By Mandy Tina A man, identified as Michael Chidozie, has been arrested and detained by the Rivers State Police Command for allegedly beating his thirty-two year old wife, Mrs Ufuoma Chidozie, to death on Tuesday night, 5 March, 2024, at their residence at Agip axis of Mile 4, Port Harcourt. …
Read More »Healthcare: Bayelsa Mulls Building Residential Quarters for Doctors
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Government has indicated its readiness to partner the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) to build a residential estate for medical doctors at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri. The deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, gave the indication on Thursday …
Read More »‘Operation Delta Safe’ Uncovers ‘Large Scale’ Bunkering Sites in Rivers
By Amos Odhe The Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), on Wednesday uncovered two vast oil bunkering sites in Samkiri community, a small settlement located in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. A tour of the sites by the OPDS commander, Rear Admiral John Okeke, represented by the …
Read More »Foundation to Launch Education Champion League in Rivers
… Seeks to Encourage Reading, Writing Culture among Youths By Godwin Chukwumaechi Peace, social justice and good governance advocacy group, the Rivers Unity House Foundation, UHF has announced its readiness to start the Education Champions League in the state, to be know as the ECL Quiz and Debate Competitions for …
Read More »Election Petition: Probe Adeleye’s Appointment as Tribunal Chair in Sylva/Diri Case ~ Bayelsa Professionals
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Bayelsa Professional Forum (BPF) has called on the president of the Appeal Court to launch an investigation into “the processes that led to the appointment of Justice Adekunle Adeleye as the Election Petition Tribunal’s chairman in the case between the Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri …
Read More »Relief International Africa Launch Human Rights Clinic in Port Harcourt
By Mandy Tina A civil society organization known as Relief International Africa has opened a Human Rights Clinic, in order to promote and protect the rights of people across the country. Speaking during the human rights clinic launch, the executive director of Relief International Africa, Green Isaac, said the Nigerian …
Read More »HYPREP: Bomu Community Decry ‘Poor Handling of Clean-Up’
Members of the Bomu Community, in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, have rained alarm over the “poor handling of the clean-up exercise in their community by the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project (HYPREP). Represented by a community leader, Chief Roland Oku who is a member of the royal …
Read More »‘Operation Delta Sanity’: Navy Destroys Illegal Refining Sites in Bayelsa
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO, in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa has destroyed three illegal refinery sites and a large wooden boat laden with about 160,000 litres of products suspected to be stolen crude oil. The operation, our correspondent gathered, was in …
Read More »Diri, Ndiomu, Ogbuku, Boyloaf, Ateke Bag Niger Delta Peace Award
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri; the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP); Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (red); the managing director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, and King Ateke Tom have received the Niger Delta Peace Award. Others, who got the Peace Advocate …
Read More »Unity House Proposes Economic Summit for Rivers
By Chukwumaechi Godwin The Rivers Unity House Foundation, a peace, social justice and good governance advocacy group has made a call for an economic summit in Rivers State to chart a development course for the state. Convener of the UHF, Kingsley Wali, who made the call at a press parley …
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