APC Hails Award Winning Minister

The All Progressives Congress has congratulated the Minister of Transportation, Rt Hon Rotimi Amaechi on his recognition as the public sector icon of the year. The party in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by its Spokesman, Chief Ogbonna Nwuke said it was thrilled by the award conferred on him in Lagos by the Vanguard […]

We’re Not in a Hurry to Lift Curfew in Rivers – Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says his administration is not in a hurry to lift the curfew in the state. The Wike administration imposed the curfew in the wake of dastardly attacks on security formations in the big oil and gas state will remain in place despite sponsored criticism against it. The governor, who […]

Rivers CP Visits Only Survivor Of Elimgbu Station Attack, Weeks After Wife Accused Police Of Abandoning Him

PH – The Rivers State Police command says it will not allow its men to suffer untold hardship in the line of performing their duties. Commissioner of Police in the State, Friday Eboka disclosed this when he led members of his management team to visit Emehuru Onuchukwu, the hospitalized policeman who survived the attack on Elimgbu […]

“My Daughter Contemplating Suicide,” Mother of Raped Rivers Student Cries Out For Justice

The family of a year-one female student of Rivers State College of Health Science and Management Technology is demanding that the Police and the school should not compromise in their investigations over the alleged rape of their daughter by the Head of Department of Dental Surgery and Technician, Princewill Chikakpobi Lemon Gbara, mother of the […]

2023: Zoning Rivers APC Guber Slot to the Riverine is Fair, Equitable – Eze

As tongues continue to wag over the unequivocal restatement of the Minister of Transportation and South-South Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, of his position to support the emergence of a Rivers Governor from the riverine communities in the 2023 elections, erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic […]

“My Daughter Was Only Trying To Get Education,” Mother Of Rivers Hijack Bus Victim Reveals

Portharcourt – The Mother of one of the bus passengers kidnapped on Monday along the Bori axis of Rivers state has revealed that her twenty-two-year-old daughter was on her way to Ken Sarowiwa Polytechnic to pick up her Higher National Diploma (HND) form, when their bus was hijacked by gunmen. The woman, who gave her daughter’s […]

Rivers CP Disbands Tactical Unit Over Personnel’s Unprofessional Conduct

PH – The new Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Eboka Friday on Friday announced the dissolution of the Eagle Crack Squad of the command. The announcement was made this morning after a meeting with his management team. The tactical unit has been notorious for numerous atrocities including extortion, torture, killing and maiming of citizens. […]

Rivers APC crisis: Eze clarifies the import of the Supreme Court’s ruling

As the Supreme Court ruling of Tuesday, February 16, 2021, in Appeal No.: 377/2020 between Igo Aguma V Isaac Abbot Ogbobula & 2 Ors. continue to elicit mixed reactions, conflicting interpretations, and dissenting opinions from law specialists and laymen alike, Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New […]

3 Years After, Rivers Court Sentences Man To Death By Hanging For Murder Of Jumia Delivery Agent

Portharcourt – A High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced a young man to death by hanging for the murder of a delivery agent with an online marketing store, Jumia, in March 2017. The convict, Mr. Sodienye Mbatumukeke was arrested alongside his friends, Mr. Divine Excel Naabe and Miss Joy Eluwa for the murder […]

Rivers Nabs Police Sergeant for Armed Robbery as Bandits Kill 4 Officers, Catholic Priest, 7 Others, Abduct 18

No fewer than 15 people, among them four police officers, and a Catholic priest have been killed by the rampaging bandits in the Northern axis of Nigeria that also abducted 17 other citizens just as a serving police sergeant was nabbed in Rivers State for armed robbery. Police Sergeant, Ibrahim Odege and one Sampson Inomoghe, were […]