•Fire outbreak Two children have died in a late-night fire that swept through a cluster of makeshift homes in the Rumuola area of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State. The fire, which occurred around 10 p.m. yesterday near the Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, destroyed the settlement and displaced about 27 families. Properties worth...
•PDP leaders at the party’s national convention in Ibadan today  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at its national convention in Ibadan today, has dissolved the entire party structures in Imo, Abia, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers states. The decision was confirmed as host governor Seyi Makinde moved a motion to ratify and approve elected exec...
Authorities in Rivers State have shut down the popular Obio/Akpor International Market, also known as Amaechi Market, following the killing of a trader identified simply as Ejike, allegedly by a group of meat sellers during a quarrel over N500. The incident occurred around 11am on Sunday, along SARS Road in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area...
Aggrieved landlords of Cinnamon, Lemon, and Iroko Drives within Cedarwood Garden Estate in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, have raised alarm over an alleged illegal demolition threat of their properties from the Chief Executive Officer of Delta Technology and Property Limited, Mr. Stephen Nyegwa. The landlords insisted that Nyegwa’s actions ...
•Rivers State Police spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko The Chairman of Etche Local Government Area, Chima Njoku, has declared a bounty of N1.5 million on an alleged land grabber accused of causing the bloody clash that claimed some persons at Umuakonu community in Igbo-Etche. The chairman announced the bounty when he visited the community yester...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Rivers State has declared a seven-day warning strike over the alleged withholding of salaries of more than 500 workers in Emuoha Local Government Area. The affected workers had, last week, stormed the Emuoha council secretariat to protest the alleged removal of their names from the payroll, wh...
•Senator Ndume and Governor Fubara Former Senate Majority Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, has appealed to the executive and legislative arms of government in Rivers State to prevent a resurgence of political crisis in the state. Speaking on the sidelines of the just-concluded 2nd 2025 ECOWAS Parliamentary Seminar in Port Harcourt, themed “Harnessing ...
•Tinubu and Ibas National Coordinator of the South-South Elders Forum in Rivers State, Anabs Sara-Igbe, has criticised the recent tenure of sole administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas, saying that the intervention was unnecessary and harmful to the state’s interests. Sara-Igbe made this known when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television last night...
•Fubara, Tinubu and Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says President Bola Tinubu deliberately chose to lift the six-month emergency rule imposed on Rivers state in the overall interest of the state. President Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State at the peak of the rift between Governor Siminalay...
•Tinubu and Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has asked Nigerians not to celebrate the return of democracy in Rivers State, saying the state of emergency signposts the dictatorship of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. Following serious political crisis between Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his political godfather Nyesom Wike...
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