Groups Protest Renewal Of BEDC’s Licence
Some youth groups, yesterday stormed the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing in Maitama, Abuja to protest against the renewal of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company operational licence. The...
View ArticleGirl In Police Net For Killing Father
An unidentified 14-year-old girl has been arrested by the police in Delta State for allegedly stabbing a man believed to be her father to death in the Cable Point area of Asaba, the state capital. It...
View ArticleOutrage As Policeman Kills Bayelsa Varsity Student
Residents of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, were thrown into mourning last Friday following the killing of a 20-year-old 300-level student of the Niger Delta University, Tariela Nikade by a...
View ArticleCommissioner, Others Eulogise Late Nwikinaka
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Barr Emma Okah and some veteran journalists have paid glowing tributes to late Augustine Nwikinaka who was laid to rest last Saturday,...
View ArticleRoad Construction: Expert Recommends French Drains For N’ Delta
Towards ensuring sustainable roads in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, an expert in road construction, Engr. Mark Daso Derefaka, says the best option is what he called perforated drains, popularly...
View ArticleCleric Preaches Against Domestic Violence Affecting Women
Chairman of Ojo Local Government Area, Mr Idowu Olushola, represented by his Deputy, Mrs Edna Uche-Ubochi, said that the state government was implementing policies against the menace to nip the problem...
View ArticleDickson Urges Nigerians To Pray For Peaceful Transition
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has called on Nigerians irrespective of religion, ethnicity and political leaning to pray for a peaceful transition ahead of the 2019 general elections....
View ArticleBenin Residents Count Losses Over Botched President’s Visit
Some residents of Benin are counting their losses following the cancellation of yesterday’s visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Edo State. The residents made this known in separate interviews with...
View Article‘Perspective Can Alter Reality’
The sixth edition of Techonlgy, Entertainment, Design (TED) Port Harcourt, an annual non-profit event devoted to worthy ideas on topical issues, held recently at Horlikins Event Centre, Port Harcourt....
View ArticleRSG Planned Teachers Empolyment, Not Scam – Wike’s Aide
An aide to The Rivers State Governor, Oraye St Franklyn has assured that the recruitment of Teachers into the State Civil Service is not a scam, insisting that only qualified persons would be employed....
View ArticleIndorama, NUJ Condole RSNC Editor Over Father’s Death
The management of Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has commiserated with the Group News Editor of The Tide Newspapers, Mr Nelson Chukwudi, over the demise of his father, late Pa Paul...
View ArticleN’ Delta: SPDC Spends N1bn On Secondary School
The people of Niger Delta region have been called upon to evolve ways of making the region more attractive to investors and abstain from activities capable of scaring investors away of from region....
View ArticleRSG Moves To Deflood Choba, Rumualogu Road …Builds 1.1km Storm Drain
Motorists plying the busy Ozuoba, Rumualogu Choba road will soon heave a sigh of relief, following the on-going construction of a 1.1km storm drain by the Rivers State Government. Chairman of the...
View ArticleIgbos In C’ River Honour Ayade, Back Re-Election Bid
Ahead of the 2019 governorship elections, Igbos residentS in Cross River State under the aegis of OhanaezeIndigbo, weekend, declared their total support for the state governor, Prof Ben Ayade. The...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS:Rivers, First To Use Self-Test Equipment
Rivers State will be the first in Nigeria to put into use customised HIV self-test equipment known as “Amethyst HIV 1&2 Test Kit”. Making this revelation at the weekend during events marking the...
View ArticleGroup Mobilises For Atiku In C’River
The Director-General of ‘Atiku Shall Lead Nigeria 2019’, Mr Patrick Agida has said that the group would amass 90 per cent of Cross River votes to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic...
View ArticleGroup Moves To Promote Peace, Unity In Okrika
The Chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Wakirike Unity Choir concert, Pastor Iyoloma Tomquin has said that arrangement have been concluded to organise the second edition of the event....
View ArticleNSE Inducts 82 Into PH Branch Fellowship
The Port Harcourt branch of the Nigeria society of Engineers (NSE) has inaugurated 80 new members and two others into the distinguished fellowship cadre of the society. Speaking at the ceremony held in...
View ArticleProf Esu Sues For Africanism
The Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ivara Ejemot Esu, has sued for Africanism amongst Africans, especially those in diaspora, at the flag off of the 2018 Carnival Calabar second dry run...
View ArticleSenator Proffers Solution To ASUU Strike
The Senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce, has suggested how the federal government can end the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. Bruce said that privatisation...
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