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Education, Headlines, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, April 11th, 2016
The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Senate announced on Monday evening the closure of the institution in the wake of violent students’ protests over fee hikes. Protests over fee hikes began on Monday morning.360Nobs.com Senior student Peter Ofurum was shot and killed during the protests, according to recent reports. The Spokesman and Deputy Registrar of […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2016
Wike donates N1bn for reconstruction of two faculties at RSU — 10th April 2016 ■ Renames Law Complex after Graham Douglas From Tony John and Aniefon Dick, Port Harcourt THE Rivers State Governor and visitor to the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Nyesom Wike, has donated the sum of N1 billion for the reconstruction of the […]
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Headlines, Imo, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
-Sun From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri and Fred Itua, Abuja Imo legislators yesterday kicked against the appointment of Mrs. Ibim Seminitari as the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC), saying Rivers State had previously produced a chairman of the board while Imo state has never produced its executive director nor the managing […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 27th, 2016
WHO WILL SAVE RIVERS STATE FROM PREDEATORS? By Ibrahim Modibbo, 08033138994, ibrahimmodibbo60@gmail.com In Rivers state, things have fallen apart. Under Governor Nyesom Wike, Rivers is speedily drifting into a state of anarchy. Political marauders and serial killers are on the prowl, as human heads have now become trophies and souvenirs of electoral value. While ideas […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, March 24th, 2016
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dubbed Rivers State as Nigeria’s most deadly state, even as he offered profuse apologies for the ill-tempered elections conducted under his watch in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states. Speaking at the first National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja this […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, INEC Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Military plotting to declare state of emergency — Wike *Wike is turning Rivers to another Somalia — APC *Hold INEC, security agencies responsible —PDP By Jimitota Onoyume, Kingsley Omonobi, Henry Umoru, Ben Agande & Omeiza Ajayi PORT HARCOURT— THE Independent National Electoral Commssion, INEC, has said that it will not return to Rivers until the […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 20th, 2016
PORT HARCOURT – Security was, Sunday evening, beefed to the teeth at the of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the commission collation to announced the official results of the Saturday’s Federal and State legislative elections. INEC on Saturday conducted a rerun elections of the National and state house of Assembly seats that were annulled […]
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Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 20th, 2016
Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA narrowly escaped death this afternoon after his vehicle was attacked by gunmen in two utility vehicles on his way from the Port Harcourt International Airport. Peterside who was in his car with Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC Chairman and Hon […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Raw Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
National and Rivers State leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), top politicians and reporters yesterday came under gun attack from suspected thugs of the Peoples Democratic Party in a near ambush in Rivers State. But the heavy presence of security forced the assailants to take to their heels. The attack came between Omoku, the […]
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Headlines, National Politics, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, March 14th, 2016
The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Abayomi Adesanya, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State. Adesanya said a state of emergency was necessary in order to forestall political violence and the breakdown of law and order in the state. The APC chieftain, in […]
