A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced the presiding pastor of a new generation Church, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for multiple murders. Pastor Okoroafor, who is the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in Oyigbo, Rivers State, was standing trial for …
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Gunmen have kidnapped one Mr Justice Azunda, a protocol officer to the immediate past Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Emeka Woke. The gunmen had invaded the Isiodu community where Mr Azunda and others were in a meeting, shot sporadically in a commando style before whisking him away. …
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Unknown gunmen have reportedly shot dead a man identified as Kinikanwo Ojindah, popularly called Agala, in Ogbakiri community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Ojindah, an indigene of Rumuokani village in Ogbakiri community, was reportedly shot on Sunday night in his apartment by men who introduced themselves as “government”. …
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Two entertainment centres, the CSKR Hotels and Priscy’s Bar and Suites both in Elekahia, Port Harcourt, Rivers State were early on Monday morning sealed by armed policemen. Staff and lodgers at the two sealed facilities were forcefully ordered out of the premises by the security operatives who stormed there in …
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The Rivers State Government on Friday began the demolition of a set of buildings belonging to the Bayelsa State Government on Akassa Street, Old GRA axis of Port Harcourt. The properties are on a large expanse of land at numbers 5 and 9 Akassa Street in the high brow Old …
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A major crisis is looming between Rivers and Bayelsa states as the Rivers State Government has threatened to take over the Bayelsa State property located in the Old GRA, Port Harcourt. The development has left Bayelsa civil servants occupying the 12-flat property at Plots 34, 35 (5, Akassa Street) and …
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared Wednesday as a public holiday to enable the people of Rivers State give the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a rousing welcome. The President-elect, during his two-day official visit to Rivers State, is scheduled to commission the Rumuola/Rumuokwuta Flyover and the ultra-modern Magistrates’ Court …
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No fewer than three persons were killed while two others were abducted when gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded the Ubeta community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State on Wednesday. The gunmen reportedly ransacked the community in what appeared to be a reprisal. They were said …
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I was shocked, In my polling Unit at Woji Town Hall . OBio Akpor LGA , WARD 6 Unit 3. The turn out was Extremely low at about 9 am. At the same time on the 25th of February, Everywhere was blocked. It was Over Crowded. Turn out today is …
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A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, two former members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad for extra-judicial killing. Five members of the SARS team, ASP Samuel Chigbu, Shedrack Ibibo, Magus Awuri, Ogoligo, and Olisa Emeka, were standing …
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