Browsing: Rivers

The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the All Progressives Congress to abandon the idea of forcefully taking over Rivers State. The conflict between the Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, and his predecessor, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike, began last year when the Assembly, mainly made up of Wike’s supporters, tried to impeach the […]

The Rivers State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zaccaeus Adangor, SAN has rejected his redeployment to the Ministry of Special Duties (Governor’s Office), and consequently resigned from the State Executive Council. Adangor’s resignation came barely 24 hours after the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, redeployed him in a minor cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. Fubara, in […]

FOURTEEN persons were arrested by men of the Nigerian Navy for their alleged involvement in illegal oil bunkering in Elem Krakama community of the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. Also, the Navy uncovered an illegal oil refining site with a capacity to produce over 9.6 million litres per day of Automotive Gas Oil, […]

The Nigerian Air Force personnel involved in Operation Delta Safe destroyed boats filled with stolen crude oil. The military also mentioned that multiple unauthorized oil processing locations at Bille, Dariama, Elem Bekinkiri, Temakiri, Opumakiri, and Degema in Rivers State were demolished during missions carried out from March 25 to 26. The military, in […]