Violence mars peaceful protests in Port Harcourt
Reports pouring in from the streets suggest today’s protest in Port Harcourt turned violent. There are indications that while some persons may have died as a result, a number of public properties were set ablaze. The State Public Relations Officer of the Police, Nnamdi Omoni…
Developing story: Wike fails to obtain exparte motion against Nwuzi
As the fight between the APC and the PDP over defections deepens, the PDP in Rivers State has failed to obtain an exparte motion against Hon. Ephraim Nwuzi, a member of the House of Representatives representing Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency. The PDP, according to information reaching…
Protesters force Wike out
Protesters defied the order of Governor Nyesom Wike and stormed the streets as part of the ongoing #endSars campaign. The Police Force which has its back to the wall had across the country granted demonstrators permission to embark on peaceful protests. Efforts at the last…
River People In One Chance – Hon. Nwuke
Hon Ogbonna Nwuke is a Journalist and politician. He is the Publisher of the Port Harcourt Telegraph, a former Director of Press Affairs to Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State, one-time Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications as well as a…
Missiles from Oyigbo find their target, devastate Akawor
Chisom Promise Dike isn’t the noisy type. His constituents say he is a gentleman who minds his business and reaches out to as many people as he can. The lawmaker who recently rejected a car gift from Governor Nyesom Wike had drawn the ire of…
Mixed reactions greet withdrawal of Covid-19 buses
Reactions have begun to trail the sudden withdrawal of the fleet of the Free Covid-19 buses scattered into the roads by the Rivers state government as a part of the measures in tackling the frightening rising rate of the Corona Virus pandemic in the state….
Ogbakor Etche embarks on skills acquisition drive
The Ogbakor Etche Monday at Okehi commenced a skills training scheme which is expected to benefit approximately 30 youths drawn from the Etche ethnic nation. The scheme is being run in conjunction with Shell Petroleum Development Company. Speaking at the take off of the Scheme,…
Dickson set to battle APC in Senate race
Away from Edo and Ondo states where gubernatorial elections have captured public imagination, Bayelsa State is getting ready for bye-elections to fill vacant senatorial seats. Apparently, those seats were vacated by Governor Diri and his deputy who were serving senators as at the time they…
Unbelievable: Woman returns from the land of the dead
A woman aged about 60 years old has come back to life after she was pronounced dead. Sons and daughters of Okomoko Community in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State had learnt that Mrs Nwachi Benson Onyenma Nwuke had died in the early…
Crisis in Wike’s PDP
Governor Nyesom Wike may be wining and dining at Government House, Port Harcourt, over Obaseki’s victory in Edo which is being attributed to him by his admirers, but a moment of realism now awaits him. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, under his watch as leader…
