The Supreme Court on Wednesday, fixed March 5 for judgment in a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging the ruling of the lower...
Suspected gunmen are reported to have abducted the monarch of Ikuru town in the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, HRM Aarom Ikuru, at his...
Placard-wielding residents of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the Rivers State on Wednesday, marched to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company in Calabar, to protest a...
Two persons were feared dead as gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded Rumuomasi community in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Ripples Nigeria gathered...
A twin blast rocked the Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday. The explosion, which was suspected to be...
A 68-year-old man, Sunday Joel, from Akwa Ibom State, has sought N100m from the police for the death of his 30-year old son, Nsikak Joel. The...
Gunmen on Tuesday morning abducted a lecturer with the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in Rivers State, Mr. James Finwe. The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of...
Police in Rivers State on Saturday raided an illegal detention facility in Igwruta, Ikwerre local government area of the state. The facility is used by a...
Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have emerged as the three most indebted states in Nigeria, accounting for 23.9% of the country’s subnational domestic debt of...
Justice G.O Ollor of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Friday ordered the unconditional release of 150 inmates from the Maximum Port Harcourt Correctional...
The family of a 31-year-old taxi driver who was allegedly killed by a policeman in Rivers State over two years ago on Monday demanded an N100million...
The Rivers State Police Command said on Sunday three persons had been arrested in connection with the explosion that rocked a local church in Port Harcourt,...
Norde Sylvester, a 50-year old man and a civil servant with the Universal Basic Education (UBE), on Wednesday narrated how operatives of the now disbanded Special...
The police in Rivers State have arrested a councilor in the state, Blackson Nwanyawu (JP), from Etche local government area for allegedly battering his brother’s wife,...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has decried the alleged killing of Igbo youths by the Nigeria Military in Oyigbo, Rivers, State. It said the development was threatening the cordial...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the suit brought by the Bayelsa State government seeking to stop the Federal Government from further paying the...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has imposed a 24-hour curfew in three local government areas of the state. The affected LGAs are Oyigbo, Obio/Akpor, and some...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday deployed special teams to deliver urgently needed assistance to 12 states most ravaged by flood in the country. The Senior Special...
The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph Mukan, has said the identity of abductors of the 25-year-old female lawyer, Bisola Ajayi, are already known to...
Unidentified gunmen on Sunday abducted a female lawyer in Rivers State simply identified as Paulette Abisola Ajayi. Eyewitnesses told journalists on Monday that the lawyer was...
The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday deployed troops on board six warships and 60 gunboats in a special military exercise to tackle pirates, oil smugglers, and other...
The coronavirus outbreak has worsened food crisis in Lagos, Kano, Rivers and Abuja, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The Organisation stated this in a...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off their planned strike action in Rivers State. This was made known on...
Governor Nyesome Wike has announced the reopening of worship centres in Rivers State. He said that churches were free to now hold services with 50 per...
Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday night abducted a 60-year-old farmer, Nyieda Kpeenu, in Rivers State. One of the woman’s sons told journalists that the gunmen abducted their...
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that a clash between rival cult members in Amadi-Ama community, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of the state...
A recent release by the Debt Management Office (DMO) has placed Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom as leading Nigeria’s most indebted states. The country’s monumental debt burden hardly seems...
The Rivers State government has approved new guidelines for the staging of marriages and burial ceremonies in the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This was revealed...
The leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) may be far from over as the Executive Committee of the Rivers State chapter has suspended its...
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State loyal to Senator Magnus Abe, has picked a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice...
The Rivers State Government has revealed that no fewer than 22 frontline doctors and 60 other health workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the state....
The Imo State Police Command on Tuesday paraded two women, Victoria Joseph, 28 and Joy Ugorji, 33 for allegedly stealing a 2-year-old baby from Kakuano, Rivers...
The government of Rivers State has imposed a fine of N10 million to be paid by any resident who carried out burial ceremonies with more than...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday killed one of the officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Rivers State, Godwin Mbula. The Media Assistant...
No less than 11 persons have reportedly died from a disease yet to be identified in Bonny Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State. It was...
The Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) said on Saturday two patients admitted into the hospital had tested positive for COVID-19. The Public Relations Officer of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed those behind the alleged plot to remove Governor Nysome Wike and foist emergency rule in Rivers State. Governor Wike...
The Nyesom Wike-led government of Rivers has accused some Abuja-based politicians of ‘evil’ plots to have the state placed on emergency rule. The state government said...
Justice Adolphus Enebeli of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, Wednesday sentenced two men — Ifeanyichukwu Maxwell Dike and Ugochukwu Nwamiro —to death over the...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday said two children of a deceased COVID-19 patient in the state and a pastor praying for his recovery have...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday alleged that efforts of the state government to contain the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in the...
At least 3,249 arms including ammunition and cartridges have been recovered by the Rivers Police Command at a criminal hideout in Ogu/Bolo local government area of...
A traditional leader in Yobe State, has called for the return of health inspectors in the state in a bid to curb the outbreak of Lassa...
The Rivers State Government and the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are locked in a war of words over the motive behind the...
On December 19, 2019, the Nigerian Police arrested five men in Rivers State for alleged car theft. One of them, Chima Ikwunado, died in police detention,...
The Rivers State Police Command has said that the two policemen and a civilian who were kidnapped on their way to work in November 2019 in...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the transfer of Soku oil field from Bayelsa to Rivers State. The judge, who...
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Governors of the 36 states in the country heard on Tuesday that Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have the highest number of HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in a latest report that Lagos has the highest number monkeypox disease in the country with 29 reported...