The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, is calling on INEC to conduct the elections in Rivers State, saying that after all that he witnessed on Saturday, there was no election at all in the state. Speaking to Channels Television’s election coverage programme, Nigeria 2015, in the early hours of Sunday, Amaechi alleged that there was […]
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Police Arrest 320 Boko Haram Suspects in Rivers State
There was tension in security circles in Rivers State as the state police command Sunday arrested about 320 persons suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect. THISDAY gathered that the suspects, men and women, were arrested in the early hours in a convoy of 17 buses at the border between Rivers and Imo […]
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I fasted for 10 months to become Governor – Amaechi
RIVERS State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum has attributed the increasing level of insecurity in the Federal Government. He also said God, and not man, installed him as the state governor because he fasted and prayed for 10 months before he became the governor. Amaechi said rather than chase criminals away from […]
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Doctors’ strike: 6 patients die in Port Harcourt
At least six patients have reportedly died at the Rivers State-owned Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMH), Port Harcourt, due to the ongoing nationwide warning strike by medical doctors. Doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) commenced a five-day nationwide warning strike yesterday, over the Federal Government’s failure to address the association’s demands. […]
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Aluu4: Nigerians demand justice
It has been a year and two months since the murder of four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt – Ugonna Ibuzor, Llyod Michael, Tekena Elkanah and Chidiaka Biringa. They were killed in Aluu, Rivers State. They were allegedly beaten to a pulp and then set ablaze by an irate mob over allegations of […]
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Icon And Embodiment Of Lawmaking In Rivers State dies
The lawmaker in the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Degema constituency, Honorable Tonye Harray, died this morning at a foreign hosipital following a brief illness. Hon. Harray was the Speaker of the State Assembly from 2007 to 2011. According to our source, he collapsed at his residence [GRA] last week before he was flown to abroad […]
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March 29, 2015 




