Rivers, Nigeria News

BY EMMA AMAIZE & AKPOKONA OMAFUAIRE WARRI - TWO men, sus-pected to be fake pastors, have been arrested by the police in Warri, Delta State over a foiled kidnap attempt on the proprietress of Shammar Children's School, Udu Road, near Sedeco area in Udu, Mrs.

IF the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State continues, the nation will feel its impact starting from Monday, May 27, as the Nigeria Labour Congress and its Trade Union Congress counterpart have announced plans for an industrial action on the said date.

Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, lamented what it described as the unacceptable number of abandoned Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects in the state and urged the Commission to make concerted efforts to complete them.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

CITING the need not to escalate the political crisis in Rivers State, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state have urged Governor Rotimi Amaechi to drop his ambition to be re-elected as chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum .

RIVERS CRISIS:YOUTHS CALLS FOR THE REMOVAL OF GOV AMAECHI As AIG Plan improve Policing Iyalla Adaye, Nigeria A total of over ten thousand youths drawn from various Local Government Areas protested for the removal of Rivers State governor, Rt.

Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants to kidnappers and assassins in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were Tuesday arrested and paraded in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, by men of the Nigeria Army, Koko ... (more)

By Emma Amaize WARRI- FORMER national chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HRM Charles Ayemi-Botu, has said declaration of state of emergency by President Goodluck Jonathan in only three Northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa was not enough.

A baby delivery syndicate was recently unearthed by the Police and a key suspect arrested and paraded in Lagos, alongside two other women who were believed to have paid certain sums of money respectively, to be delivered of babies.

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Chief Anthony Anenih's capacity for doing the political impossible is legendary.

FROM being only a thorny political issue, the crisis in Rivers State is moving fast to take a tragic character.

Mantrac Ghana Limited will invest over 20 million dollars into the construction of a new Engine Rebuild Centre near Takoradi to serve the oil and Gas and Mining clients, Mr Emad Adeeb, Managing Director, said on Monday.

SHOCKED at the call for the declaration of a state of emergency in some northern states, the Nigeria Governors' Forum has appealed to the Federal Government to consider those behind the clamour as enemies of the country.

A FEDERAL High Court has ordered the police to end their 10 days barricade of the Obio-Akpor local council secretariat in Rumudomaya, Rivers State.

SINCE Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, gave Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr.

The Rainbow Book Club in partnership with the British Council Port Harcourt, organised a tribute evening in honour of the late prof.

IT has been one form of alarm or the other raised by either faction in the struggle to take political control of Rivers State.

The Rivers Youth Movement worldwide, has pledged support and loyalty to the Rivers State Governor, and Chairman of Nigeria Governors' Forum, Rt.

I decided to write this piece as a response to the appalling attitude displayed by comedian Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY, and Nollywood actress Chioma Chukwuka, now known as Chioma Akpotha.

THE Commander, Nigeria Navy Service, NNS Delta, Warri Naval Base, Commodore Mohammed Garba was bubbly, last weekend, as he verbalised on the several battles between his men and oil thieves in Delta State in the last few months.