The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph Mukan, has said the identity of abductors of the 25-year-old female lawyer, Bisola Ajayi, are already known to...
Unidentified gunmen on Sunday abducted a female lawyer in Rivers State simply identified as Paulette Abisola Ajayi. Eyewitnesses told journalists on Monday that the lawyer was...
The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday deployed troops on board six warships and 60 gunboats in a special military exercise to tackle pirates, oil smugglers, and other...
The coronavirus outbreak has worsened food crisis in Lagos, Kano, Rivers and Abuja, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The Organisation stated this in a...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off their planned strike action in Rivers State. This was made known on...
Governor Nyesome Wike has announced the reopening of worship centres in Rivers State. He said that churches were free to now hold services with 50 per...
Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday night abducted a 60-year-old farmer, Nyieda Kpeenu, in Rivers State. One of the woman’s sons told journalists that the gunmen abducted their...
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that a clash between rival cult members in Amadi-Ama community, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of the state...
A recent release by the Debt Management Office (DMO) has placed Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom as leading Nigeria’s most indebted states. The country’s monumental debt burden hardly seems...
The Rivers State government has approved new guidelines for the staging of marriages and burial ceremonies in the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This was revealed...
The leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) may be far from over as the Executive Committee of the Rivers State chapter has suspended its...
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State loyal to Senator Magnus Abe, has picked a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice...
The Rivers State Government has revealed that no fewer than 22 frontline doctors and 60 other health workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the state....
The Imo State Police Command on Tuesday paraded two women, Victoria Joseph, 28 and Joy Ugorji, 33 for allegedly stealing a 2-year-old baby from Kakuano, Rivers...
The government of Rivers State has imposed a fine of N10 million to be paid by any resident who carried out burial ceremonies with more than...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday killed one of the officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Rivers State, Godwin Mbula. The Media Assistant...
No less than 11 persons have reportedly died from a disease yet to be identified in Bonny Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State. It was...
The Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) said on Saturday two patients admitted into the hospital had tested positive for COVID-19. The Public Relations Officer of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed those behind the alleged plot to remove Governor Nysome Wike and foist emergency rule in Rivers State. Governor Wike...
The Nyesom Wike-led government of Rivers has accused some Abuja-based politicians of ‘evil’ plots to have the state placed on emergency rule. The state government said...
Justice Adolphus Enebeli of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, Wednesday sentenced two men — Ifeanyichukwu Maxwell Dike and Ugochukwu Nwamiro —to death over the...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday said two children of a deceased COVID-19 patient in the state and a pastor praying for his recovery have...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday alleged that efforts of the state government to contain the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in the...
At least 3,249 arms including ammunition and cartridges have been recovered by the Rivers Police Command at a criminal hideout in Ogu/Bolo local government area of...
A traditional leader in Yobe State, has called for the return of health inspectors in the state in a bid to curb the outbreak of Lassa...
The Rivers State Government and the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are locked in a war of words over the motive behind the...
On December 19, 2019, the Nigerian Police arrested five men in Rivers State for alleged car theft. One of them, Chima Ikwunado, died in police detention,...
The Rivers State Police Command has said that the two policemen and a civilian who were kidnapped on their way to work in November 2019 in...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the transfer of Soku oil field from Bayelsa to Rivers State. The judge, who...
Hello, it’s Sunday again. And, Business Wrap is upon us. Remember this serving is a featured post highlighting some of the major events that unfolded during...
Governors of the 36 states in the country heard on Tuesday that Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have the highest number of HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in a latest report that Lagos has the highest number monkeypox disease in the country with 29 reported...
The 36 states in Nigeria including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) generated a total sum of N691.1 billion in the first half of 2019. This is...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to intervene in the persisting factional crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. Concerned stakeholders under...
The newly introduced charges on bank deposit by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is expected to kick off today. According to the new policy, bank...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole has bemoaned the situation of the party in Rivers State. Owing to internal wrangling in Rivers APC,...
Editor’s note: Nigerian Governors, as custodians of the people’s mandate at the state level, have so much expectations placed on their shoulders. These range from policy...
The heightened state of insecurity in Nigeria following clashes between the Nigerian Police and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has forced the government...
The Federal Ministry of Environment under the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) on Monday assured Ogoni people of their full participation in the ongoing clean-up of...
No fewer than nine suspects have been arrested on Tuesday morning due to the death of two mobile police officers, that were on Monday shot dead...
Six kidnap victims, including four corps members, on Sunday were rescued by the Rivers State Police Command after their abduction in Emohua area of the East-West...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has read out the riot act to communities in the state, saying his government would no longer condone the shutdown of...
A fake lawyer, Sunday Ejiofor has been sentenced to three years in prison by a chief magistrates’ court in Choba, Rivers State. The police prosecutor, Tom...
The Nigerian Senate was on Wednesday told that life has become “brutish and worthless” in Rivers State as people are being “killed, kidnapped or abducted at...
The Governor of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has lifted the suspension placed 12 local government chairmen he suspended. The recall of the chairmen was...
Three persons were feared killed in Eneka community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State when a group of gunmen shot endlessly near a football viewing...
The Nigerian Navy has said it has arrested 19 fake personnel caught with its identity cards and camouflage in different parts of the country. According to...
Kidnappers struck again on Saturday as two expatriates, working with the Nigerian Delta Petroleum Resources, were abducted in Ogbele, Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State,...
Unknown gunmen have abducted two staff of multi-national oil company, Shell, after killing a Spy policeman attached to them. The incident took place along Ahoada-Ndele-Rumuji axis...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the supplementary elections held in four constituencies for the...
