Rivers State

Blessing Okorite, Port Harcourt A serious disagreement is deepening among indigenes of Okoroagu community in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State, over oil benefit. The community recently split into two groups, struggling for…

Blessing Okorite, Port Harcourt A prominent Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Hon. Igo Aguma has filed a fresh court action stopping the party from conducting Congresses in the state. This action is…

...Pleads not guilty to crime Blessing Okorite, Port Harcourt Gracious David-West, alleged killer of some young ladies in various hotels in five states of the country, including Rivers State, on Thursday, denied committing the…

Emeka Okoroanyanwu The combined scale of oil and gas investments in the island of Bonny, Rivers State, currently stands at over $30,000 billion, the Nigeria LNG Limited, NLNG, has said. NLNG Managing Director, Mr. Tony Attah,…

Ifeanyi Eduzor Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has condemned the litany of corrupt practices bedeviling sports administration in the country, even as it expressed worry over the poor preparation of the nation’s athletes…

President Muhammadu Buhari says he felt touched and sad to know that OML-25 Host Communities are pleading to have primary schools in 2019 after 40 years of oil exploration. Buhari expressed his displeasure during the official reopening…

Blessing Okorite, Port Harcourt Few months after many people died in fire incident resulting from oil pipeline explosion in Kom-Kom community, some residents in Rivers State were on Thursday evening sighted scooping fuel from a…

Nigerian Navy has released the list of successful candidates in the 2019 recruitment interview held in Lagos between July 29 and August 27. Navy Director of Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun, announced this in a statement on Thursday…

Blessing Okorite, Port Harcourt Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have smashed a criminal hideout in Ogoni forest in the state and killed one suspected notorious kidnapper who was alleged to have been terrorising communities…

Governors of seven states of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met on Friday in Port Harcourt, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. According to Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant (Electronic Media) to Governor Nyesom Wike, the meeting…