The United Kingdom has asked that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, be allowed to do it’s job, in reaction to alleged military interference in the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the electoral process in Rivers State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday announced the suspension of...
Former River state Governor and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has accused incumbent governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Nyesom Wike, of sponsoring violence...
Barring any last minute change, five Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) might be redeployed. The planned changes, according to a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will begin the announcement of results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections Sunday evening, saying that...
Amidst reports of electoral violence in the state, the Nigerian Army said its troops from 6 Division killed six political thugs in Rivers State during Saturday’s...
A group of suspected cult members have killed two policemen in the Botem community of Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State following an attack on...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has called on the leaders of the All Progressives Congress to accept the disqualification of the party from the ballot for...
Magnus Abe, lawmaker representing Rivers South-East senatorial district, says Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, collapsed out of shock when President Muhammadu Buhari picked Yemi Osinbajo as...
There are serious concerns that the presidential election slated for Saturday may turn violent in Rivers State, if the fiery speeches of ex-Governor Rotimi Amaechi, now...
President Muhammadu Buhari all but conceded defeat of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Rivers State, having been rendered...
Even before the first ballot for the 2019 general elections is cast, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has already lost governorship election in Rivers and Imo...
A group of militants in the Niger Delta have revealed that ammunitions and political thugs have been mobilised to Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States ahead...
A New Liquefied Natural Gas plant with a capacity of 2,250 tonnes per day has been inaugurated by Greenville Oil and Gas Company Limited in Rivers...
There were strong indications last night that the crises trailing the conduct of the All progressives Congress (APC) governorship, senatorial and House of Representatives primaries may...
Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, has threatened the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential aspirants opposed to the use of Rivers State as the convention...
The total external debt owed by the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, rose by $131.55 million within the first...
The recent sack of Lawal Daura, the Director General of Department of State Security (DSS), by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, has heightened the secret battle for...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to sack the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim...
Tragedy struck in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State when a truck which lost control rammed into a beer parlour killing no less than...
Tragedy struck in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital when a young man identified simply as Oge met his untimely death while...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has raised alarm that the Federal Government has contacted a Lebanese who has been directed to claim that he received money...
A 41-year-old father identified as Michael Akpan has been jailed on the orders of a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Port Harcourt for allegedly raping four...
There were strong indications on Sunday that the crises that characterised congresses of the All Progressives Congress in some states on Saturday could lead to a...
Pandemonium struck in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State when a policeman escorting a vehicle conveying frozen chicken and fish shot dead a taxi...
12-hours after the Eze G.A. Omodu, the Paramount Ruler of Mgbuolua in Rundele Community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, was kidnapped by unknown men,...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Thursday, revealed that seven suspected cases of dreaded Monkey Pox have been recorded in four Hospitals in Abuja, with...
About 30 kilometres from Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State is the Oyigbo (pronounced Obigbo) Local Government Area, accessible mostly through the Aba Expressway, which...
The Rivers State Police Command paraded a 29-year-old man identified as Ugochukwu Arugo who allegedly killed his jealous lover (who happens to be his widowed landlady)...
Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has vowed that the state government under his leadership would never be part of the Police probe panel to investigate offences...
CLEEN Foundation, a civil society organisation has accused the Nigerian Police Force and Army of being responsible for the violence that characterised the last Saturday rerun...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State says that the behavior and utterances of the state’s governor, Nyesome Wike these days calls for concern. The...
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has said that at least 20 000 men, three helicopters and 20 gunboats would be deployed to Rivers State...
There is looming danger in the coming weeks in Rivers State as the electorate prepare for the legislative election rerun slated for December 10 by the...
Incessant kidnapping and armed robbery may soon be a thing of the past in Rivers State, as about 2,000 cult members embraced the amnesty declared by...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed five more cases of Lassa fever across four states in the last 11 days. Two cases were reported...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has seized two shopping malls allegedly belonging to a Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Geshila Khan. Khan, who was the...
A gas plant, OB-OB, belonging the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, was on Wednesday shut down by angry youths in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egema/Ndoni Local...
The governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesome Wike, has assured that his administration will partner with security agencies to ensure there is peace in the state....
Rivers state governor has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC’s) office fire incident should not be reason to cancel rerun election in the affected...
Rivers state Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers state is on fire. The incident is happening just few days...
The Niger Delta Avengers say they have once again successfully carried out attacks in three oil trunks in Bayelsa and Rivers states on Friday. The group...
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Rivers South East, Senator Magnus Abbe, of desperation over...
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), have extended their oil installations attack to Rivers state as the group Wednesday, claimed blowing up a Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation,...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Monday, said the plans in Abuja by the All Progressives Congress ( APC ), over the coming rerun election...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and former First Lady are back in Nigeria after the ex-President’s international speaking tour. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, was in hand...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday fixed July 23 and 30 for the conclusion of all remaining re-run elections in the country. The commission...
Suspended rerun elections in Rivers, Imo, Kogi and Kano States, will get dates on Thursday, the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said. This was disclosed...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been told to stay away from Rivers State as it has no constitutional powers to look into the...
The Police and Army in Rivers State have said thirteen suspected hoodlums were killed on Tuesday in seperate operations. The spokesman of the 2 Amphibious Brigade,...