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Port Harcourt and the truth we must know

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 30 November 2024 0

The story of the Port Harcourt Refinery’s alleged operation is one that stands out as a significant lesson in the developing tale of Nigeria’s petroleum industry. It is replete with deceit, laced with ineptitude, and a violation of public confidence. The Nigerian National Petroleum

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‘$1.5bn P’Harcourt refinery rehabilitation a national disservice, wasteful spending’

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2021 0

Success Nwogu A retired Deputy Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, Engineer Sunday Adebayo Babalola, on Monday said the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company at $1.5 billion is a national disservice and a wasteful spending. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, despite public outcry, had in April, 2021 signed a contract with an […]

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Wike has brought peace to Port Harcourt, sustain it — SSG urges residents

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2020 0

The people and residents of Rivers State have been enjoined to support and sustain the peacebuilding efforts of Governor Nyesom Wike for a more progressive and peaceful state. READ ALSO: Wike chides UNIPORT management for involvement in mainstream politics Daily Times had learnt that the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr Tammy Danagogo, made […]

Crime

Soldiers kill policeman in Port Harcourt

Ihesiulo Grace 24 August 2020 0

A police inspector, identified as Hosea Yakubu, has reportedly been beaten to death by soldiers at Eleme Petrochemical gate, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. READ ALSO: How we helped Police rearrest serial killer Sunday… Daily Times Nigeria gathered that Yakubu and his colleague was said to have incurred the wrath of the soldiers when he drove […]

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Navy deactivates illegal refinery discovered in Rivers

Ihesiulo Grace 24 July 2020 0

An illegal refinery with 300,000 litres of diesel and a large wooden boat containing 314 barrels of crude oil in Cawthorne channel, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has been discovered, a naval drone reveals. READ ALSO: Alleged oil theft : DPR hands over 9 vessels to Navy, EFCC According to reports, the illegal refinery was consequently […]

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Edo PDP guber primary: Court strikes out suit seeking to bar Obaseki

Ihesiulo Grace 25 June 2020 0

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out the suit filed by Mr. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama stopping Governor Godwin Obaseki from participating in today’s PDP governorship primary in Edo State. A counsel to the plaintiff, D. C. Denwigwe (SAN), had in an oral application during resumption of the hearing on Wednesday, […]

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Rivers debunks rumours on exhuming corpse of Asari Toru LG boss

Ihesiulo Grace 31 May 2020 0

The Rivers state government has debunked rumours making the rounds that the body of the late Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Odiari Princewill, has been exhumed from the Port Harcourt Cemetery, describing it as baseless and untrue. A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Paulinus Nsirim, and circulated in […]

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Manager of demolished Rivers hotel rejects COVID-19 test result

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2020 0

The embattled manager of the demolished Prudent Hotel, Alode-Eleme, near Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Dr. Bariledum Azoroh, has rejected the result of his coronavirus test presented to him on Sunday which was said to have come out positive. Recall that the manager was found guilty by a court for flouting Governor Wike’s COVID-19 Executive Order […]

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Wike arrests 14 persons hiding inside 2 trailers

Ihesiulo Grace 9 May 2020 0

…Orders their prosecution and testing for coronavirus …Declares that the trailers, cattle will be auctioned As the lockdown in parts of Rivers state continues, the Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday effected the arrests of 14 persons hidden in two trailers conveying cattle from Adamawa state to Port Harcourt in spite of the border closure. Governor […]

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Wike orders demolition of hotels operating during lockdown

Ihesiulo Grace 8 May 2020 0

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has directed officials of the Local Government Task Force to identify hotels operating during the lockdown for demolition, following the spread on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Governor Wike gave the directive on Thursday while inaugurating the Rivers State COVID-19 Local Government Task Force at the Government House […]

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COVID-19: Church distributes food, money to less privileged in Port Harcourt

Ihesiulo Grace 31 March 2020 0

Omega Power Ministries (OPM) worldwide has reopened its free restaurant in Port Harcourt, Rivers, to help feed the less privileged following the stay-at-home order aimed at curtailing the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). A statement issued on Tuesday by Pastor Isaiah Gogo-Ogute, Public Relation Officer of OPM, quoted Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, the General Overseer of

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NYCN collapses factions, unanimously adopts Sukubo as President

Ihesiulo Grace 9 March 2020 0

Unity has returned to the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) as all factions has closed their ranks and adopt Amb. Sukubo Saraigbe Sukubo as President of the apex youth body in Nigeria. The over eight years crisis rocking the council finally came to rest as factional leaders such as Amb. Oladele John Nihi, Comrade […]

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{Photos} Port Harcourt women show inherent domestic violence to husbands over side chick

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2020 0

A Port Harcourt woman Stabbed her husband to death during arguements. READ ALSO: FG approves new uniform for correctional service Another jealous wife poured her husband hot water for buying side chick brand new phone.

Featured Health

Oil spill: FG opens laboratory in Port Harcourt

Ihesiulo Grace 11 January 2020 0

Port Harcourt – The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated a multi-million naira laboratory in Port Harcourt to detect and analyse samples of oil spillage in the country. The Minister of State for Environment, Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, disclosed this while also inaugurating the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) office building in Port Harcourt.

Opinion

The examples of Pastor David Ibiyeomie

Ihesiulo Grace 8 January 2020 0

Growing up as a young boy in Port Harcourt, I developed a somewhat argumentative relationship with religion from the age of 12. I had been taught at Sunday school that Satan, a man I had never met, was responsible for the outbreak of measles and cholera that had ravaged many communities. He was the hidden […]

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Uniport final year student commits suicide

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2019 0

A final year student of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) identified as Prince Digbani reportedly committed suicide at his off-campus apartment in Aluu on Monday November 25. The department of electrical engineering student was reportedly advised against committing suicide after hinting about it while telling his friends that “he doesn’t feel

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Recruitment: Navy releases list of successful candidates for training school

Ihesiulo Grace 11 October 2019 0

Nigerian Navy has released the list of successful candidates in the 2019 recruitment interview held in Lagos between July 29 and Aug. 27. Navy Director of Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, adding that the list could be accessed online at www.joinnigeriannavy.com. Dahun said the successful candidates would […]

Aviation Business

MMIA passengers to enjoy free WiFi

Ihesiulo Grace 11 October 2019 0

Passengers using the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Ikeja will soon start enjoying free WiFi services at the airport. The airport manager, Mrs Victoria Shin-Aba who disclosed at this year’s customer service week organised by the servicom department of FAAN, said the provision of the free WiFi was part of the innovation introduced to improve on […]

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Wike in Addis Ababa to finalise permanent flights by Ethiopian Airlines from Port Harcourt

Ihesiulo Grace 9 October 2019 0

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike is in Ethiopia on the invitation of the management of Ethiopian Airlines to conclude talks on the operation of  permanent international flights by the leading African Airlines from the Port Harcourt International Airport . At  present, Ethiopian Airlines is operating temporary international flights from the Port Harcourt

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Complete Bonny – Port Harcourt Road to reduce sea piracy, Senate tells FG

Ihesiulo Grace 3 October 2019 0

The Senate has tasked the federal government to expedite action on the completion of the Bonny -Port – Harcourt Road project to minimize incidences of sea piracy on the waterways. Also, it mandated the nation’s security agencies to ensure adequate security of lives and properties and to make the nation’s waterways safe and secure for […]