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Education, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, April 25th, 2021
(NNP) The academic community in Rivers State has been thrown into mourning with the sudden death of Dr. Onengiyeofori Moses Douglas Georgewill, the immediate past Rector of ken Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, formerly known as Rivers State Polytechnic. The former Rector who was an engineer by training, died on April 24, while exercising at his home […]
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Enugu, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Enugu Security operatives are having tough time now trying vacate Hausa traders who barricaded Enugu- Port Harcourt expressway at the New Artisan axis of the road. The traders wielding AK47 and other dangerous weapons were said to be having disagreement with their leaders trying to enforce the relocation order of the state […]
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General Politics, Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
What Is Good For the Goose May Not Be Good For the Gander Wike sacked his Commissioner for Environment in the middle of a summit on the hazardous Sooth in Rivers State. It’s not a problem since he has the power to hire and fire. But the reason he gave for the sack is what […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt Not less than 3,658 men, women and children in Rivers State, have received free medical care and health education during a medical mission organized in partnership between the Ogbakor Ikwerre USA/Canada and O.B. Lulu Briggs Foundation, hosted by the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Members of OIUSA/Canada, the […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics, Rivers
Friday, April 9th, 2021
The Number one bestselling author and former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has lampooned the president Muhammadu Buhari-led government of Nigeria for proposing to use what he described as a whopping sum of $1.5b to renovate “a loss-making Port Harcourt refinery,” when Oil giant, Shell Plc sold her 175,000bpd “profit-making refinery for […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News
Monday, April 5th, 2021
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt The former senator representing Rivers South-East, Magnus Abe, has described the announcement of the zoning of the All Progressives Congress governorship to riverine by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, as a “Greek gift” intended to set the people (riverine) against other parts of Rivers State. Senator Abe has also […]
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Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, April 5th, 2021
Nyesom Wike …As forum alleges marginalisation of Kalabari Kingdom By Davies Iheamnachor Group, Kengema Unity Forum, KUF, an apolitical group in the Kalabari Kingdom, has criticised the Rivers State Government on the N13.48 billion Trans-Kalabari road Project. The Rivers State Government on the 25th of March, 2021, announced the commencement of the first phase of […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
The lingering crisis between the Government of Rivers State and a consultancy firm over the Paris Club refund has now taken a legal dimension with a suit by the firm claiming the sum of N25 billion as debt it incurred arising from the transaction. In the suit before a High Court of the Federal Capital […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, March 29th, 2021
Burna Boy, his parents and management team paid Governor Wike a courtesy visit at the Government House, Port Harcourt. By Taiwo Okanlawon Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Saturday gifted N10million to Grammy award winning Afrobeat artist, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy alongside other musicians. The artistes were given the money for […]
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Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike has warned that secessionist agitators like ex-militant leader, Asari Dokubo and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB will not be allowed to operate in Rivers State. Wike said this while receiving the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, on courtesy visit at Government House, Port […]
