A civil rights organisation, Yiaga Africa has added a new twist to last Saturday’s general election, saying that the results from Imo and Rivers States were inconsistent with its projections for the states. The organisation raised the observation in its post-election statement signed by the Chair, Watching The Vote, and Executive Director, Samson Itodo, obtained on Wednesday night and titled, …

Residents in Rivers State woke up on the eve of election day to the news of attacks on residences of two politicians by suspected assailants. The Guardian reports that hoodlums allegedly threw dynamite at the residence of an immediate past Commissioner for Water Resources, Dr Tamunosisi Jaja. The source said that one of the assailants, Destiny Iganibo, who is said …

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in the state on Friday launched into a war of words after the PCC Director-General, Dr Abiye Sekibo said he escaped an attempt on his life by those he described as agents of the state government. Sekibo, a former Minister of Transport, told …

Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Joe Kokar-Waadah has petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC), the ECOWAS Court of Justice and United Nations (UN), and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) Washington, to checkmate perpetrators of political violence in the state as another general elections draw near. Also petitioned by the Canada-based Korka-Waadah are governments of the United States of …

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested six suspected armed robbers and recovered guns and some military uniforms. The six suspects, who were arrested by officers on a stop-and-search operation on the Port Harcourt-Owerri Road, were said to be from Kogi State. In a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, Police Public Relations Officer for the state Police …

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe reportedly escaped assassination on Monday evening. Unknown gunmen were said to have attacked Abe’s campaign train at the Akinima community in the Ahoada-West Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. It was gathered that the SDP governorship candidate and his team had earlier visited …

Suspected political thugs have set fire on the residence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Assembly candidate for Ikwerre-Emuoha federal constituency, Ezemonye Ezekiel-Amadi in Rivers State. It was gathered that the hoodlum invaded the house of the candidate at his Omerelu country home in the Ikwerre local government area of the state at the weekend. It was learnt that …