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 […]
Man beats six months pregnant wife to death
A lady identified as Barr. Adaeze Destiny Ikpeama has reportedly lost her life to domestic violence. Adaeze was 6 months pregnant when she was beaten to death by her husband, Mr Anthony Ikpeama. A source told TPCN that, since the couple got married in 2014, Mr Ikpeama turned his wife to a punching bag and […]
Rivers state government confiscates imported kpomo container
Two persons have been arrested by the Rivers State Government for the possession of substandard animal hide popularly called Kpomo or canda. It was gathered that government officials intercepted a truckload of suspected substandard kpomo in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area of the state. Addressing journalists on the arrest, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Fred […]
Amaechi acts like he owns Rivers State, can’t singlehandedly produce governor – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike says Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders in the State will meet at the appropriate time and decide his successor. He stated that no one single person has the monopoly to decide where the Governorship position of the party will be zoned to. Governor Wike made the assertion during the grand finale […]
Justice Simeon Amadi confirmed as Rivers Chief Judge
The Rivers state House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Justice Simeon Amadi as the state’s Chief Judge. This is coming after some stakeholders expressed their displeasure that the most senior judge, Justice Joy Akpughunum was overlooked for the position. The house of assembly made this confirmation after the Governor, Nyesom Wike sent in […]
CCTV footage shows moment a lady steals a phone in Port Harcourt
NDDC to commission residential quarters for security officers
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, says it will soon commission a 64-flats residential quarters and administrative block for security personnel in Rivers State. Speaking while inspecting the residential quarters built for senior security personnel, the NDDC Interim Administrator, Mr. Efiong Akwa, stated that the project would add value to the living conditions of security […]
Ten expatriates abducted in Gabon, released in Rivers State after ransom
Appeal Court vacates order stopping Rivers APC from conducting revalidation exercise
Ugochukwu Iwuchukwu An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has vacated an order of interim injunction against APC which was granted by Justice Ben Whyte of Rivers State High Court in favour of One Obuloh Messiah and two others. The three-man panel of the appeal court in their unanimous judgment said the decision to stay […]
Wike: I can walk around entire Rivers state without security
Rivers States Governor, Nyesom Wike on Thursday said despite attempts by agents of the Federal Government to cripple his administration from the onset, he has not disappointed Rivers’ people and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the governance of the State. Wike said he could walk around the entire Rivers State today without security because […]
Petroleum marketers in Rivers deny hoarding fuel, say 95% filling stations have run out of stock
Rivers Judicial Commission of Inquiry ends sitting, strikes out 76 petitions
