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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Friday, October 19th, 2012
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Oct. 19, 2012 – Biringa Chiadika Lordson, a Theatre Arts student, Ugonna Kelechi Obusor, a Geology undergraduate, Mike Lloyd Toku, a Civil Engineering student, all year two students of the University of Port Harcourt, and Tekena Elkanah, a Certificate in Education student of the same university, knew pretty […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, October 19th, 2012
The Nigerian Police Force have dismissed a Sergeant identified as Lucky Orji, who was allegedly involved in the gruesome murder of the students, following the confessions of one of the arrested suspects who claimed that a police man was part of the mob. The sergeant was dismissed for ordering the mob to kill the suspected […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
October 18, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt 128 Comments Suspects paraded at the Rivers State Police command. | credits: Chukwudi Akasike THE Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday remanded 13 suspects arrested in connection with the killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt. The accused persons were […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
The police on Tuesday announced a major breakthrough in their investigation into the lynching of four University of Port Harcourt students. The videotaped lynching of the students sparked outrage nationwide and the clip of the killings went viral on the Internet. The IG disclosed the arrest during a security meeting with Chief Executive Officers and […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, October 15th, 2012
Father of one of the students murdered by a mob at Aluu, River State, Mr. Mike Toku, has described as a deliberate cover-up the continued denial by members of the community that they had no hand in the killing of his son, Lloyd Toku insisted that his son and three other students of the University […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, October 12th, 2012
From TONY JOHN, Port-Harcourt A sister of one of the four University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) students brutally murdered last Friday in Umuokiri village, Aluu, Rivers State, has narrated how her younger brother and his friends were lynched. Miss Ibisobia Elkanah, elder sister of Tekena Friday Elkanah, revealed yesterday that policemen visited the scene where […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
ONE of the parents of the slain UNIPORT students, Mr. Steven Biringa, has insisted that his son, Chiadika, was labelled a thief by his assailants so that they could find a reason to kill him. Biringa told our correspondent in Port Harcour, Rivers State on Thursday that his son had a good upbringing. He said […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
by Chukwudi Akasike 165 Comments Vandalised vehicles. Inset:Ahanonu in his burnt house. | credits: Chukwudi Akasike THE people of Omuokiri Aluu Community have begun to count their losses barely 24 hours after students from the University of Port Harcourt embarked on reprisals to avenge the killings of their colleagues. The angry students had on Tuesday […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
October 9, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Mr. and Mrs. Toku in Port Harcourt … on Monday | credits: Chukwudi Akasike Mrs. Jane Toku, the mother of Lloyd, one of the four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt that were lynched at Aluu community in Rivers State, says her son’s death will always […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
October 9, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt 36 Comments Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Joseph Ajienka | credits: THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Joseph Ajienka, said on Monday that the institution had begun a seven-day mourning of the killings of their students by a mob. Ajienka, who […]
