Some commercial drivers operating along the Elekahia-Choba route of the East-Road axis of Obio/Akpo Local Government Area of Rivers State have accused the police of illegally blocking the road and extorting them. The drivers said they face harassment from the policemen daily. The drivers, in separate interviews with our correspondent, appealed to the state CommissionerContinue reading “Commercial drivers accuse Rivers police of illegal road blocks, extortion”
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Suspected homosexual remanded for molesting four Rivers teenagers
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded a 22-year-old man, Joshua Efe, at the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre for sexually assaulting four boys in the state capital. The boys are aged nine, 11, 12 and 16 respectively. Efe, who lives on Ekwulobia Street, Mile 2, Diobu in Port Harcourt, wasContinue reading “Suspected homosexual remanded for molesting four Rivers teenagers”
Rivers community women protest farm destruction, rape by herdsmen
Hundreds of women from five communities in the Ogba-Egbema-Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State on Wednesday protested against what they termed the repeated invasion and destruction of their farmlands by herdsmen. The women, who blocked the council entrance, demanded that the herdsmen vacate their farmlands, even as they called for the intervention of theContinue reading “Rivers community women protest farm destruction, rape by herdsmen”
Man’s headless body uncovered in Rivers truck
The headless body of a man found around the Interwoba canal by Cherubim Road, in the Mile Three area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has left many residents in shock. A witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent that the body, which was dumped in a truck, was discovered on Wednesday. “ThisContinue reading “Man’s headless body uncovered in Rivers truck”
Mourners returning from burial feared killed as Rivers jetty collapses
Many persons are missing after a jetty collapsed in Isaka community in the Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State on Saturday. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Saturday evening while sympathisers who attended a burial in the neighbourhood were trying to board a boat back to Port Harcourt, the state capital. TheContinue reading “Mourners returning from burial feared killed as Rivers jetty collapses”
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