By Paul I. Adujie Esq., | New York, NY | Oct. 8, 2012 | As I wrote to complain and gripe about the traffic mayhem and gridlocks on Nigerian roads last week, and more particularly so, about the traffic standstill in Choba Port Harcourt, a bridge on a major road artery in Port Harcourt actually […]
New Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim | credits: nanngronline.com OPERATIVES of the Joint Task Force, made up of soldiers, on Monday went haywire in Maiduguri, Borno State, and killed 30 persons in reprisal for the attack on their patrol vehicle in the town. Most of the victims, The PUNCH learnt, were civilians. […]
Nigerians outraged by the lynching of four University of Port Harcourt undergraduates in Aluu, Rivers State, have launched an online campaign to have the killers identified and punished. Although it was learnt that the community has been deserted following the arrest of the village head, Alhaji Hassan Walewa, and 13 others by the police, users […]
FOLLOWING the lynching of four students of the University of Port Harcourt, River State, the police have arrested Aluu community leader, Alhaji Hassan Walewa. The police on Sunday morning stormed Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, where the students were beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob. Our correspodents report that both the […]
Police in Rivers State said on Wednesday two persons were killed and a policeman injured by suspected armed robbers in Port Harcourt. Spokesman for the police in the state, Mr. Ben Ugwuegbulam, said in Port Harcourt the robbery took place between 8am and 9am along the Isaac Boro Park flyover in the city. He said […]
MOVEMENT for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, says kinsmen and women of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the Rivers State axis of Southern Nigeria, are currently living in great fear and frustration. This allegation is contained in a Save Our Souls letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, and […]
Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State on Saturday called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities to take his government to court if it was convinced that it breached the law. Amaechi made the call in reaction to the one-day warning strike by ASUU over the re-appointment of Prof. Barineme Fakae as Vice-Chancellor of Rivers […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME A faction of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP makes a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Nigeria. But does it change anything? OGONI, a leading oil-producing area of Rivers State has been quiet and calm after the August 2 declaration of self-government by the faction of the Movement for the […]
OGONI farmers on Sunday, rose in stout support of their quest for self-rule, saying they are not prepared to beat a retreat. In an online statement to AkanimoReports, they said, ”we expect that the Ogoni Self-Government can end further attempt to subject Ogoni culture to forced assimilation and destruction of our means of livelihood without […]
KINSMEN of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni environmentalist who was executed by a military dictatorship in Nigeria, have taken on the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, for describing the Ogoni quest for autonomy as a ”treasonable felony”. President of the Ogoni mass organisation, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, […]
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