IPOB: Businesses open as Port Harcourt residents defy sit-at-home order
Most residents in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, on Monday went about their normal businesses as they defied the sit-at-home order imposed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The sit-at-home order, which was issued by IPOB, is a day set aside to remember Biafrans, who lost their lives during the Nigerian civil war. Roads, stores […]
Wike to contractor: Contract, money were signed in rainy season. Don’t use rain as excuse for execution
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has tasked residents of Saakpenwa-Bori-Kono Road to support the contractor and not frustrate the completion of the project in 14 months. In his address at the flag-off ceremony for the construction of the 17.2km long and 22.3m wide dual carriageway on Friday, the Governor said his administration is determined to deliver […]
APC blasts Wike, PDP for disrespecting ‘national heroes’… Says defected former chairmen lack political values
Gunmen attacks in Rivers: the real preventive measures
Insecurity: Security expert calls for nationwide curfew, says Rivers curfew most effective to tackle attacks
Traffic build up in Port Harcourt as statewide curfew is set to begin
Rivers gov’t didn’t pay my son a dime for homecoming – Mama Burna
Wike reviews night-time curfew in 23 LGAs
Gunmen kill seven police officers in Rivers State
Unknown gunmen have killed no less than seven police officers in Rivers State. This is despite a night-time curfew imposed on the the state by Governor Nyesom Wike. The gunmen attacked the Rumuji police station in Emohua Local Government Area, shooting one officer dead and beheading another. They also attacked a C4i checkpoint along the […]
Rivers state announces deadline for NECO registration
INEC commences expansion of access to polling units in Rivers state
In line with the guidelines issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters, Abuja, INEC Rivers State has commenced activities for the expansion of access to Polling Units in Rivers State. In a statement signed by Mark Usulor for the state’s Electoral commissioner, he disclosed that staff of the Commission have been deployed to […]
Rivers Police deploy 17000 officers ahead of LGA election, restrict movements
The Rivers State Police Command has rolled out directives ahead of the forthcoming Local Government Elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, April 17, 2021. This was issued in a press release, yesterday, by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Nnamdi Omoni. Omoni said that a total of seventeen thousand five hundred personnel have been […]