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Juju priests and other traditionalists have expressed their displeasure over the decision of the Eze Ekpeye-Logbo, Dr. Felix Otuwarikpo—who is also the Eze Igbu Upkata, to ban all forms of juju practices in Ekpeye land, Ahoada-East Local Government Area.



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Some residents in the Ogale and Aleto axis of Eleme Local Government Area have raised an alarm over increasing incidents of transformer theft in the communities.

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A Magistrate Court sitting at Choba has ordered that one Nicholas Okey be remanded at the Degema Correctional Centre for allegedly wearing military camouflage to steal a motorcycle at Alakaiah Community.

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About eight members of the Rivers State Task Force on Illegal Motor Parks and Street Trading are now receiving treatment at an undisclosed medical facility after they clashed with some hoodlums on Thursday morning around Slaughter Junction at Oginigba, Trans-Amadi in Port Harcourt.

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Ahead of its Saturday’s Governorship election, the Rivers State Police Command says it has deployed over one thousand five hundred police officers to Anambra state.

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The authority of Port Harcourt City Local Government Council says it has discovered an illegal vehicles dump at Community Secondary School, Nkpolu-Oroworoko operated by an unlawful task force.

The Chief Security Officer of the LGA has been directed to return the over 100 vehicles illegally impounded in the school to their rightful owners.

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Two police officers were, on Tuesday night, repeatedly shot dead by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers during a stop-and-search operation at Okija Bridge junction in Diobu, Port Harcourt.

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will have to wait till Friday, October 29, 2021 to know whether it will proceed with it’s National Convention slated for Saturday, October 30 and Sunday, October 31.

This is as the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt today reserved ruling to noon on Friday, October 29 in the suit instituted by the embattled National Chairman of the challenging the legality of the National Convention.

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Traders, travellers and shoppers who operate or were around the popular Tribel Global Motors at Eligbolo community along East-West Road are now thanking their lucky stars as no casualty or injury was recorded after a truck conveying plastic waste lost control and ran into a bar beside the transport company early this morning.

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The Paramount Ruler of Ovelle Nvakaohia community and Chairman of Nvakaohia Council of Chiefs, Eze Onyeaghala Okwudu, has accused international oil companies (IOCs) for the rise in oil bunkering activities, otherwise called "kpo-fire", amongst youths of the area which led to the mass death which recently occurred at Rumuekpe community in Emouha Local Government Area.

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A 51-year-old woman identified as Mrs Gladys Napoleon who is a native of Chokocho in Etche Local Government Area in Rivers State has narrated to the police and newsmen how she mistakenly killed her husband, Mr Napoleon Amadi, with a machete after they had an argument.

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The arraignment of Ekpeye, a suspected homosexual who, last weekend, was allegedly caught while sexually harassing three male minors at his neighborhood in Diobu, was today, stalled as the Magistrate Court did not sit due to the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association currently holding in the city.

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The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, will on Thursday, October 28, hear arguments on the application by the former National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, seeking to stop the party from conducting a special National Convention on Saturday and Saturday, October 30 and 31, respectively.

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Residents of Sanitary Lane in Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, have apprehended a 27-year-old man reportedly harrassing three male minors in the neighbourhood.


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With support from the Coalition of Rivers Civil Society Organization, teachers of the demonstration primary and secondary schools in Rivers State have on Monday staged a protest at the venue of the Nigeria Bar Association conference at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt.

The teachers, demanding payment of their five years salaries, have in the last six months protested at least three times in front of the Rivers State Government House.


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It was an outburst of emotions, earlier today, as the seeming decomposing remains of Chief Robert Looloo, paramount ruler of Luuwa Community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State who was kidnapped sometime in 2019 was exhumed from a grave where he was buried by his abductors.


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Mercy Blankson, widow of the late Joe Blankson, who drowned in July 2018 after saving 13 passengers in a boat mishap along the Abonnema-Bakana waterway in Rivers State has lamented that the Rivers State Government is yet to fulfill its promise of N50 million endowment fund for his kids, and a job for her about three years after the incident.

Mrs Blankson also revealed, in an interview with The Punch, that the Federal Government merely presented a plaque to her in memory of her late husband and attached nothing to help with the well-being of the family he left behind.

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Goods worth Millions of Naira, were this morning, lost as fire razed some shops located around Chinda Bus stop in Mile 4 area of Diobu Port Harcourt.

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Scores of students of Government Secondary School, Mbiama in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State have staged a protest over the collapse of infrastructure in the school, lack of chairs and sufficient teachers to handle their subjects.

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Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere of Omega Power Ministries, OPM has announced the return of the church's flagship programme, "Dr. Jesus Night with Coconut".

The announcement is coming about a week after another popular clergy had warned his members to be weary of Christain leaders who demand for coconuts, candles, water, incense and other mediums before they can receive divine solutions to their problems.

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HRH. Suanu Baridam, one of the traditional rulers who was in the delegation as Ogoni leaders visited President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock, on Friday, has told newsmen how Buhari turned on Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio after he discovered he had misled him to believe the East West Road was 90% complete.

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The Management of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE) located in Rivers State has suspended three Postgraduate Students from studies for allegedly engaging in various examination misconducts.

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