THE NATION RIVERS State has approved a new flyover, measuring 505 metres, at the GRA junction on Port Harcourt/Aba Expressway. Commissioner for Works Austin Ben-Chioma, who spoke in Port Harcourt on Thursday, said the approval was given during the State…
PUNCH NEWS The Rivers State Government has imposed a total lockdown of the Bonny Local Government Area and Onne community in the Eleme LGA with effect from Sunday (today) to check the spread of coronavirus in the state. According to…
THE GUARDIAN The lockdown in Obio-Akpor and Port Harcourt Council Areas of Rivers State took another dimension yesterday, as Governor Nyesom Wike, ordered the demolition hotels in Eleme Council for flouting the state’s directives. The demolished hotels are Prudent Hotel,…
VANGUARD A Niger Delta agitator, Mr. Precious Iyoyo, a.k.a, General Playboy, has urged the Governor of Rivers State to ease the total lockdown imposed in Port Harcourt, noting that the act would lead to an upsurge in criminal activities within…
THE GUARDIAN Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday came down hard on the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations), Adamu Abubakar, accusing him of ‘sabotaging’ the lockdown imposed on Port Harcourt and Obio-Akpor local councils to check the spread of the novel coronavirus…
THE NATION A 24-hour indefinite lockdown has been clamped on Port Harcourt City and Obio-Akpor Local Government Areas by the Rivers State Government. The government also said all helicopter operators, especially Caverton and Bristow, must henceforth submit manifests of all…
THE GUARDIAN Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has faulted the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for building coronavirus laboratories in Lagos, Ogun and Kano states and failing to building one in the oil-rich state. He said the country does…
POLITICS NIGERIA Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned Caverton Helicopters against operating in the state during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that governor Wike had shut down the aircraft office in the state and ordered the…
PUNCH NEWS Rivers State has recorded its first case of coronavirus.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on Wednesday. The NCDC also confirmed that cases of coronavirus in the country have hit 52. The NCDC, on its website,…