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A taxi driver whose identity is yet to be ascertained was killed on Sunday night, June 1, 2025, around Echue axis/ Illabouchi, Mile 2 Diobu, Port Harcourt, as suspected factions of Deygbam cult groups engaged in supremacy battle, we learnt. We gathered that the taxi driver was killed during a shootout between suspected factions of…
Katherine Abayomi. There is an allegation of diversion of ₦21 million, meant for the renewal of a telecommunications mast at the Port Harcourt Zoo, into a dormant Access Bank account belonging to the Rivers State Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Sources revealed that the payment was made by a telecommunications company expected to be remitted…
Tracy Ohovwore, Benin City The Edo State Government has commenced a profiling exercise for property owners in the New City Development Area, formerly Coral City, as part of Governor Monday Okpebholo’s renewed efforts to resolve lingering community land disputes. A statement issued on Sunday, May 31, and signed by the Secretary to the Edo State…
Tracy Ohovwore, Benin City In a strategic move to fight the growing menace of drug trafficking and substance abuse in Edo State, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has initiated a series of high-level engagements with top security stakeholders across the state. The working visit, led by the Edo State Commander of the NDLEA,…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have dismantled a syndicate that sends drug mules on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. According to the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, the syndicate disguised as sponsors on a holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, but the real intention was to use the pilgrims as couriers…
The presentation of a 30-kilometre segment of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as a completed and commission-worthy project has drawn sharp criticism from NEFGAD, a leading public procurement advocacy group in Nigeria. In a statement signed at the weekend by its country head of office, Mr Akingunola Omoniyi, NEFGAD said it notes with deep concern that…
Barikui Felix Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (Rtd), the sole administrator of Rivers State, has affirmed that educational development will remain a cardinal pillar of his administration. Ibas stated this revelation while speaking at the 43rd Convocation Ceremony of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt. Represented by the Secretary to the…
Barikui Felix In gratitude to God, women from across Rivers State, under the banner of Rivers Women Unite for SIM (RWUS), gathered at the Ecumenical Centre in Port Harcourt to celebrate the second anniversary of suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara with a special thanksgiving service. The women said the event expressed appreciation for Governor Fubara’s steadfast…
Barikui Felix Recent moves by the Federal Government to resume crude oil production in Ogoniland with a capacity for 200,000b/PD have received a boost as Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, PINL, on Thursday brokered peace among warring factions of the oil-bearing community. The peace deal, which brings to an end decades of bloody intra-community conflicts which…
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has promised to give scholarship to children of the eight slain civilian JTF members. The eight members of the Force were tragically killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack along the Dikwa-Marte road on Tuesday. The governor also announced an immediate N5 million assistance to each of the…
