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Swears-in New SSG Emma Sunday  The Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd.) has announced the suspension of all political appointees, and office holders in the state. The Administrator, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt Wednesday and signed by his unnamed Chief of Staff, said the suspensions …

•Declare total war on vandals, troublemakers, criminals • Arrest 8 suspected kidnappers, rescue 6 victims  Emma Sunday  Following reports of recent attacks on oil and gas facilities, amidst other crime related activities that have greeted the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State, the Nigeria Police Force, the military, …

•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 …

… 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. …

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 …

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 …

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.”  …

•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 …

•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 …

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 …