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FG offers free ride as P/Harcourt-Aba train service debuts
The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated train operation on the Port Harcourt-Aba rail line for use by members of the public with four days free ride. The Minister of Transportation, Senator Said...
1st May 2024
JUST IN: FG flags off P'Harcourt-Aba train service
The Federal Government on Tuesday flagged off commercial train operations on the Port Harcourt-Aba rail line for use by members of the public. The commencement of the train service has previously been...
30th April 2024
Rivers PDP Ward suspends Rep loyal to Fubara
The Peoples Democratic Party in Ngor, Ward 1 in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State has suspended the member representing Andoni/Opobo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Aw...
30th April 2024
Rivers wedding guests beat policewoman to death, 16 arrested
It was a tragic scene when a group of youths travelling for a wedding outside Rivers State attacked and hacked a female Police Inspector, Mrs Christiana Erekere, to death at her duty post in Taabaa Po...
30th April 2024
Travellers beat Rivers policewoman to death
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command said its men have arrested 16 suspects in connection with the murder of a female inspector in front of Taabaa Police Station in Khana local government are...
29th April 2024
Political chess: Wike, Fubara resume Rivers supremacy battle
DENNIS NAKU reports on the latest power struggle between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, over the political control of the sta...
29th April 2024
Rivers explosion: Governors forum seeks safer means of transporting petroleum products
The Nigerian Governors Forum has said discussions are advancing among the 36 state governors and strategic federal agencies in the oil and gas industry over the adoption of safer methods of transporta...
28th April 2024
Let's save the soul of Rivers, Fubara tells Odili, Rivers elders
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has lamented that there is a fierce fight over the soul of the state to destroy it but noted that only the well-meaning persons who are standing firmly with h...
28th April 2024
Pregnant woman, four others killed, 120 vehicles burnt in Rivers tanker explosion
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has described as very unfortunate the fire incident caused by a tanker conveying premium motor spirit otherwise known as petrol which burnt motorists and comm...
28th April 2024
Rivers tanker explosion avoidable - Fubara
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has described as very unfortunate the fire incident caused by a tanker conveying Premium Motor Spirit otherwise called petrol which burnt motorists and commut...
27th April 2024
Monarch, 42 others acquitted over Rivers DPO’s murder
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and acquitted a traditional ruler, Kelvin Anugwo, and 42 others standing trial for the murder of the late divisional police officer of the Ahoada E...
27th April 2024
UPDATED: Five confirmed dead, 70 cars burnt in Rivers tanker explosion
Five people have been confirmed dead and over 70 cars burnt in the tanker explosion at the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers State on Friday night. PUNCH Online earlier reported that no fe...
27th April 2024
Court adjourns case seeking to sack 27 pro-Wike lawmakers
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has adjourned till June 3, 2024 the hearing for a suit filed by members of the Rivers State Civil Society Organisation seeking to sack 27 lawmakers of the State H...
27th April 2024
Four feared killed in Rivers tanker explosion
No fewer than four persons were feared killed following a multiple explosion at the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers State on Friday night. It was gathered that a tanker laden with petrol...
26th April 2024
N1.29tn lost to oil theft annually — Speaker
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has lamented that Nigeria loses an estimated 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day to oil theft, pipeline vandalism, and other forms of...
26th April 2024
Court adjourns case seeking to sack 27 pro-Wike lawmakers
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has adjourned till June 3rd, 2024 for hearing a suit filed by members of the Rivers State Civil Society Organisation seeking to sack 27 lawmakers of the State Hou...
26th April 2024
Court frees monarch, 42 others over Rivers DPO’s murder
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and acquitted a traditional ruler, Kelvin Anugwo, and 42 others standing trial for the murder of the late Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada East ...
26th April 2024
Navy relocates training base from Lagos to Rivers
The Nigerian Navy said it has concluded arrangements to relocate the Naval Training Command headquarters from Lagos to Onne in Rivers State. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu O...
26th April 2024
Wike’s loyalists lucky Fubara is tolerant – Commissioner
THE Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, says the two commissioners who resigned from the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara were lucky that the governor is...
26th April 2024
Ashoka Africa engages stakeholders on environment in N’Delta
An international non-profit organisation, ‘Ashoka Africa,’ said it is collaborating with young stakeholders in diverse sectors to co-design innovative and sustainable solutions to environmental ch...
26th April 2024
Varsity lecturer, classmates hail politician-turned student, Maciver
A university don, Dr Innocent Kasarchi, has commended the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress deputy governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Joshua Maciver, for his humility and zeal...
26th April 2024
Be firm in fight against oil theft, Fubara tells naval chief
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has urged the Nigerian Navy to be firm in the fight against all forms of economic sabotage, particularly crude oil theft, in the nation’s waterways. The...
25th April 2024
Court restrains police from arresting Rivers APC chieftain
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has restrained the Nigerian Police from arresting and harassing a Port Harcourt-based legal practitioner and chieftain of the All Progressives Congre...
25th April 2024
Pro-Wike commissioners quit after redeployment by Fubara
THE Rivers State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor (SAN), and his counterpart in the Ministry of Finance, Isaac Kamalu, on Wednesday, rejected their redeployments ...
25th April 2024
Another Wike loyalist rejects Fubara’s redeployment, resigns as finance commissioner
The Rivers State Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, has resigned from the State Executive Council, even as he faulted Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s claims of N27 billion monthly Internally Gener...
24th April 2024
I’ll make right decisions for Rivers — Fubara
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that he is willing to work with people of goodwill and progressive ideas for partnerships that will make life better for the people. Also, the govern...
24th April 2024
JUST IN: Wike’s loyalist rejects Fubara’s redeployment, resigns as Rivers commissioner
The Rivers State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zaccaeus Adangor, SAN has rejected his redeployment to the Ministry of Special Duties (Governor’s Office), and consequently resi...
24th April 2024
Fubara reshuffles cabinet, redeploys two Wike's loyalists
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has redeployed two commissioners who are loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. The former Attorney-General and Commissioner...
24th April 2024
Rivers vigilante commander, three others arrested for armed robbery
The Rivers State Police Command said its men arrested a vigilante leader identified as Ododo Kingsley, with three of his accomplices for allegedly being involved in armed robbery and vandalism. The po...
24th April 2024
Man, 30, defiles landlady's 13-year-old daughter in Rivers
The operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a 30-year-old man identified as Jeffrey for allegedly defiling the teenage daughter of his landlady in an estate in Abuloma, Port Harcou...
23rd April 2024
Pro-Wike lawmakers strip Fubara’s power to appoint LG caretakers
The Rivers State House of Assembly, on Monday, passed the Rivers State Local Government (Amendment) Bill into law by overriding the assent of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The new law, among others, s...
23rd April 2024