There have been mixed reactions to Monday’s claim by the Rivers State Government that it had acquired 45 percent interest in Oil Mining Licence 11 (OML 11) belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited in Ejamah Ebubu in Eleme Local Government Area and other parts of Ogoniland. Governor Nyesom Wike had in a broadcast to…
Port Harcourt Residents React to Confessions of Serial Women Killer
Residents of Port Harcourt in Rivers State have been reacting to the confessions of Gracious David West, the man the police arrested for alleged serial killing of young ladies in hotels in the city. Gracious, who was arrested in Bori as he made to escape to a neighbouring state was paraded by the police in…
Traffic Jam Cuts Off Calabar
Thousands of commuters and hundreds of vehicles were forced to spend the night on the road at Okoyong along Itu – Calabar highway when two articulated vehicles got stuck at a bad portion of the collapsed federal highway linking Calabar, Nigeria’s third-largest port city with the rest of the country. Impatient motorists made the matter…
38 Organisations March Against Serial Killings in Port Harcourt
Former Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ibim Seminitari, is leading women and civil society organisations in Rivers State in a street protest against recent serial killings of young women in hotels in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The street protest, scheduled for Wednesday will take off at the Moscow…
Rivers APC Crisis: Factional Leader Preaches Unity
Peter Odike, the Acting Chairman of the Magnus Abe-led faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stressed the need for all the factions of the party to reunite under the leadership of Rotimi Amaechi. In a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Odike thanked the national leadership of the party for appointing a caretaker…
Shock as Wike Hails Buhari
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, stunned his party people on Wednesday when he congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, Governor Wike urged the President to use his victory to work for all Nigerians, irrespective of their…
Federal Legislators Protest Collapsing Bridge in Rivers
The Senator representing Rivers southeast, Barry Mpigi, on Monday led other members of the National Assembly from Rivers State to protest the failure of the Federal Government to fix the Aleto Bridge on the East-West Road that is giving way. Mpigi said during the protest that they want the Federal Government to act immediately before…
Stop Patronising Cult Groups, Wike Warns Oil Companies
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has blamed oil companies operating in the state for the escalation of oil theft and insecurity in the state. The governor, who spoke while receiving three Germans in his office in Port Harcourt, also indicted security agencies for illegal oil bunkering. The Germans were Konrad Adenauer (German Foundation), Andreas…
Wike Set to Battle Ganduje
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said he is ready to meet his Kano State counterpart, Abdullahi Ganduje, in court over the mosque demolition saga in Port Harcourt. Ganduje had said he would sue Wike for allegedly demolishing the Rainbow Town Central Mosque in Trans-Amadi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. But in a…
British Deputy High Commissioner Visits Ogoni Cleanup Sites
The Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Gil Atkinson, has taken a tour of sites where the Ogoni Cleanup Project is being carried out. The British envoy, who did not disclose her impression about the ongoing work, was taken around by Marvin Dekii, the Programme Coordinator of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP. HYPREP is the…
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