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Judiciary
A High Court in Port Harcourt has nullified the arrest warrant issued against Prof. Smith Jaja, Vice Chancellor of PAMO University of Medical Sciences, by the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Speaker Martin Amaehwule, citing a breach of the 1999 Constitution. Presiding over the case on Friday, October 30, 2026, Justice Frank Onyiri ...
Crime
…Uncovers suspected counterfeit alcoholic drinks factory in Aba The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed seized fake and substandard products estimated at N2.6bn in Rivers State, warning that more illicit products will be confiscated and destroyed as part of efforts to rid the country of unsafe products. In the ...
Politics
...Clears Lulu-Briggs, Chinda, Pidomson, 16 others for governorship race The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cleared 19 candidates to contest the 2027 Rivers State governorship election, according to its final list of candidates. This has cleared doubts that some frontline contestants, such as Kingsley Chinda of the APC and Dumo Lulu-Briggs of the NDC, ...
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Politics
In what looks like a twist of event, a political heavyweight in Rivers State, Dr.Sokonte Davies, a governorship a spirant in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who recently resigned from the party has formally returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC), his former Party. Dr. Davies, an ally of former governor of Rivers State and ...
Judiciary
The Rivers State House of Assembly has issued a warrant of arrest for the Vice-Chancellor of PAMO University of Medical Sciences, Professor Smith Jaja, following his failure to appear before its ad-hoc committee investigating the state’s scholarship funds allocated to the institution. The resolution was reached on Friday during the Assembly’s 53rd legislative sitting after ...
Politics
Indications have emerged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State for the 2027 general elections, Hon. Kingsley Chinda, may have failed to comply with key sections of the Electoral Act and run afoul of the Supreme Court's recent judgment on party defections under the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. Lending credence to ...
Health
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed impounded expired drugs worth N59m in Rivers State. The destruction of the drugs, which was carried out at the Igwuruta dumpsite along the Eneka-Igwuruta road, was attended by the NAFDAC Zonal Director, Pharm. Chukwuma Oligbu, along with members of the Nigerian Customs ...
News
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area 2 Command at Onne Port in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, has seized 56 containers laden with prohibited goods. Briefing journalists on Tuesday at the Onne Seaport, the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, stated that the impounded goods have a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of Five Billion, Five Hundred and Thirty Million, Nine Hundred and Eighty ...
