[responsivevoice] The Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Police Brutality on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Oyigbo Indigenous Lawyers Association (OILA) seeking to ban activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Oyigbo Local Government Area. In dismissing the petition, Chairman of the Panel, Hon. Justice Chukwunenye Uriri (Rtd), said the…
Wike’s First Flyover Bridge Fails Traffic Test?
[responsivevoice] Motorists and other road users have started complaining about the heavy traffic around the Garrison Junction flyover in Port Harcourt recently inaugurated by the Rivers State Government, fearing that the multibillion naira bridge constructed by Julius Berger might not have resolved the problematic traffic it was meant to resolve. The flyover was opened for…
Protests as Police Kill Tricycle Operator in Port Harcourt
[responsivevoice] Rioters have taken over the streets in parts of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in Port Harcourt after a policeman shot dead a tricycle operator at Rukpokwu on Thursday morning. The rioters have totally shut down economic and social activities along Owerri Road leading up to Rumuokoro Junction by the East-West road as they protested…
Rivers SARS Panel: Man, 89 Wants Police to Produce Son, Dead or Alive
[responsivevoice] An 89-year-old man, Alabina Romeo, from Abonnema in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, has asked the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Police Brutality order the Nigeria Police to release his son, Silas Romeo, to him dead or alive. Romeo’s demand came as Ipalibo Manuel, a retired civil servant, narrated how…
Bayelsa Boat Mishap: Police yet to Inform Families of Deceased Officers
[responsivevoice] Bayelsa State Police Command is yet to inform families of the six police officers that died in last Friday’s by-election eve boat mishap off Oporoma in Southern Ijaw local Government Area. The Bayelsa State Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat, told the magazine that the command was wrapping up investigations into the incident and…
Police say Wike’s Father’s Church was Bombed by IPOB Members
[responsivevoice] The police in Rivers State have said that those who detonated a dynamite in Christian Universal Church in Port Harcourt, a church owned by the father of Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike were members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, who paraded three men suspected…
Shell Loses Bid to Stop N17bn Compensation to Ejamah Community
…The Oil Giant may Pay More. [responsivevoice] Indigenes of Ejamah community in Eleme Local Government Area took to the streets to celebrate the decision of the Supreme Court to dismiss the request by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria to vacate the N17b judgment against the company for an oil spill in the community almost…
South-South Leaders Place 7-Point Demand Before Buhari
Governors, traditional rulers and other organised leaders of the six South-South states on Tuesday listed a seven-point demand the people of the region want President Muhammadu Buhari to address immediately. The demand was made to the Presidential delegation sent by the President to meet with leaders of the South South region in Port Harcourt. The…
Gunmen Kill Police Inspector at Seriake Dickson’s Country Home
Some yet unknown gunmen who made an unsuccessful raid on the country home of Seriake Dickson, a former Bayelsa State Governor in Toru-Orua, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Wednesday night ended up killing a police inspector who kept guard at the place. In a statement by the Bayelsa State Police Public Relations…
Niger Delta Varsity Owes N1bn, as ASUU Threatens Strike
The Niger Delta University, NDU, owned by the Bayelsa State Government is indebted to financial institutions to the tune of N1 billion, being loans it took to augment subventions given it by Bayelsa State Government to pay salaries. The branch Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, NDU, Dr. Tonbara Kingdom disclosed this on…
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