Rivers state

Rivers State Government says it has intercepted a truckload of suspected substandard animal hide, popularly called ponmo, in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area of the state, that were imported into the country from Madagascar. The state…

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…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has on Sunday threatened to impose a fresh lockdown in the state in January to prevent a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Wike gave hint of imminent second phase of lockdown amid…

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…

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has urged journalists to hold government officials accountable, rather than give them awards on the basis of “friendship”. Wike made this known on Friday when the national leadership of the…

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…

Rivers State Government has reinforced its ban on the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the state in line with the prescription order by the Federal Government. Governor Nyesom Wike, who stated this in a state…

Police in Rivers State have arrested two pastors for allegedly raping a 27-year old member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC). The corps member is observing her primary assignment at the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the…

Men of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a wanted armed robber and kidnapper popularly known as Bobisky, on Saturday, sparking jubilation from residents of the state. Bobisky, whose real name is Honest Digbara, was arrested…

Police in Rivers State have arrested a man who allegedly defiled his three daughters, aged 9 months, 3 and 5 years old in Elekahia, Port Harcourt. The Chairman of the Civil Rights Council, Rivers State chapter, Prince Wiro, who announced…

A 9-year-old girl has lost her life after her mother applied a pesticide, Sniper, on her hair to kill lice in Rivers state. Dr Gloria Nwosu, a paediatrician at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, disclosed this to newsmen at…