Rivers State

The Rivers State Government has directed the immediate release of five hundred million naira grant to the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education to enable it continue its transformation programmes. Governor Wike announced the directive during the 37th Convocation Ceremony...

File Photo The fear of explosion has gripped residents of Eneka Community in Obio-Akpor local government area of Rivers State because of the ruptured petroleum products high-pressure pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, which was gushing out...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A minute silence was observed in honour of Professor Tamunoemi Sokari David-West, who passed at the age of 83 on Monday, November...

Getty Images The federal government says it is determined to continue to extract over 35,000 barrels per day of crude oil output lost to a community dispute in the Niger Delta region. A dispute between Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...

A suspected serial killer, Gracious David-West, 39, arrested by the Police, has admitted killing at least seven women in hotels in Lagos State, Owerri in Imo State and Port Harcourt in Rivers State. Newsmen report that the suspect was...

A Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the federal government to publish names of the 67 Nigerians ‘illegally’ detained and held incommunicado by the Nigerian Navy and Police since last year. He said the detaining authorities have...

Some unidentified gunmen had on Saturday murdered three soldiers in the Obonoma community in the Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. The gunmen, who reportedly dressed in military camouflage, invaded the Samson Jack military checkpoint in the community...

58 governorship candidates in Rivers State on Friday declared their support for the re-election of the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in the forthcoming poll. This candidates also accuse the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission...

The lawmaker representing Rivers South-East Senatorial district, Magnus Abe, on Friday claimed that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi once asked him to bomb the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Port Harcourt, the state capital. He...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed what its next step would be if the All Progressive Congress (APC) win an appeal of the court judgement barring it from participating in the forthcoming elections in Rivers State. INEC’s Resident...