PRESS BRIEFING BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE RIVERS STATE POLICE COMMAND ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 PRESS RELEASE: DADDY CHUKWU’S SYNDICATE NEUTRALISED Recall the assassination of the then Community Development Council (CDC) Chairman of Mgbuoshimini, Chief Ndidi Livingstone on 13th January 2024 in front of his church, the Peculiar Faith Ministries, Rumueme. In that operation, four…
The operatives of Nigeria Police Force, Rivers State command has arrested notorious cultists and suspected armed robber terrorizing the state. In a press briefing on Thursday, the command said its men also recovered firearms from the suspect who has been impersonating Nigeria police officer The press release reads: ARREST OF NOTORIOUS CULTIST, SUSPECTED ARMED ROBBERS,…
Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says he will not again support Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers. Wike spoke on Friday during an interview on Channels Television. “I will never support Fubara again in my political life. I won’t do that. Everyone knows me,” he said. Wike said he laboured and sacrificed…
In a decisive move that fortifies his position within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has secured a significant victory in the ongoing party leadership crisis. The PDP National Working Committee (NWC) has officially endorsed the Rivers State congresses, a key decision amidst the party’s internal strife. This…
Governors elected on the platform of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have drawn a battle line with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike, over the crisis in the Rivers State chapter of the party. The governors, Saturday Vanguard gathered may also move against the National Chairman, Amb. Umar…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Edwin Clark, leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), says Kayode Egbetokun, inspector-general of police (IGP), should arrest Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), over a comment credited to him. While speaking at a congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state in August, Wike…
Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has warned PDP governors supporting Governor Siminalayi Fubara that he will “put fire in their states”. He said, “Not while we live will anybody take the PDP structure from us. I hear that some governors claim they will take the structure and give it to somebody. I pity those…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that gunmen have abducted a director of the Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue Service, identified as Aribibia Fubara. Fubara was said to have been abducted by the gunmen who reportedly came through the Okirika Waterfront in a speedboat to the Marine Base axis of Port Harcourt, the state capital. The armen…
Controversies are trailing death of 23-year-old man, Asher Christopher, inside a Nigeria National Petroleum Company(NNPC) office building located at Moscow road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. However, members of family the deceased said to be from Akwa Ibom state have called for thorough investigation into circumstance surrounding his death on Tuesday, 20th August, 2024. Father of…
A State High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has barred the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from conducting ward and local government congresses. Ruling on a motion ex parte brought before him, presiding Judge, Justice Godwin Ollor, restrained the defendants, APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje; Secretary, Surajudeen Ajibola-Basiru, and the…