2015: RIVLEAF Calls For Prayers
The leadership of the Riv ers State Leadership Advancement Foundation (RIVLEAF) has called on Christians and members of other religious groups to pray against bloodbath in the forth-coming general...
View ArticleNorthern Community Supports Amaechi, APC
The Northern Commu nity in Rivers State has thrown its weight behind the Rivers State Governor, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The...
View ArticleAssembly Committee Lauds Rivers Waste-To-Wealth Programme
The Rivers State House of Assembly Committee on Environment has described the state waste to wealth programme as a laudable venture that will ensure cleaner environment in the state. The committee...
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Robbers Raid Rivers Waste-To-Wealth Plant
Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe (left), with the Supervising Minister of Environment, Mr Dairus Ishiaku, during inspection of Kashimbilla multi-purpose dam in Taraba State, recently....
View ArticleCommunity Protests Exclusion From Shell’s Divestment Process
The Belema Community in the Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State has protested the exclusion of Belema Oil and Gas Limited by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) in...
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Oyigbo Dirtiest LG A In Rivers – RSESA
The Rivers State En vironmental Sanitation Authority (RSESA) has declared a state of emergency on refuse in Oyigbo. Public Relations Officer of the authority, Mr Olalekan Ige who said this in a...
View ArticleChoba Youths Threaten Legal Action Over Water Project
Youths of Choba community in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have threatened to drag the Choba Council of Chiefs before a competent court of jurisdiction over the non-execution of...
View ArticleLG Service Commission Reads Riot Act To Staff
Rivers State Local Gov ernment Service Commission has warned against lateness and absenteeism among staff, stressing that such acts would nolonger be tolerated. The Acting Chairman of the Commission,...
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USAID Rates Amaechi’s Overseas Scholarship Scheme High
Cross-section of executive members, Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers taking oath of office during their inauguration in Abuja recently. Photo: NAN The United States Agency for International...
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NSE, Centre To Partner On Engineering Services In Rivers
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Port Harcourt branch has pledged to partner with CADD Centre, on international training organization to improve the quality of engineering services in Rivers...
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NAFDAC Destroys Contaminated Fish In PH
Spoilt frozen fish worth over N2 million have been destroyed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Port Harcourt. The Rivers State co-ordinator of the agency,...
View ArticleRivers Women Protest Boko Haram Attacks
Thousands of Rivers State women under the aegis of Concerned Women of Nigeria (CWN) yesterday embarked on a peaceful protest over the continuous killings of innocent Nigerians by the Boko Haram sect in...
View Article‘No Govt Influence In Students’ Admission’
The management of the Ambassador Nne Furo Kurubo Model Secondary School, Ebubu, Eleme Local Government Area, has said that Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has never influenced the intake of students...
View ArticleButchers Defy Govt Order On Unhygienic Abattoir
Butchers at the Eleme Abattoir in the Eleme Local Government Area have carried on with their business as usual despite the threat by the Rivers State Government to close down the abattoir if its poor...
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Stakeholders Seek Legislation On Drainages Clean Up
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mr Taiye Haruna (left), and the Minister, Mrs Lawrencia Labaran-Mallam, during the minister’s assumption of duty in Abuja last Thursday. Photo: NAN...
View ArticleGroup Urges Support For Amaechi …Blames PDP For Violence
A socio-political orga nization in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, the Obio/Akpor Redemption Forum (ORF), has urged the people of the area to remain steadfast in their support for the Rivers State...
View ArticleGroup Threatens Attack On Sand Dredgers In Etche
The Etche Peoples Lib eration Congress, a socio-cultural organization in Etche land has renewed its 90 days ultimatum to sand dredgers to leave the area or face the wrath of the people. National...
View ArticlePolice To Support Peace Building Groups In Rivers
The Rivers State Po lice Command has pledged its readiness to support groups and organisations that preach peace in their different communities. The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, said...
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Horsfall Canvasses 1963 Constitution, Resource Control
The former chairman of the defunct Oil Minerals Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC), Chief Albert K Horsfall, has canvassed for a return to the 1963 federal constitution. Horsfall, who is...
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Authority Blames Residents For Poor Sanitation In Oyigbo
The Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority has blamed the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the Oyigbo Local Government Area on the attitude of the people. The Public Relations Officer of...
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