Port Harcourt, Nigeria News

BY EMMA AMAIZE & AKPOKONA OMAFUAIRE WARRI - TWO men, sus-pected to be fake pastors, have been arrested by the police in Warri, Delta State over a foiled kidnap attempt on the proprietress of Shammar Children's School, Udu Road, near Sedeco area in Udu, Mrs.

IF the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State continues, the nation will feel its impact starting from Monday, May 27, as the Nigeria Labour Congress and its Trade Union Congress counterpart have announced plans for an industrial action on the said date.

Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, lamented what it described as the unacceptable number of abandoned Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects in the state and urged the Commission to make concerted efforts to complete them.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

CITING the need not to escalate the political crisis in Rivers State, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state have urged Governor Rotimi Amaechi to drop his ambition to be re-elected as chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum .

RIVERS CRISIS:YOUTHS CALLS FOR THE REMOVAL OF GOV AMAECHI As AIG Plan improve Policing Iyalla Adaye, Nigeria A total of over ten thousand youths drawn from various Local Government Areas protested for the removal of Rivers State governor, Rt.

A baby delivery syndicate was recently unearthed by the Police and a key suspect arrested and paraded in Lagos, alongside two other women who were believed to have paid certain sums of money respectively, to be delivered of babies.

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Chief Anthony Anenih's capacity for doing the political impossible is legendary.

FROM being only a thorny political issue, the crisis in Rivers State is moving fast to take a tragic character.

Mantrac Ghana Limited will invest over 20 million dollars into the construction of a new Engine Rebuild Centre near Takoradi to serve the oil and Gas and Mining clients, Mr Emad Adeeb, Managing Director, said on Monday.

SHOCKED at the call for the declaration of a state of emergency in some northern states, the Nigeria Governors' Forum has appealed to the Federal Government to consider those behind the clamour as enemies of the country.

A FEDERAL High Court has ordered the police to end their 10 days barricade of the Obio-Akpor local council secretariat in Rumudomaya, Rivers State.

The Rainbow Book Club in partnership with the British Council Port Harcourt, organised a tribute evening in honour of the late prof.

IT has been one form of alarm or the other raised by either faction in the struggle to take political control of Rivers State.

The Rivers Youth Movement worldwide, has pledged support and loyalty to the Rivers State Governor, and Chairman of Nigeria Governors' Forum, Rt.

I decided to write this piece as a response to the appalling attitude displayed by comedian Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY, and Nollywood actress Chioma Chukwuka, now known as Chioma Akpotha.

HEARING in a suit by the Caretaker Committee of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, before a Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, praying the court to order the Police to vacate Obio/Akpor council secretariat, will continue today.

A NIGERIAN Air Force Parade helicopter crashed on the runway of the Nigerian Air Force Base in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Thursday.

Now in its fifth year, the annual Port Harcourt Carnival, better known as CarniRiv, has evolved from its modest beginnings as an informal regional gathering to become a major festival event - a true carnival in many respects.

DESPITE the directive by the Senate Committee on Marine Transport to the management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to stay action on all staff deployment, retirement and appointment, the agency may have flouted the directive as a new re-deployment exercise has taken place.