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  Unknown gunmen in the early hours of today attacked military troops in Rivers State killing one  soldier  and two others injured . The incident  happened  at the boundary bridge between   Kalabari region and Emohua Local Government Area of the state. Meanwhile, the Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations Officer Six Division, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ekeocha was yet to react on the incident as of the time of filing this report.

  Three Teenagers ages 17,19 and 20 were caught in Oke-Aregb  Abeokuta Ogun State burning fresh female human head in a local pot for ritual purposes. The victim  Rofiat, a girlfriend to one of the perpetrators was said to be lured  into their house, where her neck was broken and head cut off with a machete . While the victim's lifeless blood was left in their room they proceeded to an uncompleted building to burn the head. A local Vigilante who perceived the smell coming from the uncompleted building, said when he got to where the smell was coming from, he saw that they were roasting a human head. Report says the fourth teenager who  allegedly is the boyfriend of the victim is on the run.

   Rivers State Police Command says it's attention has been drawn to a viral video of an illegal mortuary where kidnappers deposit  the bodies of kidnapped victims who died in their custody. A statement by the acting Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Grace Iringe-Koko,  a Preliminary investigation revealed that the mortuary actually exists in the premises of the General Hospital Elele Alimini, owned by the State Government, which  had been abandoned for over ten years and staff laid off. In the statement, Mrs Iringe-Koko explained that some mortuary attendants however decided to stay back to attend to the corpses that were in the morgue to avoid an outbreak of disease.. The statement further noted that one Mr. Okachi Wali met at the premises was a casual staff of the mortuary who is still rendering his services. According to the statement, the morgue is not being run by kidnappers as portrayed. The Command enjoined residents of the state to go about their law...

    The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Dr.  Ipalibo  Banigo says investing in  adolescent girls remains an utmost priority to her.   Dr. Banigo made this assertion during a Three-Day Peer Education Training on Sexual Violence Concerns organized, by  Protect The Girl Child Initiative at the Office of the Deputy Governor  in Port Harcourt.   She said the Peer Education Training, and the setting up of  Protect the Girl Child initiative Clubs in Secondary Schools was necessitated by the fact that issues of sexual violence had become a real hot topic not only in Nigeria, but everywhere, stressing that people that are most hit are adolescent girls.   “We felt there was a need for us to do a structured programme, where we can actually mentor them and create awareness, where they can talk about it amongst themselves, and the best way to do it is to set up Peer Clubs at the Secondary School level. We need to train educators who will now jo...

 As part of his Inspection Tour to Divisions under his Command,the Area Commander Oyigbo Area Command, ACP Abdulkarim Nuhu paid a visit to Elimgbu Divisional Police Headquarters where he lecture the Officers and Men of the Division, as well interact with Traditional Rulers and Stakeholders drawn from the Division.  In his welcome speech the Divisional Police Officer, SP Nnamdi Omoni thanked the Area Commander and his Team for the Tour and consequently pledged the unalloyed commitment of the Officers and Men of the Division to uphold the tenets of democratic policing in line with the IGP's Mission and Vision of the Force, while promising to involve all stakeholders in the fight against crime and criminality in the Division.   On his part, the Area Commander ACP Nuhu thanked the Traditional Rulers and other distinguished leaders of opinion for finding time to attend the Event and assured them that the Command under the watch of the Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka ...

  Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Eboka Friday has Decorated three newly Promoted Officers of the state Command.   The Officers, Usman Ocheneka Yakubu,  Zakari Shuaibu and Amanyi Christopher were promoted from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police to Assistant Commissioner of Police while four other Officers were promoted from the rank of Superintendent of Police to the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police.   The Commissioner while decorating the officers at the Police Officers' Mess on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, called on the officers to justify their elevations by rededicating themselves to greater service.    Mr. Friday stated that it is gladdening to see those who he has been working with, get elevated in their chosen career.   The Commissioner thanked the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission for finding the officers worthy of promotion.   The o...

  A three hundred level student of Rivers State University, faculty of Social Sciences, Eke Nwachukwu has alleged he was brutalized and fifty thousand naira extorted from him by some personnel of the Anti-cultism unit. Mr Nwachukwu who narrated his ordeal to Journalists said on his way home last week Thursday, some persons on Wine coloured Sienna vehicle on black clothes intercepted the car that took him on a 'drop' at Rumuola and asked him to come down from the vehicle, which he did. He said after the persons who turned out to be officials of Police Anti-Cultism unit searched him,they did not find anything incriminating ordered him to enter their vehicle. "At that point, I insisted on knowing what my offence was and one of the officers gave me a slap while others started hitting him with some objects and later tied my hands and threw me into their vehicle as I continued to scream which attracted large number of  persons to the scene.'' Mr Nwachukwu further explain...

  Detectives from State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department ,SCIID; Port Harcourt has visited the woman whom a Police Officer, Eze Agbelu allegedly attacked with a burning stove last week which caused  severe burn on her body. The woman, Miss Jane Amos who alleged that she had earlier turned down love advances of the Police officer before the incident,told our correspondent that the detectives who came on investigation took her statement at the hospital where she still receiving medical attention . Meanwhile the Police officer Eze Agbelu had been transferred from Kala Police Division to SCIID,where he is being detained for further investigation.  The Acting Spokesperson of Rivers State Police command, Grace Iringe- Koko had confirmed the arrest of the Police officer to Journalists last week adding that investigation is ongoing.

    The Police has arrested a man  identified as Kelechi who fled days before  neighbours in the compound at Woke street off Cherubim road, Mile  3 Diobu, Port Harcourt discovered the decomposing  body of his female lover, Ifeoma UzoIgwe popularly called Oyibo in his room on 2nd week of December, 2021.   The caretaker of the compound, Chinonye Anurum in an interview with our correspondent said he was called by Nkpolu Police Division, Mile 3 Diobu last week and was taken to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, where he wrote another statement after  the first statement in December.   Mr Anurum explained that the suspect was arrested by the Police with the help of the suspect's immediate family who trailed him to his hideout almost one month after the incident.    Meanwhile, Centre For Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign has commended the role played by members of the immediate family of the suspec...

  Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo  Banigo has expressed satisfaction with the quality and scope of the ongoing construction of Community Secondary School Obuama, in Degema Local Government Area of the State.   Dr. Banigo stated this during an unscheduled spot-check at the facility  at Obuama.   The Deputy Governor who described the Project as massive said, “The community is extremely happy about this project and they have asked me to really express their gratitude to His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, our Governor for undertaking this massive project in Obuama”.   “It is a land mark project, very gigantic with so many staff quarters; in fact this is the flat for the Principal. I was just admiring the marble pavements, it is awesome and so many other buildings are going on in the junior secondary and the senior secondary, the pavements of the internal roads, everything is going on very busy. I was even admiring the fence. I hardly see such solid f...

  Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of a private school, Noble Kids Academy, in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state, where abductors of a pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, were said to have killed and buried her remains.  Hanifa Abubakar  Five-year-old was abducted  last year December by her school teacher Abdulmalik Mohammed Tanko and others. The abductors demanded  six million naira but went ahead to kill her after receiving part of the payment. The suspect Abdulmalik Tanko confessed that the victim, Hanifa was his student at a private school in Kwanar Dakata, Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano State.   Public Relations Officer of the Kano Police Command, Haruna Kiyawa, said the suspect kidnapped the little girl took her to his house where he contacted her relatives and demanded a ransom of six million naira. “According to the PPRO the suspect on the eighteen of December last year having realised that the victim recognize...

    Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo Banigo says the Sub National Ease of Doing Business Baseline Survey indicates that Rivers State is doing great in the Ease of Doing Business in the Country.   Dr. Banigo stated this at the Port Harcourt International Airport Omagwa, shortly after her arrival from Abuja, where she represented the State Governor , Nyesom  Wike at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the National Economic Council Meeting.   She said the factors which determines this survey, includes infrastructure, security and health security.   “With the ten flyovers the Governor is constructing in Rivers State and of course with all the other infrastructures in Health, in Education and the monumental improvement in security, as well as the clearing of the hideouts of criminals, obviously gave us a head way in doing very well in this baseline survey”. The Deputy Governor further stressed.    According to the Public Health Physician, the res...

  The Rivers State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalist NUJ, has elected a new 7 man State executives led by Mr Job Stanley-Job to pilot affairs of the Union for the next three years. Mr Stanley-Job defeated his closest opponent Mr. Paul Bazia by one hundred and fifty votes to one hundred and forty. Radio Nigeria's Esther Obialor was also elected as the Assistant Secretary of the State council, after defeating her opponent Mr Lilly Box by one hundred and ninety one votes to ninety four. Declaring the results at the end of the exercise,, the NUJ National Vice President in charge of South South zone Mr Opaka Dokubo described the exercise as a keenly contested one. Mr Dokubo while urging the new executives to be magnanimous in victory, called for a more united and strong NUJ in the State. In his acceptance speech, the new chairman Mr  Stanley-Job said the successful conduct of the election has brought to an end the initial crisis that rocked the council. He pledged to run an op...

  Rivers State Police Command has debunked the news making rounds that the Police prevented the Executive Chairman of Obio Akpor Local Government Area, Mr. George Ariolu from destroying an illegal refinery used by oil thieves.   The Acting Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Grace Iringe-Koko in a statement indicates that the Chairman went to petroleum depot at Ogbogoro  with a detachment of police men led by Acp Akika Solomon on Saturday last week where they met about twenty armed  personnel of  Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps who violently opposed the inspection of the depot.   It alleged that two of the NSCDC officials corked their rifles against the police but were eventually disarmed and arrested before the chairman gained access into the premises.   The commissioner of Police, Rivers state command, Mr. Eboka Friday, while  calling on the public to disregard the report, urged media practitioners to verify their facts before pu...

 Dead bird suspected to have been used for fetish purpose was seen at the Rivers State Judiciary Complex. The situation which caused panic among Workers and litigants distorted activities at the area as those who came early to the complex were seen in cluster discussing the incident. Speaking to Newsmen,Acting Chief Registrar Rivers State High Court Mr.David  Ihua-Maduenyi said it is the second time such substance had been dropped in the premises.  He assured litigants and workers that the judiciary will beef up security in and around the premises. While urging staff not to panic ,the Acting Chief Registrar advised them to always give prompt information on any happenings around the court complex.

  In a bid to reach out to the needy in the society, the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ;Rivers State chapter,  paid a charitable visit to the Port Harcourt Children Home, at  Borokiri in PortHarcourt.  The visit which was led by the chairperson of the Association, Susan Serekara-Nwikhana was part of the action plans for the year, 2022.   The women branch of the Nigeria Union of Journalists expressed concern towards the children, even as they appealed to the government, corporate organisations, religious bodies and well meaning Nigerians to support the Children in every possible way.  NAWOJ while presenting gift items to the officials of the Children's home also commended them for their effort in feeding and taking care of the children.  Speaking with Newsmen shortly after the presentation, the NAWOJ chairperson Mrs Serekara-Nwikhana stressed that the essence of the visit was to show love, kindness and encouragement to the children...

  The  Rivers State Police  Command has set up panel to investigate Rumuji Divisional Police Officer, DPO;  who was allegedly accused of  involvement in illegal bunkering activities.  Acting Police Public Relations Officer Mrs.Grace  Iringe-Koko in a statement said the accused officer has been redeployed and a panel headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, inaugurated to investigate the matter. Mrs.Iringe-Koko stated that the outcome of the investigation will be made public and the officer punished appropriately if found wanton . According to the statement,the Commissioner of Police Mr.Eboka Friday  reiterated the command's commitment to support the state Government in its war against illegal oil bunkering and assured the public that  no one found guilty will be spare no matter how highly placed .  The command appealed to any one with useful information on where the illegal oil refineries are situated not to hesitate in informing t...

 Reports say two persons a father and his son were found dead in a septic tank at Rumuekini Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State. We gathered that the father and his son  were working at a site in the area when the unfortunate incident happened. According to the source, the father was the first to go into the tank to work but did not make it out at the time he was expected to come out  . The son out of curiosity of what might have befallen his father decided to go into the tank and met his own death. Source also revealed that they choked to death due to the kerosine  poured into the septic tank. We also gathered that other workers alarmed by their disappearance, checked in the tank and brought out their corpses.

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has directed Chairmen of the Twenty-Three Local Government Areas to identify all illegal oil refineries in their domain and those engaging in the illicit business within Forty-Eight hours.  Governor Wike gave the directives at a meeting with Heads of Security Agencies and Local Government Chairmen in the state, announcing a reward of two million naira for any identified spot of the illegal oil refinery.  The Governor who noted the seriousness the state government attaches on the fight against illegal oil bunkering which he observed is bigger than the war against Boko Haram, accused the Council Chairmen of being part of the business, warning them to be battle ready with the state government, failure to comply with the directive.  Reminding the Council Chairmen that leadership comes with challenges and the need for them to be ready to take responsibilities that comes with their position, the Governor however commended the Chair...

 The rescheduled 7th Triennial Conference of the Nigeria Union of Journalists ,NUJ; Rivers State Council, holds tomorrow, Thursday, January 13, 2022. The Conference is expected to elect officers to pilot the affairs of the council for the next three years. A statement jointly signed by the chairman of the credentials committee, Victor Tew and secretary, Comrade Ogboka  Umeda said the conference will hold at the Ernest Ikoli Press Centre, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt at 9am prompt. The statement advised delegates  to arrive the venue of the conference promptly for accreditation. The statement further advised delegates to conduct themselves orderly as all the necessary mechinaries have been put in place to ensure a free, fair, credible and orderly poll.  The Credentials Committee warns that it will not condone any disorderly behaviour from any quarters. It advised all those who have no business with the conference to steer clear of the venue to avoid unpleasant consequen...

 The Rivers State Police Command has arrested and paraded eighteen suspected oil bunkerers who specialize in illegal refining of crude oil products. The State Commissioner of Police Mr.Eboka Friday while briefing journalists at the police headquarters in PortHarcourt said the suspects were arrested at different locations in the state. Mr. Friday stated that following the marching order given by the governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike, the command swung into action and set up a taskforce committee to fish out suspected oil bunkerers. The Police Boss said  the health implications caused by the effect of soot was enormous . CP Eboka said officers of the command also impounded two tankers and two large trucks used for illegal storage and transportation of crude oil. He explained that a special case worth of note was the arrest of five suspects from one particular family in Mgbu-Atafa village of Emohua Local Government Area . The commissioner revealed that the suspects will be cha...

 Rivers State Government says it would continue to remember the Sacrifices made by the Country’s Armed Forces.   Governor Nyesom Wike stated this during the Thanksgiving Mass/InterDenominational Church Service in Commemoration of the year, 2022 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration, at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Chaplaincy, Catholic Institute of West Africa(CIWA) Rumuibekwe, Port Harcourt .   The Governor who was represented by the Deputy, of the state  said the State Government had always vigorously supported the security agencies in pursuant of their duties, for the security and peace of the State. He stated that last week the sum of thirty million naira was released to the families of three Police men who lost their lives while carrying out their duties.   “We cannot forget the sacrifices made by our men and women and so we will continue to support our veterans and the families of those who fought for the survival, unity and freedom of this nation. We wil...

   Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications Mr. Paulinus Nsirim has commended journalists in the state for the support accorded him to succeed as the information and Communications commissioner.  Mr. Nsirim made this commendation during  a media parley at the Ernest Ikoli Press Center in PortHarcourt  He Pointed out that God has given the media assignment as professionals to build society where everyone will be happy.  According to the commissioner as journalists they are to set agenda in the development of Rivers State pointing out that in setting that agenda there are rules that must be put in place .  The Rivers information boss urged journalists to hold politicians accountable and protect t the integrity of the profession.   On his part, Caretaker Committee chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists Rivers State Council Mr. Amaechi Okonkwo reassured that the state council election will hold on the 13th of January as agre...

 Rivers State Government has charged the Nigerian Police to end illegal bunkering and artisanal refining in the State . Governor Nyesom Wike gave this charge at a dinner organized by the Rivers State Police Command to mark the end of 2021 . The Governor, who was represented by the Chief of staff Government House Mr.Emeka Woke said there is need for the police to look into the new dynamics of challenges in the areas of environmental degradation in the State and work to promote government policies to end the challenges of soot. He also reiterated government's commitment to continue with the support of security agencies in the state for effective policing of the environment. Earlier,  Commissioner of Police in Rivers State Mr. Eboka Friday who appreciated the governor for always supporting the police with logistics to carry out their function, explained that they will continue to put in their best to protect lives and property of all residents. Mr. Friday also appreciate the Insp...

  It was a moment of joy and celebration for the people of Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State who gathered in their numbers to celebrate the return of peace to the area. The people who dressed in their royal cultural attires also danced to the various music tunes  that filled the atmosphere at the Andoni carnival held in Ngo headquarters of the local Government. Chairman Andoni Local Government Area Mr. Erastus Awortu described the event as a dream come true considering the years the people were deprived of gathering together as a result of insecurity. Mr. Awortu who could not hide his joy lauded efforts of everyone including the traditional rulers who contributed to the peace initiative. He also solicited for the support of well meaning Nigerians in developing the area. Earlier, Federal Law Maker representing Andoni Opobo Nkoro Federal Constituency Mr. Awaji-Inombek Abiante said over the years the people had been denied development which as a law maker he desires. M...

 PortHarcourt Polytechnic Rumuola has suspended a lecturer Mr. Zoe Solomon for three months. Registrar of the institution Mr.Chris Nwoke in a statement said the school management has set up investigative panel to investigate the alleged sexual harassment of a female student miss Blessing Audu whom the lecturer arrested on allegation of diversion of  two hundred and fifty thousand naira. Miss Audu had denied diverting money belonging to the lecturer while insisting that she was arrested because she rejected his love advances and Marriage proposal. The statement also said the committee is to submit it's report in one Month time. Earlier the student was detained by the police for two days but was released on intervention of the commissioner of police Mr. Eboka Friday .

 Chairman of Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State Mr. Erastus Awortu has reiterated his commitment to continually showcase the rich culture of the people.  Mr. Awortu made this known at the Andoni beach festival in Ikuru town as part of activities to mark the festive season. The Council Chairman explained that the essence of the event was to bring the people of the area together irrespective of party affiliation. He also stated that the program would help to bring about a friendly atmosphere after years of unrest as a result of cult related activities. The council boss urged the youths to embrace peace for rapid development in the area. On his part, the traditional ruler of Ikuru town, king Aaron Ikuru who expressed hope that the peace enjoyed by the people of Andoni will last long noted the need for the economy of  Ikuru town to be revitalized. Similarly, youths of Andoni have been enjoined to maintain peace in the area to attract development . The chairman of Op...