The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Police Command, CP Olugbenga A Adepoju, has visited the scene of a gruesome attack on the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rivers State Cassava Project Limited, Mr. Gibson Reuben, an expatriate from the Netherlands. The incident occurred on Monday, 13th. January, 2025, at about 2030hrs. at Aleto Eleme…
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Olugbenga A. Adepoju, psc, mnips has today the 9th. January, 2025 at the Police Officers’ Mess, Old GRA Port-Harcourt, decorated about One Hundred and Nineteen (119) Senior Police Officers. The officers who were recently promoted comprising Forty Superintendents that were promoted to Chief Superintendents of Police (CSPs), Twenty…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Chijioke Ihunwo, chairman of Obio-Akpor LGA of Rivers state, has appointed 130 special assistants. Ihunwo, who announced the appointments in a post on X on Wednesday, said the new hires “must serve diligently”. Some of the appointees are Helen Nyekwere, Josephine Wogu, Daisy Worgu, Wagwu Hilda, Ogbonna Stella, Goodness Ogbonna,…
Some of the less privileged and needy in Rivers State were yet to exhaust their joyous mood from the cheerful visitation by the Operatives of the C4i Strike Force when the same Unit led by its Commander CSP Julian W. Igbudu in fulfillment of his promise, kicked off the year with a heartwarming and cheerful…
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared that the Governor of Rivers State, Siminialayi Fubara, has the legal standing to transact businesses with the lawmakers that did not vacate their seat in the State House of Assembly. This was as the court on December 20, dismissed the suit seeking to compel…
About 20 persons, including a pregnant woman and four children have been critically injured by a gas explosion that occured in the Orazi axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon close to densely populated area in Orazi called ‘Big Tree’. It was learnt that amany of…
The Rivers State Police Command has a new helmsman, in person of CP Olugbenga Adepoju Adewole, psc,mnips. with unique crime fighting strategies. He is a seasoned Police Officer with exceptional service records and great wealth of experience in modern policing. He assumed office on 24th December, 2024 as the 47th Commissioner of Police, Rivers State…
Gloria George’s world was turned upside down when her 34-year-old son, Horsefall Rowland, failed to return home on the fateful night of September 10, 2024. He had informed his mother at about 3.30 pm that he was going for a meeting at Peter Odili road and Government Reserved Area, GRA in PortHarcourt, Rivers State respectively,…
The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has approved a Christmas bonus of N100,000 for workers, public servants, and pensioners in the state. This approval was announced in a statement issued on Tuesday night by the State Head of Service, George Nweke, and sent to news outlets. Nweke stated that the bonus is intended to help…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, vacated the judgement that barred the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from releasing monthly statutory allocations to Rivers State. A three-member panel of Justices of the appellate court, in a split decision of two-to-one, held that the Federal High Court in Abuja lacked the requisite…