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Report compiled by Clem Ofuokwu, Eferegbo Henry and Kofi BartelSome memories evaporate fast. Others stick with victims for a long time. Events that followed the EndSARS protests left behind memories that will be difficult to erase from the minds of many people. From Port Harcourt to Oyibo in Rivers State, dozens of citizens were brazenly arrested on account of allegedly taking part in the crisis that trailed the EndSARS protests.  Sadly, the constant flip flop of the investigating officials meant that these citizens suffered some human rights abuses.Twenty years old Success Odinaka was arrested by the police on the 21st…

By Eferebo HenryCommunity Educators (CEs) on Gender Based Violence (GBV) meeting in  Isiokpo, Rivers East Senatorial District on January 11Community Educators (CEs) on Gender Based Violence (GBV) met at Isiokpo, Rivers East Senatorial District on January 11, 2021 a part of activities to deepen campaign against gender based violence in communities in Rivers State.Mr. Tombari D. Kote, Cengos program officer who facilitated the meeting commended the head of the working team and asked to know if there are challenges encountered by the CEs in the course of carrying out the community sensitization programme. He encouraged them to always report on…

….As CEHRD Unfolds 10 Yr. Economic Empowerment  Plan of 2million Rural Women Civil Society activists have been advised back their demands for action on issues from the legislature  with facts and figures to make it easy to receive needed response.Chairperson, House committee on Women in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Linda Somiari-Stewart gave the advice at a summit on Women Entrepreneur in Rivers State at Adgate Hotel, Port Harcourt, January 1, 2021.Speaking through her legislative aide, Mrs Grace Ajagbo, she pointed out that data and facts place issues squarely before lawmakers, providing for them, avenue for engagement.“There I…

-Iduozee Efe Paul, BeninThe commissioner of Police in Edo State, Philip Ogbadu has disclosed that 54 firearms were stolen from different police formations in the state during the Jailbreak #EndSARS protest.The CP said jailbreaks were recorded in two correctional centers in the state last year and only eight of the firearms have been recovered so far.Commissioner Ogbadu made the disclosure when he met with Governor Godwin Obaseki at the Government House where he pledged to work with the state government to check the high crime rate in the state.“We would do our best to ensure the state is crime-free and…

By Constance MejuAs Shell, Nigeria’s oil giant reels over the knock it received Friday from the Appeal Court in the Hague over unattended massive oil spills in two communities in the Niger Delta, national and international activists and development agencies are hailing the landmark judgment which they say, will change development in the environmental landscape of the Niger Delta.The Appeal Court in the Hague on Friday January 29, made history when it upturned the 2012 ruling of a lower court in the Hague which denied farmers from two oil devastated communities, Oruma in Ogbia,Bayela State and Goi in Ogoni, Rivers…

The clamour for more attention to nature for solution to much of mankind problem continues to grow. November 20, 2020, WOMEN Initiative for Climate Change,  WlCC, organized a Seed Fair, an exhibition of plants/vegetables and seeds indigenous to people in the Niger Delta, used for feeding and tackling health challenges in the communities. Participants were drawn from Akwa Ibom, Bayela,Cross River, and Rivers State. Venue was Aldgate Hotel, Abacha Road, Port Harcourt and about 70 community Women participated in the fair, the first of its kind in the region.Declaring the fair open, Ms Emem Okon, executive director, Women Initiative for…

By Eferebo HenryCommunity Educators (CEs) on Gender Based Violence (GBV) met at Isiokpo, Rivers East Senatorial District on January 11, 2021 a part of activities to deepen campaign against gender based violence in communities in Rivers State.Mr. Tombari D. Kote, Cengos program officer who facilitated the meeting commended the head of the working team and asked to know if there are challenges being encountered by the CEs in the course of carrying out the community sensitization programme. He encouraged them to always report on their sensitization visit to the appropriate platform.The CEs expressed happiness over the visit and assured the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a club Donald Trump was never really interested in joining and certainly not so soon: the cadre of former commanders in chief who revere the presidency enough to put aside often bitter political differences and even join together in common cause.Members of the ex-presidents club pose together for pictures. They smile and pat each other on the back while milling around historic events, or sit somberly side by side at VIP funerals. They take on special projects together. They rarely criticize one another and tend to offer even fewer harsh words about their White House successors.Like…

A 19-year-old Atlanta-area teen was arrested Thursday by Gwinnett County police and has been accused of stealing nearly $1 million from a Kroger grocery store.Police said Tre Brown spent two weeks creating over 40 fake returns to obtain over $980,000 while he was employed at the Steve Reynold Blvd. Kroger between December and January, according to a statement.The returns ranged from $75 to over $87,000 for non-existent items and were placed on several credit cards, detectives said. Corporate employees noticed the transactions and contacted police.Further investigation showed Brown appears to have used the money to buy clothes, guns, shoes and two…

We wish to inform the public that some talc powder and cosmetics on sale IN Nigerian markets contain asbestos. The International Agency for Research on Cancer and the United States Geological Survey at different times held that asbestos are found close to talc deposits underground and sometimes contaminate talc when it is mined. According to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, talc that contains asbestos is classified as “carcinogenic to humans.” WHO said there is no safe level of asbestos.The above information spurred series of serious public pressure for the withdrawal of talc products from the…