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JTF Nabs 14 Tanker Drivers … 50 Tankers Block PH/Aba Expressway, In Protest
Vehicular and human movement within the Oyigbo axis of the Port Harcourt/Aba Expressway was yesterday disrupted following the blockage of the major road by tanker drivers, causing heavy traffic jam and chaos in human activities. When The Tide visited the scene, commuters were spotted trekking long distances to get to their destinations following the incident.…
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RSG Clears N3.5bn Pension Arrears …Targets Malaria Elimination
The Rivers State Government, says it spends an average of N500million monthly as payment for pension emoluments to retired civil servants in the state. The Secretary to the State Government, Mr George Feyii disclosed this while declaring open a 3-day training/ sensitiatisation workshop on Contributory Pension Scheme in public service organised by the state pension…
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Chelsea Chases Victor Moses
European Champions League winner, Chelsea FC of England has targeted Nigerian international, Victor Moses as one of the new players to bolster their squad for next season. Moses, who helped Super Eagles of Nigeria prosecute the recent 2014 World Cup and 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifiers was in impressive form for Wigan Athletic and…
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Bloodbath In Kaduna: 60 Killed, 200 Wounded …Govt Imposes Curfew
Three suicide bomb attacks on churches rocked Kaduna State yesterday, killing at least, 21 people and wounding about 100, officials said. The attacks triggered retaliatory actions by Christian youths who dragged Muslims from their cars and killed them, officials and witnesses said. The reprisal attacks left over 39 dead and more than 105 injured, The…
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World Book Capital: FG Backs PH Bid
The Federal Government, has backed the bid by the Rivers State Government for the designation of Port Harcourt City as the 2014 World Book Capital city of the year by the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital is among eleven other cities across the world bidding to…
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Cacophony As Defence …That Bribe Allegation Against Lawan
From the moment, the Right Honourable Farouk Lawan was named as chairman, Ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives to unearth those behind the rot in the nation’s oil subsidy regime, through the Public Hearing of the assignment, up to the eventual submission of report, Nigerians expected nothing short of total success. And total success,…
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$3m Bribe: Lawan Knows Fate, Today …As Reps Resume Plenary
As the House of Representatives resumes today for a special emergency session to take a decision on the $3 million bribery scandal involving Chairman of the ad hoc committee that investigated the management of the oil subsidy, Hon. Farouk Lawan, The Tide gathered that Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has concluded plans to sack the embattled…
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N2bn Pension Fund: EFCC Tenders Fresh Evidence
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday tendered two sets of documents in the prosecution of Dr. Shaibu Sani Teidi and two others, who are being tried before Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court, Abuja over a N2billion fraud. The two others under prosecution for defrauding the Nigerian Union of Pensioners…
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Kidnapping: Delta Assembly, PSC Disagree On N3.5bn Security Contract
Delta State House of Assembly is currently at war with the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Parry Osayande over what the House described as his alleged role in the release and redeployment back to the State of the indicted head of the Delta Anti-Kidnapping Task Force, CSP Dickson Adeyemi Osamwonyi. Mr. Osamwonyi…
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Fuel Scarcity Hits Rivers …As NUPENG Declares Strike
Residents of Rivers State, last Friday began to experience fuel scarcity with its attendant long queues of vehicles as the Port Harcourt zone of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) embarked on strike. This is coming on the heels of the Ministry of Urban Development’s action to drag eleven tanker drivers…