Tag: RIVERS

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has announced total abolition of all forms of fees and levies in public primary and secondary schools across the state. Mr Wike...

Governor Nyesom Wike has said that Rivers is a Christian state and that he had no apologies for saying that. Wike said this on Sunday during...

The Nigerian Army has said that a soldier and two operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were shot dead on Sunday following...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has approved a ten per cent discount on harbour dues in all concession terminals at eastern ports in the...

Suspected gunmen have kidnapped a driver of the Nation newspaper, Port Harcourt zonal office, Godknows Longjohn. The paper said Mr Longjohn was reportedly abducted at...

A student of Community Secondary School (CSS), Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has allegedly sent the school scampering after detonating teargas in class. The incident...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has threatened to dethrone traditional rulers whose communities encourage cultism and kidnapping. Wike, visibly upset with rising insecurity in the state,...

Two employees of Shell Nigeria in Rivers State who were kidnapped last Thursday along Ahoada-Ndele-Rumuji-Emohua axis of East-West road, Rivers, have been freed. Police in the state...

Two expatriates suspected to be Scottish and Canadian have been kidnapped from an oil rig in Abua-Odua local government area of Rivers State. Spokesman of...

Gunmen have kidnapped two employees of Shell Nigeria in Rivers State, killing two police escorts in the process. The incident is said to have...