Browsing: Port Harcourt

Momodu stated this during the discussion segment of the ongoing 13th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference and Extraordinary Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Coach Edwin Okon and his crew were somewhat stunned not to secure a win over the visitors, but will also plan for an away win when both teams take to the pitch of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium as the 2017 AITEO Cup competition hits the home run.

“I do not see any division between online news, newspapers and television because there is a convergence in the media industry.

Wike said assessing the government’s performance in the past two years would provide it necessary information for more efficient performance.

The newly-inducted Editors spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria at the venue of the ongoing All Nigeria Editors Conference holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Egbemode made the assertion when Editors in the country, under the umbrella of the NGE, paid a courtesy visit to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt.

Okoh made this known on Wednesday in his opening address at the 12th General Synod of the Church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which is ongoing.

He said: “The state government will not tolerate any attack on other Nigerians living in the state by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra or any other group.’’

Col. Aminu Iliyasu, Spokesman of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on Thursday.

The presiding Chief Magistrate, Andrew Amadi-Nna, directed that the case file to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecution for advice and adjourned the matter indefinitely.

At the sixth preliminary contest in the junior category last weekend, Braide and Ezekiel Ekanem of Advanced Breed Group of Schools, Sagamu, Ogun State, moved into the semi-final stage after surviving stiff competition from Omamode Sohwo of Graceville High School, Asaba, Delta State and Kolawole Bankole of Greater TomorrowInternational College, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Iliyasu said that the injured soldiers were among the troops from the 29 Battalion, who acting on intelligence conducted a routine-check on some communities in the state.

Uchendu said this at a forum organised by the Inter-Ethnic Network for Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on Thursday in Port Harcourt to celebrate his victory at election tribunal.

Coach Edwin Okon of Rivers Angels told the News Agency of Nigeria after the game at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt that he was excited to win an amateur side.

Wike made the call in Port Harcourt on Wednesday when officials of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, paid him a courtesy visit.

National unity: Media practitioners want penalty against perpetrators of hate speech
Some media practitioners in Port Harcourt, Rivers State have advocated for penalty against citizens who propagate speeches that threaten Nigeria’s unity.
Reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast on Monday, the newsmen told the News Agency of Nigeria that hate speeches must be halted now to ensure unity in the country.
The President had in the broadcast expressed worry that some citizens used the social media to disseminate information that questioned Nigeria’s collective existence.
He said those in such habit had crossed the national red lines by daring to question Nigeria’s collective existence as a nation.
Dr. Ibituru Pepple, the Director, International Institute of Journalism, Port Harcourt Centre, described anti-unity comments on the social media as “unpatriotic and un-Nigerian”.
Pepple added: “The social media have become places where anybody can post any rubbish; the government needs to ensure that people who use it to unnecessarily question national unity are punished.
“On the social media, ethics of journalism and communication are not observed in most cases, so, what else do we expect?”
The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Rivers State chapter, Omoni Ayo-Tamuno, called for measures to ensure that “online rascality” was punishable by law.
Ayo-Tamuno said: “As it is, we cannot determine when a comment on the social media has crossed the red line; a framework has to be put in place to streamline all these.”
In his view, James Awaji stated that the attacks on national unity would continue unless people were made to show responsibility while making online comments.
Awaji said: “The way it is today, people hide under pseudonyms to make wicked and unpatriotic statements against the nation; something has to be done to ensure responsibility.”

Suing the Federal Government for gross neglect, violation of his fundamental human rights and for being responsible for the attendant carnage on the road is the immediate past President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Ledum Mitee.

Puyate told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on Friday that the committee comprised representatives of all the departments in the university.

Captain Victor Choji, the Executive Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, said this during the destruction of one of the illegal refineries on Thursday.

Weli made the claim in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on the sideline of an SPDC sponsored two-day meeting with stakeholders in Abia and Rivers States.