May 20, 2023. Azonuchechi Chukwu. Unknown Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have killed an e-hailing driver identified as Raphael Toby in Rumuibiakani, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victim’s younger brother, Donald Toby, confirmed the incident in a Facebook post on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Donald said his brother was shot dead |
17-year-old Ike and his elder brother of 24 years old in September 2022 visited their family farmland in Oduoha Nvakohia in Rivers State to harvest cassava, only to dig out crude oil in the course of uprooting their farm produce. All their cassava has been killed by the TotalEnergies EP oil spill. The boys now see the oil spill on their farmland as an avenue to scoop and bale out the crude oil with a steel bucket, basin, and cellophane nylon bags to pack it to their dumpsite. An event the reporters witnessed.
A coalition of civil society groups, Rivers State Civil Society Organisations, has pleaded with Governor Nyesom Wike to pay seven years arrears of teachers of staff schools of state-owned tertiary institutions. An open letter signed by the chairman of the group, Mr Enefaa Georgewill, said many of the teachers have died awaiting the payment of the arrears. He added that their defendants have dropped out of school while some are very ill with no proper medication.
Civil society organisations in Rivers State have given Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL and security agencies a 14-day ultimatum to find a lasting solution to fuel scarcity and reduce its pump price in the state or face full-blown mass action. This was stated by the Chairman of the CSOs, Comrade Enefaa Georgewill, who explained that their initial planned mass action was changed to a warning protest due to the intervention of security agencies, particularly the Department of State Services, which pleaded for two weeks to resolve the crisis.
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