Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has slammed his opponents in the April 2011 governorship race in the state on the use of character assassination rather than issues of what they intend doing for the State and how they want to go about it. He insisted that they shut their mouths, if they have nothing […]
No fewer that 14 persons lost their lives on Tuesday night along the Benin-Ore federal highway. Five others who sustained serious injuries are in hospital. In another accident, a car knocked down three primary school children yesterday in Port Harcourt. Two of the children-a boy and a girl- died on the spot while the third […]
A lecturer at the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Mr. Clement Faar, was one of the two persons shot dead by three gunmen, who stormed his compound at Yeghe in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The other victim, who was identified as a Canada-based Nigerian, Mr. Pius Gbarazia, was with […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday, ordered the nation’s security agencies to undertake special training courses on crowd control. Jonathan issued the directive at the Federal Executive council meeting on Wednesday The directive followed the loss of several lives in a stampede at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium when Jonathan inaugurated his presidential campaign in the […]
WITNESSES at the presidential panel of inquiry into the causes of the last weekend stampede at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State have blamed security operatives from the presidency for the tragic incident in which about 12 persons lost their lives. Meanwhile, the Delta State government has pledged to cater […]
Several people were feared to have been killed on Saturday in a stampede at an election campaign rally for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the oil city of Port Harcourt, witnesses said. Thousands of ruling party supporters crowded into a sports stadium to hear Jonathan speak and hundreds more gathered around the gates. There was […]
Not less than N56.7 million has been carted away by armed robbers who attacked a van belonging to a company in Port Harcourt. The robbers also killed a policeman in the van and wounded the driver and the company’s accountant. It was gathered that the money was being conveyed to a commercial bank for lodgment […]
The State Security Services (SSS), on Wednesday, paraded two suspected militants for allegedly re-establishing militant camps around Kula in the Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. Parading the suspects in Port Harcourt alongside 11 others, who had allegedly been involved in impersonation, the Director of the service in Rivers State, Douglas Dogo, said the […]
SPECIAL Assistant to Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi on Students Affairs, Dike Princewill, has been arrested by the State Security Services (SSS) for purportedly threatening to kill the governor. The Assistant Director, Operations and Intelligence, Mr. Kunle Ajanaku, disclosed yesterday that Amaechi’s aide was arrested at the weekend for sending death threats through short message […]
THE Rivers State Police Command said it had begun a manhunt for the gunmen who ambushed some Christian pilgrims, who were on their way to the Port Harcourt International Airport enroute to Jerusalem. The gunmen had on Thursday shot and killed three policemen who were escorting the pilgrims to the airport. State Police Public […]
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