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  By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  Commemorating with the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the Search for Common Ground Journalism Forum (SFCGJF), Rivers Chapter carried out a sensitization session to students of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education on Effect of Cultism and Drug Abuse. The event which took place on Thursday, June 26, 2025 at the school premises in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital also included community youths in the area. The sensitization programme is a fall out of the various capacity trainings benefitted by the Common Ground Journalism Forum on the European Union funded Community Centred Approach to Transforming Criminality in the Niger Delta project being implemented by Search For Common Ground (SFCG) in 66 communities, 33 local government areas of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States.  Speaking to Newsmen after the event, Director of the Okechukwu Onuchukwu Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies of Ignatius Ajuru University o...

By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Federal government through the Nigerian Consumers Credit Corporation (CREDICORP) initiative has empowered three thousand seven hundred women with tricycle popular known as Keke across the thirty six States in Nigeria including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This was made known during the presentation ceremony organized by CREDICORP in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital on Wednesday, 25th June, 2025. Speaking to Newsmen at the sideline of the event, the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Consumers Credit Corporation (CREDICORP), Engineer Uzoma Nwagba stated that the aim of the empower 100 women in each State including the FCT with a source of economic support and relevance. Engr. Uzoma Nwagba, CEO, CREDICORP,  Engineer Nwagba while revealing that the initiative also empowers civil servants, low income earnings with various life and economic values stated that the initiative under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu was a laudable one...

  By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  Rivers State Police command is in search of the Principal of Christ Ambassadors Mission International School located at Eagle Island in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State who is at large for burning a fourteen year old girl with hot iron. The story went that residents of Amazing grace junction at Eagle Island, who saw the body of the teenager interrogated how she sustained the burns on her body, to which the teenage girl revealed that her Aunty reported her to the school alleging that she stole 30,000 naira, an allegation the teenage girl denied. The residents sitting  the girl's aunty walking out intercepted and held her to ascertain the truth of the revelation. An eye witness, a human rights Advocate and National Coordinator Centre for Basic Rights Protection And Accountability Campaign, Prince Wiro who rushed to the scene of the incidence after receiving a distress call from one of the residents stated that on getting to the scene,...

  By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Rivers State Police Command has condemned the brutal attack by suspected cultists last night, June 23, 2025, at about 8:00 PM by Armed assailants, led by two men, Umegbewe Kingsley popularly known as Gutam and one Opaka, believed to be leaders of the Iceland cult group,who stormed the OSPAC office beside the Ahoada East Council Secretariat and opened fire on its operatives. During the attack, OSPAC operative Ngozi Ipah was shot, while escaping, the assailants also gunned down a police officer, Corporal Francis Friday, who was on special duty at the Secretariat with the Special Intervention Squad (SIS). In a statement by the Command's Spokesperson SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said a Police patrol team led by the Divisional Police Officer arrived at the scene of the incident, but the attackers had already fled. Both victims were rushed to the Ahoada General Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds but were pronounced dead on arrival. Their bodies have bee...

  By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Chief Security Officer,CSO of Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State,Mr Hector Ekeakita accused by the Police of been mastermind of violent attack on the Sole Administrator of the Council, Mr. Goodluck Iheanacho has denied any involvement. Mr Ekeakita in an audio message containing his response, sent to our correspondent  cleared himself of any culpability in the incident that took place last week Friday, June 20, 2025. The Rivers Police had in a statement on Sunday June 22, by its spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko  fingered Mr. Ekeakita who is also the Chief of Staff of the council of mobilizing thirty hoodlums to attack the LGA Administrator while urging them to report themselves at Rivers Police headquarters, Moscow road, Port Harcourt for questioning. According to Mr. Ekeakita in the audio message, “I did not carry hoodlums to attack Goodluck Iheanacho.What happened is that,it is the Youth of the LGA that came to visi...

 By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Rivers State Police Command has condemned the  heinous attack on the Sole Administrator of Ahoada-East Local Government Area, Mr. Goodluck Iheanachor in his office, at the council Secretariat on Friday June, 2025. A statement by the Command's spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said a group of hoodlums numbering about thirty, led by the Chief Security Officer CSO and the Chief of Staff (COS) to the Sole administrator Mr. Hector Ekakita, stormed the Council Secretariat and attacked him. According to the statement, during the attack, the hoodlums assaulted the Sole Administrator, stole his mobile phones, forced him to sign a letter purporting his resignation, carted away vital document, including official and personal document from his office.  SP Iringe-Koko noted that the Administrator is currently undergoing medical treatment due to the injuries sustained during the violent attack and in a stable condition. The Commissioner of Police...

 By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  Police have arrested a notorious cultist, Lovegod Goodluck popularly known as  K1, a member of the late 2Baba Iceland cult group linked to the murder of late DPO of Ahoada Division,SP Bako Angbashim. According to a statement by the Spokesperson, Rivers State Police command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said  operatives of the command, on May 3, 2025,  stormed the suspect's camp in Ikata Community, Ahoada East Local Government Area and arrested him.  In another operation,on the 13th of  June, a suspect Precious Olumini who had earlier escaped was also arrested. Items recovered from the operations, includes one locally made single-barrel gun, two live cartridges,one  English made pump-action gun and a locally made pistol. SP Iringe-Koko noted that during interrogation, suspects confessed to being members of the dreaded Iceland cult group that has been terrorizing Ahoada-East axis of the State. The police spokesperson added that...

By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected the Federal Government’s request to issue an arrest warrant against the suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, following her failure to appear in court for arraignment in an alleged defamation suit. The presiding judge, Justice Muhammed Umar, delivered the ruling after the federal government’s counsel, Mr. David Kaswe, informed the court that the charge had been served to her lawyer. Justice Umar stated that, as the senator had not previously been served with the charge or a hearing notice, it was inconceivable for her to have appeared in court. The Federal Government’s counsel, however, argued that Akpoti-Uduaghan should have been aware of her arraignment since her legal counsel had been served. The judge, in response, dismissed the argument, stating that serving the charge on her legal counsel was not sufficient to presume the senator’s awareness of the arra...

    By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  Hope Aglow Charity Foundation, led by Dr. Cynthia Amaka Obiorah, an Associate Professor of Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment has urged students of Bingham University Nasarawa State and that of Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic (KENPOLY), Rivers state to adopt the waste-to-wealth initiative. Dr Obiorah who spoke on the theme: “Ending Plastic Pollution” during the commemoration of World Environment Day 2025, held at both institutions on the 5th June 2025 in Bingham  University, Karu and 11th June at Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic,  Bori respectively, urged them to adopt the sustainable environmental practices through the 5 Rs of waste management: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle, while also introducing a new dimension - the 6th R.. "Regenerate wealth" through plastic regeneration. "The waste-to-wealth initiative offers a unique opportunity for students to contribute to environmental sustainability whil...

  By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olugbenga Adepoju has enjoined all Muslims in the State to use this year’s celebration to pray for the peace and progress of the State.   The CP reassured Rivers’ residents of the provision of adequate security and their safety during and beyond the period of the celebration.   He also directed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, and Heads of Tactical Units of the Command to deploy all operational and intelligence assets at their disposal to all 23 Local Government Areas of the state.   Meanwhile, residents of the State were advised to remain supportive, law-abiding, vigilant and report acts of crime and criminality to the nearest Police Station or call the Command's emergency hotlines 08032003514, 07057605209, 07072323049 and 08098880134 for prompt response.  

 By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  A tanker conveying petroleum product has crushed a young man, nicknamed Egwu, a native of Ogoni to death at the mile three axis of Port Harcourt in Rivers State. The tragic incident occurred on Tuesday night, June 3, 2025 An eyewitness who simply gave his name as Baridam told our correspondent that,the driver of the vehicle whose identity is yet to be ascertained ran away the moment he observed the victim who was crossing the road was knocked down. He also disclosed that the Divisional Police Officer,DPO of Nkpolu Police Division immediately mobilized his men to the scene to retrieve the tanker to the station as the mob were about to set the vehicle ablaze. #awajisgeorgenews gathered that the corpse of the victim has been deposited in a mortuary by the Police and the tanker seen in front of the Nkpolu Police Division as of Wednesday morning. When contacted, the Spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command,SP Grace Iringe-Koko Koko said she wil...