Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike says that Nigeria, as a nation, has performed abysmally for 61 years and it’s time to quickly muster measures to rescue it from the wrong direction it is headed. The governor gave the charge at the March Pass and Parade event in commemoration... Read more

The Rivers State Executive Council has  approved a N25billion (Twenty Five Billion Naira) loan from Zenith Bank for the funding of the Oyigbo-Afam Road, Chokocho-Igbodo Road, the tenth flyover in Port Harcourt and other projects. The government said the loan would be repaid within eighteen months from the State Internally... Read more

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) on Wednesday commenced a capacity building workshop on entrepreneurship for primary and secondary school teachers.   Dr Dikko Radda, Director-General of SMEDAN said that the agency was introducing entrepreneurship in primary and secondary schools across Nigeria under the National... Read more

The Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Chiroma, has expressed optimism that the new Port Harcourt campus of the institution will be the best in the country. Chiroma made this known when he  paid a working visit to inspect ongoing civil construction work at the Nabo... Read more

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says it is regrettable that 61 years after independence, Nigeria is still grappling with leadership challenge. He also said that because of such leadership failure, Nigeria now needed God more than ever in it’s history. The Governor made this known at the Interdenominational... Read more

*As Gov Wike restates commitment to partner police in keeping Rivers safe The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated of the Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 6 Barracks of the Nigeria Police at Omagwa Community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers state. At the inauguration, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was... Read more

The Nigeria deep-water arm of global energy giant, Shell, has donated multimillion naira laboratory equipment and software packages to the Offshore Technology Institute of the University of Port Harcourt. According to a statement by the Media Relations Manager, Mr Bamidele Odugbesan the donation was made as part of the... Read more

The Nigeria Customs Service, Area ll Command, Onne Port, has taken delivery of a cargo scanning machine from the Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Col. Hammed Ali (Rtd). The Command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Auwal Mohammed, made this known on Friday in a statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer,... Read more

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says Nigeria must encourage federating States to harness their resources and generate revenues, including Value Added Tax, VAT to advance their development. He has also stressed that it is baffling to note that Rivers State is not included among states to benefit... Read more