Rather than abate, the crisis rocking Rivers State is worsening daily as the police yesterday withdrew the security details of the Speaker, Hon. Otelemaba Dan Amachree. This week alone, there were two separate protests by women from the state. While the Tuesday’s demonstration called for the removal of Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, the [...]
There were indications in Abuja on Thursday that security aides attached to the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, may be withdrawn. A highly placed security source, who briefed reporters in Abuja, said there were plans to withdraw the security aides of the governor. The source insisted that the alarm raised by the Speaker [...]
The last-standing vociferous Niger Delta militant, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, recently addressed a press conference. The entire drivel of his speech was saddening on several levels. Dokubo started by describing Fulanis as interlopers “who migrated and invaded our land from Fouta Djallon” and fail to “show respect for the owners of the country.” He added [...]
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Five foreigners kidnapped aboard a German ship off the Niger Delta region coast in Bayelsa have regained their freedom. Some yet to be identified gunmen abducted the five expatriates aboard an oil support vessel along Sagana waterways in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa on April 26 2013. Kidnappings and killings carried out by pirates, [...]
THE controversies surrounding the grounding of a Bombardier jet belonging to the Rivers State government have taken a fresh turn, as sources within the National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) revealed that the embattled governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, would have to pay a total sum of $320,000, about N51.2 million, to the agency for [...]
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State took a fresh dimension on Friday when heavily armed policemen sealed off the secretariat of Obio/Akpor Local Government Council. The policemen, who were led to the secretariat by the Divisional Police Officer, Rumuodomaya Police Station, about 2 pm, had ordered the Caretaker Committee Chairman of [...]
The crisis over an aircraft owned by the Rivers State Government deepened on Thursday, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission commenced a discreet probe to determine Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s link to the alleged inflation of the cost of the plane by $10m. The aircraft has been the subject of a row between the Rivers [...]
FIVE members of the Rivers State House of Assembly believed to be enjoying the backing of Minister of State for Education Nyesom Wike, disappeared from public glare yesterday. The Assemblymen allegedly went underground to perfect their plot to impeach Governor Rotimi Amaechi. They went into hiding a day after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman [...]
THE face-off over the registration or otherwise of a Bombadier aircraft owned by the Rivers State government took a twist on Thursday with the Federal Government threatening to prosecute Rivers for forgery. Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, said in a statement that the clearance documents used by the aircraft had been discovered to be forged, [...]
Despite the amnesty programme that was granted militants in the Niger Delta, which led to the disarmament of many various groups, a regrouping militancy camp located in the creeks of Delta State was, on Tuesday, demolished by the Joint Task Force, under the 19 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Koko, Warri North Local Government. [...]
