A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has convicted and sentenced five people to death by hanging or by lethal injection until they are confirmed dead. The verdict came following the prosecution and sentencing of the five convicts over the murder of the Omudioga Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, Commander of Omudio...
•Late Herbert Wigwe The remains of the late Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, Dr. Herbert Wigwe, along with his wife, Chizoba, and son Chizi, have arrived in Isiokpo, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State for burial. The local government chairman, Samuel Nwanosike, and Ikwerre people received the remains at the Airport Omagwa...
Troops of the Nigerian Army 6 Division, Port Harcourt have uncovered over 40 dug out crude oil wells in Rumuekpe community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The wells which are about 40 feet deep are said to be the latest technique criminals employ in stealing crude oil from underground in the area, reports […]
•CP Olatunji Disu The Rivers State Police Command has exhumed the body of notorious cultist, Gift Okpara popularly known as 2 Baba, the prime suspect in the murder of former Divisional Police Officer, Bako Angbashim in Odiemudie community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state in September last year. This came barely a week […]...
•Emeka Beke The dissolved faction of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, loyal to former governor of Rivers State and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has denied defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party. Similarly, the faction, led by chairman of the dissolved executive in the state, Chief Emeka Beke, dismissed cl...
Women from the 23 local government areas of Rivers State today marched through the streets of Port Harcourt, the state capital, to declare support for Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The stakeholders, under the auspices of Rivers Women Unite for Sim, began the walk from the popular CFC junction along Aba Road to the Polo Club in […]
•CP Olatunji Disu The Rivers State Police command led by CP Olatunji Disu has given a timeline of operations and activities that led to the death of Gift Okpara, aka, 2Baba, the most wanted suspect in the brutal killing of the Ahaoda Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP. Bako Angbasim. Angbasim, a professional crime fighter, was […]
The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has issued an order restraining any plot to move the case file of the murder of the Deputy Police Officer (DPO) of Ahoada, SP Bako Angbasim to the Abuja High Court. The court also restrained the Nigerian Police from re-arresting and taking to Abuja, any defendant […]
•Herbert Wigwe Isiokpo community in Ikwerre Local Government of Rivers State has said it will use its tradition to determine circumstances of the crash that killed its son, his wife and son. King Blessing Wagor spoke during a procession to begin eight-day mourning yesterday, reports The Nation. Wagor said Wigwe would not be buried outside [&he...
•The late couple: Herbert and Chizoba Wigwe As the nation mourns the loss of Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings PLC and philanthropist, Herbert Wigwe, who passed on in a tragic helicopter crash alongside his wife and son, Isiokpo, his hometown in the Ikwerrre Local Government Area of Rivers State, has declared seven days [&hellip...
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