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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
UNIPORT killings: Court discharges 7 suspects News Friday, March 1, 2013 Arrested suspects paraded by the Police in Port Harcourt. advertisement By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT-A Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate, Mr. Emma Woke, Rivers State, has discharged seven out of the 18 suspects, arrested in connection with the killing of four students of the University […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
advertisement By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT— Some female students of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Port Harcourt, have been displaced, following a dawn fire, which razed one of the female hostels on campus. The fire consumed the entire Hostel A2 bungalow, displacing official residents and several squatters in over 30 rooms with […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Rivers, State News
Monday, February 25th, 2013
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor LAGOS — The Presidency was, last night, jittery, following the collapse of plans to remove Governor Chibuike Amaechi as chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF. The failure of the plans which got to fever pitch, yesterday, forced presidency officials into a change of plans ahead of today’s scheduled election […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
By Odimegwu Onwumere / Rivers, Nigeria / Feb. 23, 2013 – Dr. Dennis O’Grady tells us in “Bottom Line – Personal” that change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn’t all bad — not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life — to keep us moving… to keep us […]
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Latest Politics, Raw Politics, Rivers, State News
Friday, February 1st, 2013
The former leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has attacked the Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi; and the Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Orubebe, saying there is no difference between the two. “Amaechi and Orubebe are Siamese twins; there is no difference between them,” he said. Apparently peeved […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

By Odimgwu Onwumere / NNP / Jan. 23, 2013 – The optimum security that a people should contend first to acquire is knowledge, which will in turn provide them with every other security they may so desire and need. One Henry Ford corroborates this statement when he was quoted as saying that many people think […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state has again stated that he has no presidential ambition saying those behind the rumour are those who don’t like Rivers state. Chatting with Journalists after an investment Forum and a town hall meeting in Houston, Texas, the governor said the task ahead of him now is to govern Rivers […]
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Aviation, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
THERE were anxious moments last Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport when a passenger on board a Lagos-bound Aero aircraft attempted to disembark from the plane at the point of take-off. His action triggered off suspicion in other passengers that he might have planted a bomb in the plane and was struggling to disembark […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, January 12th, 2013
The Rivers State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, says the continued flagrant abuse of government offices and positions by government officials and political office holders in the state is an indication that the Peoples Democratic Part, PDP, ruling State government has lost control and should surrender before the entire state is grounded. […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Port Harcourt – Mr Babalola Ogundana, the Controller, Rivers State Command of the Nigerian Prisons, said on Thursday that wardens under his command were not responsible for the impregnation of female inmates. Ogundana told reporters in an interview in Port Harcourt that the affected expectant female prisoners were pregnant before their imprisonments. Investigation reveals that […]