Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, Chief Nyesome Wike, and Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, have been accused of endangering peace in the State through their open support for political brigandage. Making the allegation on Monday in Port
At least two persons were feared killed in Buguma town, headquarters of Asari Toru local government area of Rivers State when armed youths blew up a public building. Sources said the building in Kalabari National College was set ablaze because the gunmen, who entered the town on Friday night, thought that sensitive election materials were […]
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state on Thursday stated that the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr. Nyesom Wike, was capable of anything including betraying his biological mother for the love of money. Amaechi who stated this while speaking at a town hall meeting in Port Harcourt on Thursday, described […]
Fire has razed down the Rivers state secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) located at Igboku Street, D/Line, Port-Harcourt. The fire, according to eye witnesses, started at 4:00am destroying the building and documents belonging to the union. Some persons around in the area have allegedly attributed the inferno to have ignited from an electrical […]
The Rivers Elders and Leadership Council (RELEC) has called on the people of the Niger Delta state to massively vote on Saturday for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside. The leaders insisted that another Ikwerre person would not be allowed to succeed Governor Rotimi Amaechi, an Ikwerre from […]
Sequel to the presidential and national assembly elections which was swept by All Progressives Congress (APC), all eyes are now on Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections. Would there be a bandwagon effect in all the states election would hold or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) pull off stiff resistance to retain its hold? […]
Sixteen political parties from Rivers State, on Tuesday, stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, demanding the removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state. The parties specifically accused the REC in the state, Ms Gesilia Khan, of impinging on the integrity of the March 28 presidential election. […]
A crowd of protesters numbering close to 1000 from Rivers state have laid siege at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to demand the immediate removal of the resident electoral commissioner of the state, Gesila Khan. Details to come later
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has expressed surprise that the committee set up by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to investigate the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state failed to meet with it. The APC had complained to INEC over alleged disenfranchisement […]
Right from the word go, even well before the election period, Rivers State has stood up, along few other states as red light zones in the ongoing 2015 polls. It was then no big deal when the D-day came and things were not different from the projections. Immediately words filtered out that the State […]
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed Rivers State on Monday as tensions ran high over the presidential and National Assembly election, the state government. While some female members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) organized a street protest demanding the cancellation of the election result, a counter protest was organized by the Peoples Democratic Party […]
Rivers State Deputy Governor, Mr Tele Ikuru, on Monday said he was deceived by his boss, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) and called on the people of the state to fight the APC which he described as an evil at the gate. Also, the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic […]
Dozens of members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday protest the indiscriminate arrests and detention of members of the party by the Police. Protesters who came from all the 23 local government areas carried placards which read, ‘Police stop treating APC supporters as criminals’, ‘DCP Amadi, remember […]
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, has raised the alarm that the pre-election violence that engulfed the state, is becoming an epidemic for the health sector to manage. Dr. Parker, who addressed journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, lamented that the number of casualties, attended to by the various health care facilities across […]
