Rivers State

October 04, (THEWILL) – Ahead of Saturday’s local government elections in Rivers State, youths, on Friday, took over the office of the State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to protect the facility from further incursion by operatives of the Nigeria...

October 03, (THEWILL) – The Rivers State House of Assembly led by Victor Oko-Jumbo has declared that the State local government elections scheduled for Saturday, October 5, must be conducted in adherence to the rule of law and...

October 03, (THEWILL) – Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has declared Thursday, October 3 and Friday, October 4, 2024, as public holidays. The Governor, in a state-wide broadcast to the people of Rivers on Wednesday, said the...

September 30, (THEWILL) – The Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from releasing the 2023 voters’ register to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to conduct the October 5, 2024, local...

September 30, (THEWILL) – A Rivers State High Court has ordered security agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), to provide adequate security and ensure the maintenance of peace, law and order during and after the October 5...

September 18, (THEWILL) – Operatives of the Rivers Police Command have rescued a teenager who was kidnapped in Enugu and transported to Port Harcourt, in a ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag. The outgoing Rivers Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, who confirmed the incident...

September 17, (THEWILL) – Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has suspended Barrister Otonye Briggs as Chairman of the Akuku-Toru Local Government Caretaker Committee (CTC), effective immediately. The Governor, in a statement signed on Tuesday, by his chief press secretary,...

September 09, (THEWILL) – There is no end in sight to the rivalry between Governor Siminaliayi Fubara of Rivers State and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. On a yet to be given date...

August 22, (THEWILL) – A Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, has restrained the All Progressives Congress (APC), from proceeding with its planned Ward, Local Government and State Congresses scheduled for October in the State. Ruling on an...

August 20, (THEWILL) – Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has said contrary to propaganda orchestrated in the media over the uncertainty of his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he and his teeming supporters remain the genuine...