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The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated a multi-million naira laboratory in Port Harcourt to detect and analyse samples of oil spillage in the country. The Minister of State for Environment, Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, disclosed this while also inaugurating the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) office building in Port Harcourt. The News Agency
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By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced a former Branch Manager of the defunct Cooperative Development Bank, Aba, Abia State, Adekunle Oyeobu, to two and half years in prison for granting unauthorised loans to three different customers. The ruling was contained in a matter
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*Pleads court for forgiveness *Accuses police of withholding his money, pieces of jewellery *State takes over prosecution By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt The suspected serial killer arrested by operatives of Rivers State Police Command in the state, Gracious David West, has pleaded for forgiveness from the State High Court handling his matter. This is
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A 28-year-old man, Mr. Osaja George was murdered by unknown gunmen in one Saheed Ogunlesi’s apartment at 26 Okusu Street, Diobu Mile 1, Porthacourt, Rivers State, on the 26th of September, 2019. Vanguard gathered that the late Mr. Osaja George was a close friend who lived with Mr. Saheed Ogunlesi. Investigations revealed that Mr. Saheed
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By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Police in Rivers State have confirmed the death of a yet-to-be-identified Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG) pastor who was stabbed during a vigil at one of the church’s parishes in Port Harcourt. Vanguard learned that the Redeem Parish on Danjuma Street, Off Odili Road in the Rivers State
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By Dirisu Yakubu, PortHarcourt The last is yet to be heard of the unrest trailing the new appointments into the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as two opposing groups staged protests in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital recently. The groups carrying placards with varying inscriptions led and by Johnson Amachree, Amadi
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By Gabriel Enogholase – Benin An attempt by some drug dealers to smuggle to PortHarcourt, the Rivers State capital of 238 kilograms of cannabis was foiled as officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Edo State Command who intercepted a vehicle conveying the substance at Abudu along the Benin – Asaba highway. Edo
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By Egufe Yafugborhi EVEN with police arrest of Gracious David West, the prime suspect of serial killing of women in Rivers State, stakeholders have prescribed necessary precautions to guard women against possible further attacks. Stakeholders in their cautions yesterday charged young women who have been most vulnerable to the killings to ensure, at all times,
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Akpabio in Port Harcourt, dishes orders to NDDC management Says N1.9Billion for executed water hyacinth jobs be paid from Monday NDDC headquarters must move into permanent office 2020 Commission must bring in international external auditors Says I will shield commission from NASS harassment By Egufe Yafugborhi, Port Harcourt Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill
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CIG Motors Co. Limited, authorized distributors and marketers of GAC range of automobiles, last week, inaugurated the Port-Harcourt showroom in realization of the company’s cardinal objective of intensifying the brand and getting its services closer to its growing customers across the country’s six geo-political zones.
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