•S’Court did not reinstate Amaehwule, 26 others as Assembly members – RSG •Pro-Wike lawmakers hail Apex Court ruling •No calls for Alarm – Amachree Emma Sunday Mixed reactions have continued to trail Monday’s Supreme Court’s dismissal of the appeal filed by the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara on the …
Read More »BREAKING NEWS: Court Restrains Factional MOSOP Presidents from Parading
… Set to Give Accelerated Hearing Factional leaders laying claim to the exalted office of President of the Movement for Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) have been ordered to henceforth restrain from parading or acting as such. The Rivers State High Court, Judicial Division Saakpenwa, presided over by Daketima G. …
Read More »Rivers: Gov Fubara Signs N1.188trn 2025 Budget into law
Emma Sunday Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has insisted that there is only one House of Assembly existing in the State, and it is led by Rt Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo. Governor Fubara made the clarification shortly after giving assent to the Rivers State Appropriation Law No.1 of 2025, at …
Read More »Chief of Army Staff, Toareed Lagbaja dead, as Tinubu Postpones FEC Meeting
Emma Sunday Nigeria’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, has been confirmed dead. A statement released on Wednesday by the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced that Lagbaja died on Tuesday night in Lagos at age 56, after a protracted …
Read More »Rivers: 3 Dead as Helicopter Conveying 8 Passengers crashes into Bonny River
A helicopter conveying eight passengers, on Thursday crashed into Bonny River in Rivers State. Three lifeless bodies have been so far recovered. According to the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, eight persons were on board when the helicopter “ditched into the waters near Bonny Finima in the Atlantic Ocean.” …
Read More »NDDC launches scheme to pay 10,000 Niger Delta Youths N50,000 monthly
•As Akpabio, Ogbuku, Asari, others declare region protest-free zone Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt The President of the Senate, Chief Godswill Akpabio, yesterday launched a Youth Internship Scheme initiated by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for ten thousand youths of the Niger Delta region to be paid fifty thousand naira …
Read More »Customs intercepts 844 Riffles, 12,500 Ammunitions smuggled into Nigeria in Rivers
•Arrest 3 suspects Emma Sunday The Nigeria Customs Services has intercepted nine containers smuggling assorted arms and ammunitions, illicit drugs and fairly used clothes worth over N13.9 billion naira into the country. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi who disclosed this while briefing Journalists at the Customs Port Harcourt …
Read More »Navy rescues over 250 passengers from drowning in Rivers’ boat mishap
Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt Operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder Sunday night rescued over 250 passengers from drowning after a commercial (market) boat, ‘MV Precious Emmanuel’ conveying commodities worth millions of naira capsized along the Rivers’ waterways. The market boat, popularly known as ‘AKASA Boat’, which capsized around 10:00pm …
Read More »Rivers Assembly Threatens fresh Impeachment against Fubara
By Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt The 10th Rivers State House of Assembly has threatened to resume fresh impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara, if he continues to breach the constitution and the laws of the State. Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, made the threat on Saturday during …
Read More »Tinubu Retains Ogbuku as NDDC MD, Appoints new board members
By Emmanuel Ovundah, Port Harcourt President Bola Tinubu has renewed the tenure of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). President Tinubu, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale on Tuesday …
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