PDP cancels presidential campaign rally in Rivers over attacks on members
Florence Uwaeme The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has cancelled its presidential campaign rally in Rivers State. The Rivers chapter of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council said on Monday that its candidate Atiku Abubakar would no longer hold the scheduled rally in Rivers. Senator Lee Maeba, the chairman of Rivers PDP PCC at a press conference […]
Gunmen attack Atiku’s campaign DG in Rivers
Florence Uwaeme Gunmen on Thursday attacked Dr Abiye Sekibo, the Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State. Gunmen dressed in police uniform opened fire on Sekibo’s vehicle (Land Cruiser) bullet proof jeep at Rainbow town in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Sekibo had gone to inspect the venue of […]
Rivers to join old naira notes suit against FG
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has commended the Supreme Court of Nigeria for saving democracy by halting the Central Bank from banning the use of the old naira notes of N200, N500 and N1000 after February 10th 2023. The governor said the intervention of the Supreme Court is timely because there are some elements […]
Police invade meeting of Atiku’s supporters in Port Harcourt, arrest scores
No less than 30 supporters of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar have been arrested by the police in Rivers State. An eyewitness said the supporters were arrested during a meeting on Sunday in GRA Port Harcourt. According to him, armed police officers in about 6 Toyota Hilux marked Intelligence […]
Rivers Bank customers lament lack of cash, threaten protests
Tina Amanda Some bank customers have decried the unjust behaviour of commercial banks in Port Harcourt for denying them access to the bank premise to collect their money. Some bank customers who expressed their frustration to our correspondent that went to monitor the scarcity of cash situation in some areas of Port Harcourt lamented they […]
Thugs attack APC, SDP campaigns in Rivers
Florence Uwaeme Less than 24 hours after the home of APC National Assembly candidate for Ikwerre/Emuoha Federal Constituency, Ezemonye Ezekiel-Amadi, in Omerelu, Rivers State, was burnt by thugs, the campaign trains of the Social Democratic Party SDP Governorship candidate, Senator Magnus Abe and that of All Progressives Congress APC’s Tonye Cole came under attack by […]
OSPAC operatives shoot man dead after collecting N25, 000 bail
Tina Amanda Some members of a local vigilante group known as OSPAC in Omademe, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, have allegedly shot one Godspower Dimkpa to death, a native of IPO 2, after collecting the sum of 25,000 naira as bail. The incident which took place on Thursday 26, January, comes barely forty-eight […]
Tonye Cole’s call for state of emergency ‘reckless’, plot to stall election – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party has criticized the governorship candidate of the APC, Mr. Tonye Cole for calling on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State. The PDP said in a statement in Port Harcourt that the uncharitable call by Cole has shown how unprepared the APC is to face the […]
INEC debunks redeploying suspicious assistant electoral officers to Rivers
Brave Dickson The Independent National Electoral Commission has debunked an allegation that it redeployed some suspicious assistant electoral officers to Rivers State. INEC refuted the allegation in a statement signed on behalf of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner by Mark Usulor who is the commission’s HOD, Voter Education & Publicity. According to the statement: “The […]
Shell begins repair on illegal tappings on pipeline in Rivers
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria Limited, said it has started repair works on the illegal tapping point discovered on the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) in Nonwa-Uedume Community in Tai local government area of Rivers State. It would be recalled that a 2km illegal pipeline said to have been operated on Shell’s TNP […]
2022: Rivers NDLEA arrests 312 suspects, convicts 119, seizes 2.332 tonnes of hard drugs
Brave Dickson The Rivers State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it arrested 312 suspects in the year 2022. The command also said it secured the conviction of 119 drug offenders and seized 2.332 tonnes of hard drugs. A statement made available to our correspondent through the command’s Spokesman, Emmanuel Ogbumgbada said, […]
Factional Rivers NYCN decries political attacks, slams CP over comments
