Bini riva life festival: The river proves “Water No Get Enemy” as neighbours unite
His Majesty sat in quiet excitement watching the boat races unfold before him. Around him, residents and visitors had gathered not merely to observe a festival, but to step into a way of life rarely glimpsed beyond the creeks and winding waterways of the Niger Delta. It was, in every sense, a homecoming, not of people, but of a people to their own story.
‘We’re building a professional, combat-ready Army’ — COAS
On the sidelines of the 163rd NADCEL 2026 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over the weekend, COAS, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, engaged senior media executives
Mile 2-Apapa highway gridlock: Police, LASTMA, FRSC, others helpless
RESIDENTS, motorists and business owners along the Berger/Kirikiri corridor, yesterday, blamed the worsening traffic congestion on the Mile 2-Apapa expressway on the proliferation of container terminals in the area, saying the facilities have become the major source of the persistent gridlock.
RHETORICS WITHOUT RELIEF: Oghara bleeds as kidnap, killings expose Delta’s security gaps
By Egufe Yafugborhi The red soil of Oghara Kingdom, once celebrated as the welcoming “Gateway to Urhoboland,” is again soaked in blood. On June 25, 2026, a husband and wife were abducted on the Otefe-Ovade Link Road. The husband was executed by his captors; the wife was released only after ransom was paid. For the Oghara […]
18 months after Vanguard’s exposé, court orders cleric to pay N200m, rebuild destroyed shrine
On January 21, 2025, Niger-Delta Voice (NDV), a publication of Vanguard Newspapers, published an exclusive report titled: Tension as Christians, Traditional Groups Lock Horns in Delta.
Abandoned by C’River govt, Ikom lawyers raise N18m to rebuild dilapidated High Court
By Ike Uchechukwu IKOM—For years, the men and women who walked into Cross River State’s courtrooms to seek justice did so under leaking roofs, past cracked walls, and beneath ceilings that had long given up the fight against time and neglect. In Ikom, Central Cross River, justice had a smell of dust and abandonment, and a […]
