Tag: RIVERS
Student reportedly releases teargas in Rivers school
A student of Community Secondary School (CSS), Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has allegedly sent the school scampering after detonating teargas in class.
The incident...
Wike threatens to unseat monarchs over kidnapping, cultism
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has threatened to dethrone
traditional rulers whose communities encourage cultism and kidnapping.
Wike, visibly upset with rising insecurity in the state,...
Two Shell workers kidnapped in Rivers regain freedom
Two employees of Shell Nigeria in Rivers State
who were kidnapped last Thursday along Ahoada-Ndele-Rumuji-Emohua axis of
East-West road, Rivers, have been freed.
Police in the state...
Again, gunmen kidnap two expatriates in Rivers
Two expatriates suspected to be Scottish and Canadian have been kidnapped from an oil rig in Abua-Odua local government area of Rivers State.
Spokesman of...
Policemen killed as gunmen kidnap two Shell workers in Rivers
Gunmen have kidnapped two employees of Shell Nigeria in Rivers State, killing two police escorts in the process.
The incident is said to have...
Three policemen, community chief murdered in Rivers
Three policemen and a community chief have
lost their lives in Iriebe, Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State.
Also killed by suspected gunmen is the...
Four NEMA staff kidnapped in Rivers
Suspected gunmen have kidnapped four members of staff of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Abua-Odual local government area of Rivers State.
South South zonal...
Policeman allegedly stabs man to death in Rivers
The alleged stabbing of a 20-year-old man, Nyebuchi
Ihunwo, to death by a policeman in Atali community under Obio/Akpor local
government area of Rivers State has...
Wike suspends 12 local government chairmen
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has announced the
suspension of 12 local government chairmen in the state.
The governor announced their suspension in a statement
on Thursday...
Wike finally receives certificate of return
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday presented the certificate of return to the re-elected Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, at the commission’s...