COVID-19: Edo To Clampdown On Defaulting Commercial Drivers
Edo State Government will start arresting commercial drivers that violate the directive of the government on the number of passengers to be carried to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus disease in...
View ArticleBayelsa CJ Pardons Eight Awaiting Trial Inmates, Donates Palliatives
Chief Judge of Bayelsa, Justice Kate Abiri, has granted pardon to eight Awaiting Trial Inmates (ATI). The Tide correspondent reports that Abiri pardoned the inmates while performing Jail Delivery...
View ArticlePH, Obio/Akpor Residents Confirm Receiving COVID-19 Palliatives
Some residents of Rumuoji and Mgbuoshimini communities in Port Harcourt City and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas of Rivers State, have confirmed receiving foodstuffs as palliatives from the state...
View ArticlePolice Nab Suspects Over Tricyclist’s Murder In Delta
The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested some suspects in connection with alleged murder of a commercial tricycle operator at Otokutu Community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the...
View ArticleLockdown: NPDC Donates N25m Food Items To Delta Communities
The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) has donated food items worth over N25 million to Delta communities to cushion the effects of the lockdown order in the state. The items were presented...
View ArticleCOVID-19: MOSOP Mourns Saro Wiwa’s Late Son In UK
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed shock at news of the death of Menegian Saro- Wiwa, one of the sons of late environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa in the United Kingdom...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Civil Servants Shun CRSG’s Resumption Order
Senior civil servants in the employ of Cross River State Government have shunned Governor Ben Ayade’s directive of getting back to work. Ayade in a press release ref: GO/PRESS/012/VOL.I/ 179, signed by...
View ArticleIYC Urges FG To Probe Pollution Of N’Delta Coastal Waters
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) last Saturday urged the Federal Government to probe the reported pollution of the Niger Delta coastline that led to massive death of fishes and sanction the polluters. The...
View ArticleFirm Lauds RSG’s Efforts, Donates Palliatives
Siat Nigeria Limited, a Palm Oil Development and Processing Company says it has made a donation of 350 (25 litre) jerry cans of crude palm to the Rivers State Government, and 50 (25 litre) jerry cans...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Information Boss Assures On Expeditious Distribution Of Stimulus...
The Chairman, Cross River State COVID-19 Publicity and Advertisement Sub-Committee and Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Comrade Asu Okang, has assured Cross Riverians and residents of the...
View ArticleDon Berates Wike’s Critics Over Oil Workers’ Arrest
A university teacher, Dr. Sofiri Peterside, has faulted claims that the Rivers State Government was confrontational for arresting oil workers who allegedly violated the State Executive Order aimed at...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Edo Govt Clears 105 Suspected Cases
Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, says the state is making steady progress in the management of coronavirus. Okundia assured that the remaining eight active cases of COVID-19 were...
View ArticleSuspected Killers Of Naval Officer Arrested In C’River
Five alleged killers of Naval Sub-Lieutenant, David Igbashal have been arrested by the Zone 6 Headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Calabar, Cross River State. The victim, according to a statement by...
View ArticleBayelsa Reveals Coronavirus Status Of 140 Tested Persons
The Bayelsa State Taskforce on COVID-19 has disclosed the results of 140 blood samples sent to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) approved laboratory in Edo. The state taskforce said all...
View ArticleLockdown: Expert Cautions Security Personnel Over Alleged Citizens’ Assault
A security expert, Col. Chinedu Ohunda, rtd, has flayed the alleged highhandedness of security personnel deployed to enforce the lockdown ordered by the Federal Government to curb the spread of the...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Rotary Club Donates Preventive Kits To Health Centres In Bayelsa
The Rotary Club of Yenagoa has donated preventive kits to the Amarata Primary Healthcare Centre and Family Support Programme Clinic in Ovom, as part of efforts to prevent the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic...
View ArticleSuspects Confess To Diverting Dangote Truck
The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Lawan Tanko Jimeta, has assured the people of 24 hours safety during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. CP Jimeta gave this assurance while parading some suspects at...
View ArticleC’ River Laments Lack Of Funds To Fight Coronavirus
The Cross River State Government has lamented the lack of funds to check coronavirus in the State. Addressing a press conference in Calabar yesterday, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barr...
View ArticleCOVID-19: UCTCH Solicits Aid For Expansion Of Isolation Centre
The media in Cross River State at the weekend had a guided tour of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, (UCTH) Isolation Centre designated for treatment of any patient that may suffer from the...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Banigo Commends US Group For Recognising Wike
Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo has expressed gratitude to the Port Harcourt Committee of the United States of America Association of Kansas City for commending Governor Nyesom...
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