13,000 For ECK Seminar In PH
Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital will play host to over 13,000 seekers of spiritual truth from across the world for the 2015 Eck African Regional Seminar this Friday. Addressing newsmen at the...
View ArticleA’Ibom NSCDC Nabs 70, Convicts Seven Vandals
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Akwa Ibom State command, said on Sunday that it had arrested 70 suspected vandals and convicted seven of them between June and November. The state...
View ArticleDisrespect: Okowa Sanctions DESOPADEC
The board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESO-PADEC) is in for a rude shock as the state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has sanctioned it for showing disrespect to the state chief...
View ArticleStudents Seek Laws Against Gas Flaring In N’Delta
Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo, in a handshake with the General Superintendent of Glorious Covenant Church, Pastor Samuel Akinola (right), during the Nigeria Prays’...
View ArticleNGO Wants Govt To Focus On Empowerment Projects
Public Policy Initiative of Nextier (PPIN), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has urged relevant authorities to place more emphasis on economic empowerment projects to tackle environmental...
View ArticleA’Ibom Gov Eulogises Don Etiebet
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State says late Chief Donald Etiebet, former governor of Cross River State, was a symbol of unity. Emmanuel stated in a tribute to Etiebet whose remains were...
View ArticleBayelsa Poll: 14 Parties Laud INEC
Fourteen political parties in Bayelsa State have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for cancelling the governorship election in the state in Southern Ijaw Local Government...
View ArticleC’River Repairs 120 Roads In Calabar
Rivers State Commander, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Pastor Humphrey Opuada Gally (3rd left), with his Deputy, Comrade Chukwuka Osumah (3rd right), A/C Finance, Rivers State, Mrs Chizoba Chukwu (left),...
View ArticlePiracy: FISON Urges Navy To Intensify Patrol On Waterways
The Chairman, Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Rivers State chapter, Dr Awotein George, has appealed to the Nigerian Navy to intensify its patrol of the country’s territorial waters to check the...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Murder Suspect In Delta
The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old suspect who allegedly killed a man and injured another at Abbi, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the state. In a statement issued in Asaba...
View ArticleBayelsa Guber: NGO Absolves Army Of Complicity
A non-governmental organisation, Watch Election, has absolved the Nigerian Army of complicity in the inconclusive gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State. Watch Election’s National Coordinator, Mr...
View ArticleOkowa Laments Transport Company’s Debt Profile
Mene Bon Bomu, HRH Charles Tenalo (right), Chairman, Caretaker Committee, Gokana Local Government Area, Hon Austine Soh (middle) and Divisional Police Officer, Kpor Police Station, Mr Charles Ogun,...
View ArticleHIV Scourge Down By 0.5% In C’River – NACA Director
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) said last Thursday that the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in Cross River had dropped by 0.5%. A director with NACA, Dr Marian Ezekwe, made the...
View Article… As Five Political Parties Call For Concellation Of Results
As controversy sorrounding the postponed Southern IJaw Local Government Elections continues, a group of five political parties that contested the election has accused INEC of bias in cancelling the...
View ArticleGroup Wants Soldiers Off Bayelsa Re-run Poll
The Niger Delta Group, Non Violent Niger Delta Freedom Fighters has urged the Nigerian military to keep off from Ijaw land as the Ijaws do no longer have confidence in the military. The group also...
View ArticleDelta Assembly Urges Stronger State-Owned Media
Rivers State Commissioner for Housing, Barr. Emma Okah (left), with the Zonal Director, NTA, Port Harcourt, Mr. Sunday Ibrahim Sawntong (middle), welcoming the Senior Special Assistant, Administration...
View ArticleDelta: Three Die In Multiple Accidents
Multiple accidents that occurred at the Asaba axis of Benin-Onisha expressway have claimed three lives. Our correspondent reports that eight others sustained injuries in the crash which involved five...
View ArticleGroup Seeks Media Assistance To Fight Corruption
National President, Buhari/Osibanjo Supporters Club, Dr David Benjamin, has called on media organisations to support the ongoing campaign against corruption by the Buhari-led administration. Benjamin...
View Article‘I’m Not Afraid Of Rerun In A’Ibom’
The Akwa Ibom gover nor, Mr Udem Emmanuel says he is not afraid of a re-run election in view of the nullification of his election by Court of Appeal recently. Governor Emmanuel who was speaking in a...
View ArticleNACA Begins Free HIV Counselling In Bayelsa
Grand Patron, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council, Oba of Ogbaland, His Eminence Sir, Dr. Chukumela Nnam Obi II (sitting), with the Rivers State executives of NUJ, during a...
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