Four persons have been confirmed killed during a stampede at Rivers state when President Muhammadu Buhari stormed the state for his campaign rally. The Rivers state Police Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni confirmed the development in a statement. Meanwhile, the Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, confirmed that fourteen persons died while some survivors are under medical […]
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has charged Nigerians to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) across the country for Nigeria to return to the days of performance and development. Addressing thousands of supporters during the PDP Campaign Rally at Obio/Akpor Local Government Area on Saturday, Governor Wike said that it is only under […]
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For the second time in about three months, the Rivers State Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday blocked the main entrance to the corporate headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission in Port Harcourt over alleged unpaid taxes. The RIRS had said on April 26, 2018 when the premises of the commission was first barricaded that […]
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The regional office of 9mobile (formerly Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service) in Rivers State has been shut over alleged non-payment of Pay As You Earn taxes of expatriates working for the firm to the tune of ₦108 million. 9mobile said the clampdown on the telecom structure by the Rivers Internal Revenue commenced on June 26, 2018. […]
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, said that his administration was able to pay the salaries of civil servants in June 2018 despite the absence of any release from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee. Wike explained that his government was able to pay workers as a result of its careful financial engineering. The governor, who […]
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Bille Kingdom in Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, has given a number of conditions to the Federal Government on the move to end oil bunkering in the area, demanding that the government should give the kingdom licence to operate a modular refinery. Bille Kingdom made the demand, weekend, when the former governor of Bayelsa […]
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The Federal Government currently needs about $16 billion to actualise some of the programmes already approved for the Ministry of Transportation. The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. Amaechi said the sum […]
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The Rivers State government and Nigeria’s leading indigenous energy company, Oando PLC, are closing in on the completion of an 8.5 kilometres expansion of the natural gas distribution network in the Port Harcourt Franchise Area from the Above-Ground Installation (AGI), in Trans-Amadi, to BUA Sugar Refineries (BUA). The project is being executed by the Central […]
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No fewer than fifty suspected militants and owners of illegal refineries have been taken into custody by men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Rivers State and about 15 illegal refineries in different locations in the Niger Delta region destroyed. Commandant-General of NSCDC, Abdullahi Muhammadu, told newsmen in a press briefing […]
Read More Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Friday destroyed over 700 drums of illegally refined automotive gas oil popularly known as diesel, Punchng reported. The men of the NSCDC, Rivers State Command, had after being tipped off, stormed an illegal warehouse used in storing refined AGO in large quantities in Ogbogoro community, […]
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The Rivers State government has said that transport minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has to tell the people of the state how he spent the N3 trillion that accrued to the state for eight years that he served as Governor. The commissioner for information, Dr. Austin Tam-George, who stated this at a briefing on the Supreme […]
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AT least, 12 persons are feared killed following an attack by bandits suspected to be sea pirates. The sea pirates reportedly operated along the waterways in Kula Community in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. The deceased were in four boats when they were attacked by pirates. They reportedly drowned in the sea. It […]
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