The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company says it has completed repairs of faulty Elelenwo transmission station that led to outages in several parts of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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Some stakeholders in the agricultural sector in Bayelsa and Rivers States say there are no silos in both states, while others in the South South region decry that the lack of power is rendering those in their states inoperative.
The Police in Rivers say they have secured the unconditional release of four abducted staffers of the National Emergency Management Agency.
The Rivers State Government on Wednesday announced the lifting of the ban on promotions of workers in the state civil service.
The executive members and members of the Social Democratic Party in Rivers have resolved to work with Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration, to foster enduring peace and development in the state.
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, have ended their feud.
The Nigerian Navy on Sunday said it discovered a metal Barge MV JOSH 1 and a wooden boat drifting along Bolo Creek in Rivers State and recovered them on January 29.
The kidnappers of the four staff of the National Emergency Management Agency who were abducted on Tuesday in Rivers State have demanded a ransom of N40 million.
The Nigerian Communications Commission says that it will henceforth prosecute those involved in fraudulent registration of SIM card.
The Department of Petroleum Resources says it has sanctioned 10 filling stations caught dispensing fuel above N145 per litre government approved price in Rivers.
The Federal Government has called on the people of Ogoniland to remain peaceful and avoid taking actions capable of delaying the clean-up in oil impacted communities in the area.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday announced the suspension of 12 Local Government Chairmen in the state.
No fewer than 12 young entrepreneurs from host communities to the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal in Rivers State have benefitted from a N150 million capacity development and empowerment programme by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited.
The Rivers Police Command says there is calm in the four Local Government Areas of the state where Independent National Electoral Commission is conducting the State Constituency Assembly supplementary election.
Rivers Police Command has deployed over 3,066 personnel to strategic areas for supplementary election in some parts of the state on Saturday.
The police command in Rivera says it has intensified security and restricted movement in four local government areas of the state where supplementary election will hold on Saturday.
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, commenced investigations into the killings of Dr Ferry Gberegbe, a Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Lecturer, and others during the 2019 General Elections in Rivers.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it was 80 per cent ready to conduct supplementary election in four State Assembly Constituencies in Rivers on Saturday.
The All Progressives Congress and its factional governorship candidate in Rivers, Tonye Cole on Thursday, lost their appeals at the Supreme Court, seeking to enable them participate in the 2019 general elections.
The police in Rivers on Tuesday said that cultists and thugs that had lost patronage from politicians were behind the upsurge in killings in the state.