Rivers State elders and leaders including a former Governor, Chief Rufus Ada-George, and former Deputy Governor, Gabriel Toby, have rejected President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis rocking the state. The elders expressed worry that the intervention may have…
Rivers Crisis: Wike joins Fubara, Odili others in meeting with Tinubu
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has joined the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, the State deputy governor and the former governor Peter Odili among others in a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the…
27 Rivers Assembly lawmakers dump PDP for APC
The ongoing political drama in Rivers State has taken a very interesting turn as 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). A member of…
NAF helicopter crashes in Port Harcourt, crew members survive
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has announced that its MI-35P helicopter has crashed in Port Harcourt, shortly after take off. The crash occurred at about 7.45 am shortly after the aircraft took off for an operation against economic saboteurs in…
Suspected cultists kill man after watching football match
Gunmen suspected to be cultists have shot and killed a young man simply identified as Akpan, in the Rumukalabo area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. It was gathered that the man popularly known as Fregene was on his way…
Suspected killer of DPO nabbed in Rivers
Police in Bayelsa have nabbed one of the suspected killers of SP Bako Angbashim, former Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada Division in Rivers. The police spokesman in Bayelsa, CSP Asinim Butswat, stated on Saturday that the suspect, Onyekachi Ikowa (43),…
Court remands suspects in custody over Rivers DPO’s murder
Following the September 8 gruesome murder of SP Bako Angbashim, a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ahoada Division in Rivers State, some suspects in custody were arraigned at the State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital on…
5 electrocuted, 4 injured while erecting billboard under high tension cables in Rivers
Five persons were killed while four others were seriously injured on Monday evening after they were electrocuted when a billboard they were erecting along the East-West Road touched high tension cables in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. It was gathered…
2-storey building collapses in Port Harcourt
An appendage of a two-story hotel has collapsed in the Ada-George area of Port Harcourt, leaving four injured persons now receiving treatment in hospital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the two-storey building belonging to 1708 Hotel, Rumuoke…
Tinubu’s visit: Shehu Sani knocks Wike over public holiday
A former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has berated the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, for declaring a public holiday and shutting down businesses in the state over the visit of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. Sani lambasted Wike, saying…
