Edo Set To Seal $500m Vehicle Assembly Plant Deal
The growing investor confidence in Edo State, stemming from market-oriented reform designed to drive industrialisation, has earned the state yet another $500 million auto assembly plant deal from...
View ArticleC’River Assembly Passes State Produce Bill …Approves Five New SAs
The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a Bill for a law to establish the State’s produce which seeks to provide for enforcement of grade and standards of quality The Bill, sponsored by the...
View ArticleMonarch’s Abductors Demand N200m Ransom
Abductors of the traditional ruler of Ogodor community, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State HRM, Obi Sunday Olisewokwu have demanded for ransom of N200 million. A palace Chief, Okolie...
View ArticleBCS Holds Exercise For Peace In Rivers
Rivers State chapter of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) says all is set for the hosting of the brethren ahead of this week’s ‘Lighting of Centenary Torch of the Ancient of Days’ holding in...
View ArticleVC Tasks Nigerians On Peace, Unity …Says Nigeria Totters On Break Up
The Vice chancellor of Cross River University of Technology, Prof. Anthony Owan Enoh has charged Nigerians to work towards returning the country to its past glory, where peace and unity thrived, the...
View ArticleAPC ’ll Kill Nigeria’s Democracy, If Re-Elected In 2019 -ADC
The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Ralph Nwosu, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will kill the practice of democracy in Nigeria if re-elected to power in...
View ArticleTwo Arrested For Setting Fire On Tyre Dump
The Rivers State Government has confirmed the arrest of two persons in connection with the fire currently burning at a tyre dumpsite at the Port Harcourt flyover. The Commissioner for Enviroment, Prof...
View ArticleBayelsa To Unveil Task Force On Illegal Refinery
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, last Wednesday said the government would set up a task force to check the activities of illegal crude oil refineries to protect the environment in Bayelsa...
View ArticleCommissioning Of Creek Road Excites Okrika People
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has been lauded for his commitment to the infrastructural development of the State and prudent management of funds. Briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, the...
View ArticleCleric Cautions Rivers Residents On Plastics Usage
Residents of Rivers State have been urged to embrace the campaign on reduction of plastic usage in the environment. Speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt on this year’s World Environment Day...
View ArticleCourt Jails Human Trafficker In Edo
An Edo State High Court has sentenced one Ehigie Richard to seven years imprisonment for trafficking people to Russia. Richard was arraigned on a four- count charge of recruitment of a person by means...
View ArticleRSNC GM Tasks Staff On Professionalism …Urges Bible Society To Expand Scope
The General Manager of Rivers State Newspaper Corporation, publishers of The Tide Group of Newspapers, Mr Vincent Ake, has charged staff of the corporation to adhere to the tenents of professionalism...
View ArticleWike’s Giant Strides Excite Librarian
A seasoned librarian in Rivers State, Mrs Patricia Obire has given kudos to Governor Nyesom Wike for his remarkable achievements in the last three years in office. The unprecedented transformation...
View ArticleTension In Asaba Over Killing Of Two Youths
No fewer than two persons were allegedly killed in the early hours of last Saturday in Asaba community, Delta state over land dispute. It was gathered that the problem of land speculations in Asaba...
View ArticleA’lbom Assembly Passes ‘Hire Of Indigenes’ Bill
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has passed a bill which will ensure that companies doing business in the state hire at least 10 per cent of their senior workers and 70 per cent of junior workers...
View ArticleConvert Sinners Through Christ’s Virtues, Cleric Tells Believers
The General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere has said that part of sacrifices by pastors to better the lots of the less privileged in the society is the...
View ArticleN’Delta Peace Still Fragile, Clark Warns FG
Foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has urged the Federal Government to show more commitments to the agreements reached at a peace parley with the Niger Delta elders in order to forestall...
View ArticleSuspected Cultist Beheaded In C’River
A young man suspected to be a cultist has been beheaded in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. The incident occurred on Sunday at Ogep-Osokom when two rivalry cult groups clashed. An...
View ArticleObuah Cautions Night Bar, Restaurant Operators On Sanitation
The Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah has warned night restaurant and bar operators in Port Harcourt and its environs to be wary of the...
View ArticleBayelsa Saves N1bn From Public Service Reforms
Caretaker Chairman, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Obogu Oforji, says the ongoing reforms in the state public service has saved the council over N1 billion from 2016 till date. Mr Oforji...
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