Rivers chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Wednesday, joined in the nationwide protest against removal of fuel subsidy with a demand on the federal government reverse the policy. They also demanded that the federal government should rehabilitate the nation’s refineries as to enhance local refining of petroleum products …
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Men of Rumuji Police Division, Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers State, have arrested a pastor, simply identified as Pillar, for alleged defilement of a 15-year-old girl, which has resulted in pregnancy. The arrest of the pastor of a new generation church in Ndele community followed compliant by Mr. Amesi ThankGod, …
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THE serenity of Elekahia community in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State was shattered on Friday as an 18-year-old boy allegedly took his own life. The incident occurred around 3pm on Friday on Aholu Street, Elekahia, a densely populated area. Our correspondent, who visited the community, …
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A girl, identified as Nnnena Onu working for a hotel in Ebocha in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, has been allegedly tortured to death by her employer following her failure to account for the sum of N17,500. It was gathered that the girl was locked in one …
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A notorious leader of a kidnap gang terrorising the Emohua axis of the East-West Road, Onuigwe Nwodi and three members of his gang have been gunned down by the police. It was gathered Nwodi, who had kidnapped, injured and killed travellers plying the East-West road, was killed in Okirika during …
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A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced the presiding pastor of a new generation Church, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for multiple murders. Pastor Okoroafor, who is the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in Oyigbo, Rivers State, was standing trial for …
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Gunmen have kidnapped one Mr Justice Azunda, a protocol officer to the immediate past Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Emeka Woke. The gunmen had invaded the Isiodu community where Mr Azunda and others were in a meeting, shot sporadically in a commando style before whisking him away. …
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Unknown gunmen have reportedly shot dead a man identified as Kinikanwo Ojindah, popularly called Agala, in Ogbakiri community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Ojindah, an indigene of Rumuokani village in Ogbakiri community, was reportedly shot on Sunday night in his apartment by men who introduced themselves as “government”. …
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Two entertainment centres, the CSKR Hotels and Priscy’s Bar and Suites both in Elekahia, Port Harcourt, Rivers State were early on Monday morning sealed by armed policemen. Staff and lodgers at the two sealed facilities were forcefully ordered out of the premises by the security operatives who stormed there in …
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The Rivers State Government on Friday began the demolition of a set of buildings belonging to the Bayelsa State Government on Akassa Street, Old GRA axis of Port Harcourt. The properties are on a large expanse of land at numbers 5 and 9 Akassa Street in the high brow Old …
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