POLICE have beefed up security around government facilities and some major gateways into Port Harcourt. This may be to fortify the capital city of oil-rich Rivers State against any attack by insurgents.

It was a moment forfrank talk in Rivers State when youths gathered under the aegis of Integrated Youths Economic Empowerment Programme, IYEEP, to discuss the challenges of unemployment, cultism and other related vices facing youths in the country. They also condemned the killing of youths, women and children by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in some states in the North.

STAKEHOLDERS in the hospitality industry particularly hotel proprietors, are kicking against government’s move to ban the possession or consumption of alcoholic liquors, beer or wine around public swimming pools in the state. Also to be prohibited is igniting open flames.

It has been over three years of unending frustration for motorists and commuters at the Mile 2 axis of the ever-busy Oshodi-Apapa expressway, since the road failed.

The mystery behind the cure of a cocoa/palm kernel merchant, Alhaji Andrew Audu, of decades of stroke paralysis is still amazing to his neighbours.