The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company says it has commenced mass disconnection of defaulting customers in the four states it operates.
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The arrest was part of the ongoing “Exercise Atilogwu Udo 1’’.
Four senior staff of the National Emergency Management Agency have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen while another was shot on Tuesday evening in River State.
The Peoples Democratic Party agent killed in Abonema area of Rivers State allegedly by men in Nigerian Army uniform has been identified as Thywill Dabotubo.
The new Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Usman Belel, has pledged to adhere to professionalism in discharging his responsibilities.
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has assured flood victims in Bayelsa and Rivers States that the Federal Government is committed to alleviating their pains.
The Nigerian Army is conducting educational and medical outreach programme in host communities where the Exercise Crocodile Smile 2 is going on.
It added: “Their fate is the same with thousands of PDP supporters who were brutalized, arrested, shot at, and even killed by the military and thugs of the All Progressives Congress during the rerun elections on Saturday
Omereji made the statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday after counsel to the panel, Zacchaeus Adangor, announced the failure of persons summoned to testify on the disbursement of N4 billion agricultural loan to appear
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ahmad Muhammad, a DSP, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt that the command was monitoring the re-run election
The PDP made this demand while reacting through a statement signed by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser on Media to the River State Chairman of the party, Bro Felix Obuah, to an allegation by Abe that some officials of the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission were apprehended thumb printing ballot papers in the Khana office of INEC in Khana Local Government Area
She said over the course of Saturday, she, along with the multinational civil society observation team had the opportunity to move across Port Harcourt, the state capital and observe several of the polling units
Obuah said: “Rivers State is a traditional PDP State and even if the elections are conducted a million times, the PDP will win here. Was the APC expecting Rivers people to vote for another Presidential candidate other than President Goodluck Jonathan? That must be a wishful thinking
Tele Ikuru did not come to us as a surprise. Rather than being shocked, we feel relieved that he is no more part of us because Ikuru was a PDP mole in our midst. Unknown to most people, Ikuru initially refused to leave PDP for APC with Governor Rotimi Amaechi in November 2013
The Commanding Officer, Forward Operating Base, Bonny, Captain Daupreye Matthews, told newsmen the vessel and its 11 crew members were arrested off the coast of Bonny Island in Rivers State
Matthews said they were arrested while the ship was on routine patrol of the waterways