Green Money Initiative: CRSG Seeks Partnership With Nigerian Legion
The Cross River State Government yesterday charged the Nigerian Legion operating in Cross River State to partner with the state government in the area of Green Money initiative initiated by the...
View ArticleCleric Warns Against Collection Of Marching Ground By Communities
The Bishop, Diocese of Niger Delta, Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Rt Rev Ralph Ebirien, has called on communities in the state to warn their youths against demanding for “Marching Ground”, from...
View ArticleAPC Crisis: Abe Tasks Amaechi, Others On Peace
The immediate past representative of the Rivers South-East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has pleaded with Transportation Minister and other top officials of the...
View ArticleBayelsa Community Protests Over Bridge Collapse
Four months after the bridge linking Elebele community of Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State with sister communities of the area collapsed, the people of the area have indicted O.K.I Nig.Ltd,...
View ArticleModula Refinery: Group Okays Plan To Grant N’Delta Youths Licence
A pressure group, the Niger Delta Youth Coalition (NDYC), has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government on its plan to grant operational licence to youths of Niger Delta involved in kpofire...
View Article200 Benefit From Police Free Medical Outreach In Rivers
About 200 persons comprising men, women, youths and children from Obuama Community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State have benefitted from the free medical exercise conducted by the...
View ArticleRivers Has Surpassed SEEFOR Targets -Coordinator
As the Phase I of the State Employment and Expenditure for Results (SEEFOR) winds down this year, National Coordinator of the programme, Dr. Greg Onu, says Rivers State has surpassed its targets in all...
View ArticleSolders’ Widows Seek Special Support, Employment
Widows of fallen soldiers have urged government to engage them in jobs and other employment opportunities. Speaking to The Tide in Port Harcourt , Rivers State Chairperson of Wives of ex-soldiers, Mrs....
View ArticleDelta Community Alleges Dumping Of Toxic Waste
Asaba Indigenes Ugbolu, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State have raised alarm over the dumping of a toxic substance along the community’s axis of the Asaba/Ebu/Abuja Road. Sources said...
View ArticleDeath Of Naval Men: LG Chairman Urges Restraint
The Chairman, Ekeremor Local Government Council of Bayelsa State, Dr Bertola Perekeme, yesterday condemned the killing of four Naval personnel in December 2019 in the area. Perekeme said no sane person...
View ArticleGroup Sensitises Women, Others On Ethics, Integrity
Nigerians have been urged to uphold integrity and ethical standards that would promote and engender peace, development and progress in country. Speaking during workshop session with women groups, the...
View ArticleCommissioner Tasks RSNC Staff On Co-operation
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim has charged staff of the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation to join hands with him to make The Tide Newspaper...
View ArticleEx-Agitators Urge Buhari, NASS To Review Amnesty Programme
The former Niger Delta militant leaders under phase three of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and National Assembly to revisit the reintegration...
View ArticleEmpowerment: NGO Wants Mobilisation Of 690 Rivers Women
An NGO, Women Solidarity Initiative for Development (WOSID) has called for the mobilisation of 690 women from the 23 Local Government Areas in Rivers State for empowerment. Speaking shortly after an...
View ArticleUCTH Conducts First Open Heart Surgery, April – CMD
The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, (UCTH) has concluded plans to conduct its first Open Heart Surgery (OHS) in April this year. To enable the health institution to do this, two renowned...
View ArticleCourt Grants Bail To Ayade’s Critic Charged With Terrorism
The Federal High Court in Calabar, yesterday, granted bail to a Nigerian lawyer, Joseph Odok, charged with terrorism for criticising Cross River governor, Ben Ayade. Mr Odok’s lawyer, Oliver Osang,...
View ArticleLegionnaires Laud Wike Over N100m Scholarship For Dependants
Members of the Nigerian Legion have lauded Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over the N100million scholarship donation for children of the legionnaires in the State. Chairman of the Rivers State...
View ArticleObaseki’s Aide Escapes Gunmen Attack In Benin
A Senior Special Assistant to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Anti-Human Trafficking, Comrade Solomon Okoduwa, on Tuesday night escaped gunmen attack at his residence in Benin. Addressing...
View ArticleEdo Intensifies Effort In Curb Spread Of Lassa Fever
Edo State Government has disclosed that it has intensified efforts to curb the spread of Lassa fever in the state against the backdrop of the resurgence of the viral disease across endemic states in...
View ArticleBayelsa Medical University Holds Maiden Matriculation
The Bayelsa Medical University, BMU, yesterday held her maiden matriculation ceremony for 208 pioneer students of the institution at the university campus in Yenagoa, the state capital. Speaking at the...
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