DPR seals 7 Filling Stations at Oyigbo.
The Department of Petroleum Resources DPR on Friday, sealed 7 filling stations in Oyigbo and Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Department maintained that it will not spare petroleum marketers who hide under the guise of buying product above the ex-depot price to sell to the public above the official pump price of […]
Population Commission calls on parents to add their children to the enumeration program.
National Population Commission has called on parent to get their children under 5 years of age, enumerated in the ongoing Local Government Enumeration Demarcation. The Federal Commissioner Supervising National Population Commission in Rivers State, Mrs Gloria Izonfuo, made this call while briefing newsmen at Okrika Local Government Council during the enumeration exercise. According to the […]
Kwankwasiyya movement meet in Rivers State.
The political movement of a former Kano State Governor and Senator, Rabiu Kwankwaso, known as the “Kwankwasiyya Movement” Rivers State Chapter has held meetings in five Local Government Areas of the state. The meetings held in Abua/Odual, Ahoada West, Ahoada East, Andoni & Akuku-Toru under the leadership of Rt Hon Prince Agolia as part of […]
Abara Community issues quit notice to herdsmen.
There was heightened tension on Monday, the 19th of February in Abara in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State as farmers clashed with herdsmen grazing their cattle in the area. It would have been a blood bath between the people of Abara and the Fulani herdsmen as the herdsmen engaged in destruction of the […]
Don Wanny’s CSO killed.
The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of 6 Division, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, yesterday evening revealed how Augustine Agulegbu, aka Nana, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the killed notorious terrorist, Johnson Igwedibia, aka Don Waney, was gunned down in Delta State. He disclosed that Agulegbu was planning to attack security agencies’ […]
Wike visits site of West Africa’s largest mall in Portharcourt, commends investor.
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said that the choice of Portharcourt for the construction of West Africa’s largest supermarket reemphasises the importance of Port Harcourt as an investment destination. The Governor who spoke after inspecting works at the site of the Next Shopping Mall at the Trans-Amadi area of Port Harcourt on Thursday, […]
Rivers state ministry of youth development launches “ChangeTheNarrative” campaign.
The Ministry of Youth Development in Rivers State has launched an ambitious campaign in its drive to change the way in which Youths in the state are viewed across the country and beyond. In a series of tweets on its Twitter handle, the ministry said that the campaign has become a necessity owing to the […]
The town where dead pregnant women are thrown into the evil forest.
It is 2018 and the effects of globalization is being felt at all corners of human development . Technological advancement has in no small measures changed the way man thinks and reasons. It’s effects have made certain cultural beliefs obsolete with many of such practices discarded or abandoned. The import of religions have in no […]
Local Government elections will hold this year – Wike.
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said that Local government election will hold this year. Responding to questions during an interview in a Rythm FM radio program on Saturday “ViewPoint” , the governor said that the election won’t be based on any political endorsement. It will be recalled that upon assumption of office in […]
Civil Liberty Organizations, others protest against SARS in PortHarcourt.
By John Didi A group known as Concerned Rivers People in Collaboration with Civil Liberty Organizations on Friday, 19th January 2018, marched round the streets of Port Harcourt to air their displeasure at the killings by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers State. The protesters who assembled at the Isaac Boro Park headed […]
This is our last battle; we will be finished politically if we lose – Amaechi.
We will be finished politically if we lose
POLITICS, CULTURE AND VIOLENCE IN RIVERS STATE
The alleged discovery of a number of human skulls at the home of the notorious cultist and community leader in Onelga by the men of the Nigerian Army some weeks ago was at best shocking to me . Having spent the last seven years in Port Harcourt, I have seen first hand the carnage perpetrated […]