Juliet Ofoni, the NPS PublicRelations Officer, Rivers Command, disclosed that the six daysexercise would begin at the State Prisons Headquarters, Ikwerre Road. Ofoni said…
Widow of the slain lecturer of Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic and an agentof the Peoples Democratic Party, in Khana Local Government Area, FunkeGberegbe has said that her deceased husband, Dr Ferry Gberegbe was yetto celebrate his conferment of Doctorate Degree before he was killed. The lecturer was shot by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS in…
Hausa _Fulani community in Jalingo, Taraba state capital have sent adistress call on Federal government to take immediate action to stopkillings of their innocent members in Jalingo.The call was made by a community leader,Alhaji Musa Garba who saidHausa_Fulani community in the town are being attacked and killed indifferent locations in Jalingo for the past four…
