The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the electoral process in Rivers State.
Read More »Nurse Arrested For Helping Pregnant Girls Sell Their Babies
37-year-old Kelechi Okamgba, a Port Harcourt based nurse, has been arrested for preying on pregnant young ladies, by housing them till delivery and facilitating the sale of their babies. Her game in which she takes a cut between N70,000 and N80,000, however, came to an end on March 19, when men of the Rumuolumeni Police Station, stormed her ‘baby factory’. …
Read More »Voodoo!!! Rivers Community Chief Confesses To Killing Youth Through Diabolical Means
An old chief was beaten mercilessly and disgraced by the youths in Ebukuma community in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State on allegations of being a wizard.
Read More »Governor Wike stakes N200 million on killers of 16 in Omoku
The Rivers State government has placed a reward of N200 million to track killers of 16 persons, including women and children, who were returning from New Year cross-over in Omoku.
Read More »New Year Day Mayhems: Scores injured, killed in Rivers, Kaduna, Kwara
Not less than 20 persons have been reportedly murdered by gunmen who went house-to-house in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni local government area and other adjoining villages killing and in some instances wiping out an entire family.
Read More »Why I sacked my Cabinet – Wike
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers said the dissolution of the State Executive Council was to ensure better performance of the machinery of government. The governor stated this on Sunday at a Thanksgiving service over the victory of Mr Evans Bipi, the Majority Whip of the State House of Assembly, in the rerun election for Ogu/Bolu state constituency in the House of …
Read More »INEC says it can only conduct Rivers election under a conducive environment
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had always been ready to conclude the suspended re-run parliamentary elections in Rivers, but subject to conducive environment for the exercise.
Read More »APC calls for the removal of Justice Ndu, Wali from Ethics Committee of NJC
By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has noted with shock the recent appointment of two well-known PDP sympathisers, foot soldiers and close associates of Gov. Nyesom Wike as members of the 10-man Judicial Ethics Committee of the National Judicial Council (NJC) with a mandate to review the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers in …
Read More »APC Blasts Wike, PDP for Using Insecurity to Delay Legislative Rerun Election
——-Alleges attack on Ogoni community and running down of Rivers State The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has berated the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State under the watch of Chief Nyesom Wike for engineering and promoting insecurity as a strategy to scare the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from fixing a date for the long-overdue …
Read More »ND Avengers shift to Rivers State, bomb NNPC pipeline in Eleme
The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Wednesday announced the blowing up of a Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipeline at Eleme in Rivers State. With this development, the militant group appears to be shifting its sabotage activities from Delta State to Rivers State. The NDA claimed responsibility for the action on its Facebook page NDavengers: “By 3.00 am, yesterday, strike …
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