THE Rivers State Police Command says the killing of a former student leader, Endwell Ejindu, was not connected to the ongoing clashes by political factions in the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, made this known in an interview with journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on …
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THE Police Command in Rivers said its officers killed the notorious Greenland cult leader, Izuma Odiereke, also known as Solution, in a shootout in Ahoada Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers. The Commissioner of Police in Rivers, CP Olatunji Disu, disclosed this through a statement released by the command’s spokesperson, …
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ONE Police officer was killed when gunmen in a Sienna bus opened fire on officers who were conducting a stop and search in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. In a statement issued on Friday, the spokesperson for the Rivers Police Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, condemned the attack, detailing that the …
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THE Rivers State Police Command has arrested a pregnant woman identified as Blessing Godday for allegedly stabbing another woman, Mrs Imeran Idema, to death over a bunch of plantain allegedly stolen by the former in Adada community in the Abua/Odual Local Government Area of the state. Blessing, 32, who is …
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A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has sentenced three men, Boma Thompson, Emelike Mathias, and Daniel Thankgod, to death by hanging. Newsextra24 learnt that four suspects were charged for the kidnapping and murder of Abbot Ogbobula in June 2017, but the court discharged and acquitted one of them …
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A wanted cult leader, Silas Oderereke, and his accomplice were killed during a shootout at the Oderereke community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers state, according to the Rivers State Police command. Oderereke, also referred to as “general,” is the head of the Greenlander cult group in the Ubie …
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TWO South Korean citizens who were victims of a kidnapping incident in Rivers State, Nigeria, about a month ago, have regained their freedom. Newsextra24 reports that their release was confirmed in a statement issued on Saturday (today) by the foreign ministry in Seoul. According to Seoul’s Yonhap news agency, the two individuals, who …
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THE Rivers State Police Command says its operatives gunned down two notorious kidnappers, including a gang leader nicknamed ‘Occasion’ during a gun battle in a forest in Emuoha Local Government Area of the State. The Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, made this revelation in a statement issued in Port …
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A Magistrate Court has remanded a 400-level student of Petrochemical Engineering in the University of Port Harcourt, Damian Okoligwe, who was accused of killing his girlfriend, Justina Otuene, a 300-level student of Biochemistry at the same university. When the matter came up on Monday, the prosecuting counsel appealed to the …
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GUNMEN suspected to be cultists have killed at least five persons in the Ahoada area of Rivers State. The incident occurred on Sunday morning when the armed men reportedly invaded the Odiemerenyi Community in Ahoada East Local Government Area and opened fire on unsuspecting residents. Details of the incident were …
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