LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has suspended 12 local government chairmen for their alleged refusal to attend official state functions. A statement signed by the governor’s Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, indicated that the suspension took immediate effect. Those affected are chairmen of Okrika, Emohua, Abua/Odual, Degema, Khana, Gokana, Ahoada…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Gov. Nyesom Wike, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Candidate in the March 9 Governorship election in Rivers, has been declared winner of the March 9th governorship election polling a total of 886,264 votes to defeat the closest rival AAC which polled 173,859 votes. The victory has sparked jubilation in the state especially…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Thursday removed Dumo Lulu-Briggs as the governorship candidate of Accord in Rivers State. Justice E. A. Obile held that there was no record indicating that the plaintiff, Precious Baridon, relinquished his (Baridon) position as the authentic governorship candidate to Lulu-Briggs. The court also…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An agent of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has been shot dead. The agent was shot dead as the Presidential and National Assembly elections got underway on Saturday. The major opposition party in the state, All Progressives Congress, is not on the ballot for the National Assembly elections as it…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers State have recovered 31 Electronic Card Readers (ECRs) believed to have been stolen from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The SRCs were recovered in a bush on Rumuji-Emohua axis of the East-West Road in the Southsouth state. They were allegedly thrown into…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police, on Thursday morning, barricaded the entrance to the Rivers State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Port Harcourt following a protest by some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state who threatened that there would be no election unless INEC allows the party to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court has finally shattered the ambition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to present candidates for the forthcoming elections in Rivers State. The Apex Court on Tuesday struck out an appeal filed by the party challenging the judgment of a High Court in Rivers State which barred it from conducting…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of the Nigerian Army participating in Exercise Python Dance III have killed a suspected kidnapper and rescued four civilians in Ukpelede community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. Our correspondent learnt that the troops, attached to 29 Battalion and 6 Division Area on Thursday, encountered a gang…