port harcourt

An aircraft belonging to Nigerian airline, ValueJet has skidded off the runway at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State. Details of the incident were still sketchy at the time of filing this report but…

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared a Port Harcourt, Rivers state-based popular prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi and a celebrity couple: Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba…

Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Rivers State government to appear before it to explain why Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections should…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of masterminding the attack on its rally in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. The main opposition party in the state alleged that the…

National Chairman, of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has denied meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, the state capital. The national chairman disclosed this in a…

James Imhalu, a dismissed policeman has been sentenced to death by hanging by a high court in Port Harcourt for the murder of a commercial driver in 2015, over his refusal to pay him a N100 bribe. Justice Elsie Thompson, while…

Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a Ponzi scheme operator, Umoren Edet, to seven years imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretence and issuance of dud cheques. He was said to…

An explosion has rocked a part of popular Mile 3 Market located along Ikwerre Road in Port Harcourt Area of Rivers State, leaving several people injured. Residents of the area said they heard a loud sound at about 6.20am when traders…

Rivers State Police Command has recovered the lifeless body of a man suspected to have been murdered by unknown persons. The hands and feet of the man identified as Onyeka Onuorah, were bound and the body tied to a mast belonging to…

Controversial broadcaster, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as Daddy Freeze, has been fined N5million by High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for committing adultery with a married woman, Benedicta Elechi, who he claimed to be his…

A driver identified as Tigidam Bright has been arrested for allegedly conniving with two suspected kidnappers to abduct his boss’ wife after he was sacked from his job. Bright was arrested alongside the other suspects named Isaac Michael…

Justice J.K Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft. The judge gave the sentence on Monday after three years of…

A newborn baby wrapped in an Ankara fabric has been found dead inside a church in Obio-Akpor local government area in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. It was gathered that the abandoned baby found on Monday, October 26, inside the…