Former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has said he was nearly shot by Governor Nyesom Wike’s security aides yesterday.
Wike had yesterday claimed he escaped assassination attempt as soldiers and men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, in the convoy of Amaechi, attacked his...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Saturday escaped unhurt as Special Anti-robbery Squad Operatives and soldiers of the Nigerian Army in the motorcade of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi attacked his convoy.
The governor who was on project inspection was...
A major crisis appears to have rocked the Pan-Niger Delta Forum as a crack team of policemen on Thursday blocked two main entrances to the group’s Presidential Hotel conference venue in Port Harcourt.
The heavy presence of security operatives on the road leading to the venue prevented some...
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61-year-old Mrs Sambra Briggs from Abonnema in Rivers State has welcomed a set of triplets. The story was shared on Facebook by Comr Dickson David Senibo.
He wrote ''GOD IS STILL DOING MARVELOUS THINGS. Today the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Adeboye, Oyedepo and Ibiyeomie performed another...
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) protest turned violence in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
While the APC is aggrieved that two of their elected members in the state House of Assembly are yet to be sworn in, the supporters of the PDP claim they were out to...
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Militant group, Aggrieved Youth Movement, AYM, has warned Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups not to come close to Rivers State.
Leader of the group, ‘General’ Don Waney, said he was ready to surrender his arms and ammunition and embrace the amnesty offered by Governor Nyesom...
A staff bus conveying fourteen workers of Nest Oil, an oil company in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State has been diverted by unidentified gunmen in the area.
The Nestoil workers were kidnapped in the early hours of Friday around Omoku-Elele link road.
It was gathered...
The Rivers State Government yesterday accused former Governor Chibuike Amaechi of embezzling N3 trillion belonging to the State in eight years.
The government allege that Amaechi left ‘most abandoned projects in the history of the State.’
The State Commissioner for Information, Dr...
A video clip showing how a group of policemen brutalized a man in Graceland, Oyibo, Rivers state has gone viral on the social media.
The clip, shared on instablog9ja on Sunday revealed two policemen torturing a man without his shirt on and uttering ‘Enter this motor’ while the man refused...
Aluu community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, has yet suffered a brutal attack as gunmen suspected to be members of a cult group allegedly gunned down 23 persons, including a nursing mother.
According to Vanguard, the gunmen reportedly members of Greenlanders cult invaded Aluu...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will conclude the suspended elections in Rivers, Imo, Kogi and Kano states not later than July, 31, 2016.
This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, the INEC Director, Voter Education and...
The Executive Governor of Rivers state, Barrister Nyesome Wike has told the residents of Rivers state that there is more to come on the dividends of democracy in his administration. The governor made this statement on May 29, democracy day, in reflection of his one year in office.
On his...
Rivers State Governor, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike has declared that the state is not celebrating democracy day because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has destroyed the foundation of democracy by plotting to allocate legislative seats in the state. The governor also...
Chisom Okafor, 11, has been rescued by operatives of the Rivers State Police Command from four men suspected to be ritual killers.
Chisom’s abductors had taken him away on May 1, 2016 after a friend to his father, Okorie, sent him on an errand. Chisom, who hails from Ndimoko community in...
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The Rivers State Senior Secondary Schools Board has suspended the principal of Community Girls Secondary School, Ogbakiri Chibuzo Enyinda indefinitely for allegedly diverting WAEC registration fee meant for thirty-five students to his personal use.
Chairman of the Board, David Briggs...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has approved the sponsorship of 200 less-privileged Rivers youths to Israel for vocational training.
Speaking at the launch of the ‘Win A Trip to Israel, WATTI, promo organised by the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, NCPC, on Friday, Wike said that...
Unknown gunmen have killed about 17 persons at Ula- Upata and Edoha in Ahoada west local government area of Rivers State.
According to DailyTrust, An eye witness said the gunmen invaded Ula-upata community at about 1.00pm and killed 12 persons and later came back at 9.00pm to killed another two...
Nigerians are reacting to the death of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, who was murdered during last Saturday’s Rivers legislative election.
Okonta Samuel Dumebi , an orphan, who hailed from Illah in Delta State, was on duty at Ahoada West Local Government Area where he and two of...
According to the Chairman, Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro. Felix Obuah, Nigeria's Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Senator Magnus Abe and Dr Dakuku Peterside should be immediately arrested and prosecuted over Saturday’ s poll fiasco in the state.
In a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has suspended electoral processes in the last Saturday's re-run parliamentary elections in Rivers state owing to various electoral violence.
Director of Voter Education Publicity of INEC, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, gave the following reasons for the...
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