Aribibia John Fubara, Director with the Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue Service, has been abducted by suspected kidnappers. He was abducted at Okrika Waterfront, near Marine Base, Port Harcourt. Report indicated that the kidnappers, numbered about six, were fully armed. A source hinted that they fired sporadically into the air, carefully identified their target,…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has reacted to claims by elder statesman, Edwin Clark, that he is using his relationship with President Bola Tinubu to intimidate Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State. Wike said Fubara should stand and face the crisis because, according to him, that’s part of the criteria…
The Nigerian Navy has busted an illegal refinery capable of producing over two million litres of Automotive Gasoline Oil, AGO, daily along the Isaka/Ogoloma River in Rivers The operation, carried out by the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, following the order of the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, to eradicate oil…
The Rivers State Government has confirmed two cases of the deadly Mpox infection in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Adaeze Oreh, made this disclosure at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Oreh said the state had already put its Public Health Emergency Operations Centre on high alert to respond to further…
Some parts of Rivers and Bayelsa states will experience months of blackout after vandals destroyed thirteen Transmission Company of Nigeria’s towers along the Ahoada-Yenagoa 132kV Double Circuits. Ndidi Mbah, General Manager of Public Affairs, TCN, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. The TCN urged the governments of Rivers and Bayelsa states to assist it…
There is a heavy security presence across major cities in Nigeria as on August 1 protesters gathered in Abuja, and in Kaduna, Lagos, and Rivers states. Channels Television’s ‘The August Protests’ programme showed videos of protesters who converged across states and were unanimous in their statements that hunger and hardship in Nigeria were their motivations…
A High Court in Port Harcourt on Thursday ordered that the seats of the 25 lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, vacant, pending the determination of a suit. Justice Charles Wali gave the order in Suit No PHC/1512/CS/2024, filed by Victor Jumbo, Speaker, Rivers House Of Assembly, Sokari…
The arrest of two soldiers who were captured on camera torturing a man who was partially naked in a room in Port Harcourt has been confirmed by the Nigerian Army. The soldiers were seen torturing the man with belts in the footage that went viral on Tuesday. Nigerians reacted strongly to it, demanding that the soldiers be detained and…
