The Victor Oko-Jumbo-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly, on Tuesday screened and confirmed eight nominees for possible appointment as commissioners in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the screening took place at the […]

A Rivers High Court sitting in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice D.G.Kio has nullified the recent extension of tenure of Local Government Chairpersons by the state House of Assembly. The Judge nullified the extension while ruling in the case […]

The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared the six-month tenure elongation of the state’s local government executive chairmen by the Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly as null and void, unconstitutional and of no effect. The court further declared […]

Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has led other monarchs on behalf of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria to pay a condolence visit to the family of Oba Aderemi Adedapo. Oba Adedapo, the Alayemore of […]

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that any Nigerian court trying him is committing terrorism citing the country’s constitution and international laws. Kanu addressed journalists at the court premises following the ruling from a Federal […]

Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 29 and 49 suspected internet fraudsters in Enugu and Imo States respectively. The suspects were arrested between Wednesday 15 May and Friday, 17 May, […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the Rivers state governor, Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, to stop the escalation of political tension in Rivers. Jonathan, who spoke while kicking off the construction […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) faces a dilemma: to continue the increase in benchmark interest rate or to hold on and continue to monitor the economic responses to its policy initiatives. The choice to hold interest rate unchanged or further increase […]

Nine suspected oil thieves have been arrested by operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at a huge illegal refinery in discovered in a forest at the boundary between Rivers and Abia State. The nine suspects were apprehended […]