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  … As Joint Venture, NUPRC Re-Commit to Host Community Development The Ugama Ekede, Ayama Ekede, Asukama, and Asukoyet Host Community Development Trust (UAAA HCDT) has awarded scholarships and bursaries to over 1,200 students in Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State. The scholarship award was in partnership with its settlor, …

  By Mandy Willy   In a historic academic milestone, 22 year-old Dr. Reason Ebubechukwu Onya has become the first Nigerian of Rivers State origin to graduate with a Gold Diploma and Gold Medal from the prestigious I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russia’s oldest and most esteemed medical …

Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt   Following the recent reconciliation of the political quarrel between suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, the Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum has called for the lifting of State of Emergency imposed on the State. They also called for …

  By Uwem Offon, Uyo   Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, has re-emphasized his commitment to rural development in the state, while flagging off the construction of the 12.5km Nung Ukim Ikono – Afaha Obio Enwang – Nung Udoe Itak Road in Uyo and Ikono local government …

  Port Harcourt-based construction, engineering and logistics company, East Konsult Limited, has been honoured as the ‘Most Distinguished Corporate Organization of the Year’ by the Niger Delta Media Practitioners of Nigeria (NDMPN). Convener of Niger Delta Media Practitioners of Nigeria (NDMPN), Amb. Joseph Asomeji, the conferment was based on extensive …

  Commendations have continued to pour in for Rivers Angels Football Club of Port Harcourt, following her feat of emerging champion of the 2025 edition of the Nigeria Challenge Cup, now rechristened President /Federation Cup. The latest came from the chairman of Rivers Angels Supporters Club, Hon. lnnocent Ajaelu, who …

    The Rivers State Response Team on Violence Against Women & Children has called on the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, to order the arrest and prosecution of one Pastor Ugochukwu Udechukwu Hede, general overseer of Divine Grace City of the Great King Deliverance Ministry. The group …

  By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Leading journalists and media executives have resolved to seize the initiative of setting agenda for the 2027 political dispensation, insisting that it was part of the innate responsibilities of the media to do so. They agreed that the role of setting political agenda should …

By Tina Amanda   As Nigeria confronts a growing wave of youth nicotine addiction, experts are raising alarm over the tobacco industry’s latest ploy: e-cigarettes and vaping products promoted as “safer alternatives” to smoking. Almost a century after tobacco companies misled the American public with false claims about the safety …

  By Mercy Wai-Ogosu   Women of Efeche Akpali Community of Obokolo, in Okpoku Local Government Area of Benue State, have called on Dangote Coal Mining Company to undertake full remediation of their community land they insist the company used and abandoned. The women made this call recently after conducting …