Topic: Port Harcourt
P/Harcourt - The leadership of Ogoni community in Akpor Kingdom, (OCAP) have called on the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People MOSOP to fight...
WITH all economic parameters indicating a slowdown and large preponderance of government's recurrent expenditure, construction costs will go up and...
A University don, Professor Femi Shaka, has accused the Federal and State Governments of deceiving the youths of the country with promises of...
Nigeria's army arrested a man on Friday after he sought to drive into a barracks in the country's main oil region with what an official described as potentially harmful materials.The arrest came amid fears of fresh attacks by Islamist ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Five militants escaped from a prison in Nigeria's main oil-hub Port Harcourt on Sunday by using their metal beds as ladders to climb over the walls, a spokesman for the prison said.Militants, who say they are ...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday shot dead a former militant leader and his driver on the outskirts of Yenagoa, capital of Nigeria's oil-rich Bayelsa State, the state police boss said."I can confirm that Ebi Albert and his driver were shot dead ...
Heavy police shooting and destruction of property by political rivals marked a local government poll Saturday in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, police and residents said.The shooting took place in densely populated central Rumuomasi district of the city as ...
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian election officials raced to get aborted polls back on track on Sunday after the absence of voter materials in large parts of Africa's most populous nation forced parliamentary elections to be delayed.The postponement by 48 hours of ...
A stampede at a campaign rally for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the oil-producing Niger Delta region killed at least 11 people and injured 29 others, police said.The incident occurred in the oil city of Port Harcourt after Jonathan addressed the ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Several people were feared to have been killed on Saturday in a stampede at an election campaign rally for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the oil city of Port Harcourt, witnesses said.Thousands of ruling party supporters crowded ...