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At a meeting of the university staff with their unions they decided to resume work on Monday based on the request made by the Rivers State Governor who has assured that never again will such a thing happen. He has also beefed up security in and around the university community. For now everywhere is still looking like a ghost town except the commercial campus across the east west road which was spared. It is hoped that there will not be a repeat performance of what happened on that eventful Monday.

You people are just running mouth here.

One death has been confirmed; a girl selling recharge card by the emmatex restaurant who struggled with the militants. They stabbed her with a broken bottle on that Monday; she finally gave up the ghost today. It appears some politicians are trying to hush everything by choosing words but the staff unions are adamant. The motor park was full today with many students trying to get out of this ugly situation; the university is largely deserted as many people are moving out before the deadline expires 12 midnight today. I hope they have paid the militants all outstanding allowances. The state government has suggested that all militants be rehabilitated in their home states but the federal government appears to be undecided.

@Damola; nice one

This has not been a very encouraging stock investment year.

AMODU should be left alone

How many times will this woman die? Abeg make we hear word.

all this 419 people sef

it is just another way to steal money via inflated contracts.

This is what happens in Nigeria; even inside church choir selection, nma madu dey inside.

ICPC should be scrapped not merged with EFCC. More than 50% of the corruption in Nigeria is perpetuated by politicians in power plus their immediate relatives.

This particular militant rehab camp is operated by the FG. Rivers state and specifically AMAECHI had advised against it but some accused him of having ulterior motives. The situation at the university is very tense right now as the militants ultimatum ends midnight on Thursday night. The JTF personnel here together with the mobile police are not up to 100. The university secondary school shut down yesterday and asked everyone to go home including those who are boarding. The primary and nursery school, infact all primary, secondary and nursery schools whether private or public situated in the hot zone have declared Friday a holiday. The banks - UBA, First Bank, First Inland and Intercontinental have also declared Friday a work free day.

More revelations are still coming out of the attack of the militants, one important fact is that hoodlums also took advantage of the situation to wreck havoc in the surrounding villages. One guy narrated how militants came to his shop and took all his money, they came with a Ghana must go bag containing boutique clothes and shoes but abandoned it there. After they left, other hoodlums came which sat down and drank his 4 crates of beer. The composition of this hoodlums include local no good youths of the villages who refuse to work plus some non academic students. As usual the police have been making indiscriminate arrests of innocent people labeling them militants. One of them spent 3 days at SARS Borikiri before being identified and bailed out. The guy gave God praise as he saw more innocent people there. One of the boys he saw there came from Onitsha to PH a year 9 months ago and arriving PH at about 11pm, he was arrested and accused and left there by the police. He gave the guy a phone number of his relations to call and inform them so that they can come get him out. Others still he met there were arrested by the police that the bus in which they were traveling was a stolen bus so all of them passengers and driver have been in that holding facility. This country is as Wole Soyinka said moving on the fast lane to anarchy.

All the staff of UNIPORT have proceeded on indefinite strike until the ex militants rehabilitation camp is relocated from the present site. There is no need going to work only to be molested by some foreign elements. The students meanwhile embarked on a demonstration and marched down to the rivers state government house protesting the disruption of academic exercises by the rampaging ex militants. The entire campus and all the surrounding areas have been militarized. The ex militants tried to leave their camp today again but were prevented by men of the Joint Task Force. The soldiers were on constant alert patrolling the areas. The university students in their bid to reach government house seized all commercial vehicles in sight causing a stampede and when they later came back it was another commotion. More stories are emerging of the girls who were raped, most of my estate girls have been tying wrapper in contrast to their bum shorts of before. I met a guy whose shop was raided; it was a pitiful experience. All his satellite decoders were stolen, more than 10 of them. I heard of a university staff who works as a cleaner; this man who is an indigene sold his ancestral lands and used the money to buy an infinity jeep. His jeep was smashed with the back windscreen totally destroyed and the front one cracked. Later i saw him drive past my off campus residence; the car was still like that and he did not seem to mind.

Yeah, thank God they were not homosexuals or oldosexuals.

The FG better pay them their allowances before friday and thereafter relocate them to another place.

What kind of misleading caption is this?

Oshiomole too has not done anything.

Please Amaechi has not done anything to be considered a progressive. There is no road in Port Harcourt, all the contracts he awarded for road construction in Port Harcourt, can't think of any he has completed. He has created hold up everywhere starting from UPTH junction up to Rumuosi down to obiri ikwerre junction. From obi wali road into pyschatric road. If you want to give award to states with road under water please come to greater port harcourt. We have roads plus deep gullies under water in many areas.

It was very traumatic in the words of one female university staff who lost her bag to hoodlums while going home from work in the university secondary school road. The death of the chief security officer about 4 weeks ago in mysterious circumstances made co-ordination of external security operatives to be very slow thus giving the militants a field day. The level of loss by business people is very distressing. Even one woman that fries yam and plantain for sale at olive estate junction was not spared as the little money she had was taken from her. A certain guy who was returning home on bike and saw the militants behind him on foot warned the hausa men who ran a canteen at the same olive estate junction. Immediately he spoke hausa to them they closed shop and fled for their dear lives; same with one of the girls making phone calls. The other girls thought it was child's play and hung around but lost her bag containing money and recharge cards to the marauding band. Some estates who got the alert locked their gates preventing the militants from coming in. We all had to trek to our various destinations after the mayhem it was then i noticed severe destruction at pritaso junction, the barbers shop, soonas restaurant where bottles were freely broken. Infact the road there was littered with broken bottles, the nearby boutique and recharge card shop was looted with the burglary proof uprooted from its foundations. The mobile police that normally are attached to the pritaso estate simply vaporized.

i have a similar thread running in politics section; you might wish to see it.

Silverbird TV just carried it in their late night edition news but can't you guys understand that a nairalander is on ground giving you information.

At lease he admitted that money changed hands; this country is slowly moving to a failed state.

It will be carried by the news in 2 days time; am on ground and reporting to you what i witnessed 1st hand.

At about 4pm today, militants undergoing rehabilitation at the nearby citizenship & leadership training center in ALUU invaded the University of Port Harcourt campuses protesting their non payment of salaries. They destroyed some staff cars parked in their houses, chased and raped some female students. They looted all the boutiques, restaurants and shops from pritaso junction, all the way down to UDSS and down to the crown hotel. They robbed some bike men and seized their bikes. They attacked staff who were caught up in hold up on their way back from offices and collected all their valuables. Armed with machetes that they robbed from a shop along the UDSS road they molested all and sundry for about 2 hours they held the environment captive. The entire area was like a real live movie with cars turning and people running for their dear lives. The security men on duty at the administrative campus were able to lock their gate against the marauding mob who then unleashed havoc on the permanent site campus aka abuja campus. They returned to their camp with their loot promising to return on friday if their salaries are not paid. 5 vans of the JTF arrived after the mayhem to do only God knows what. At about the time of this post i passed 4 vans of mobile police patrolling the UDSS road from pritaso junction. Situating a militant rehabilitation camp so close to a university is a good recipe for havoc but our leaders don't seem to care. We have been getting unconfirmed reports of militants misbehavior in the past but today was the height of it.

AMODU should be left alone to finish what he has started

Congratulations NIGERIA

It is getting interesting

We are going to score a very untidy goal