ICYMI: 10 Things that Happened in Rivers State over the Weekend and in the Past Week

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10 Things that Happened over the Weekend and in the Past Week in Rivers State:

1. Protest, as body of missing young woman is found in well in Rumuosi Community

                            Lifeless body of young woman after it was brought out of the well

                                          Compound well in Rumuosi where body was found    
          
2. Police in Rivers State arrest four people for allegedly stealing one-month-old baby

3. Police in Rivers State rearrest owner of real estate company, The Villa

4. Rivers State to start operating Treasury Single Account

5. Rivers State Road Maintenance Agency say rain is the major challenge affecting its operations

6. Alleged Port Harcourt serial killer, Gracious David-West, changes plea from guilty to not guilty

7. Police arraigns new suspect in trial over killing of women in hotels in Rivers State

8. Both suspects standing trial over killing of women in hotels in Rivers State, plead not guilty

9. UPTH, Lulu Briggs Health Centre, Uniport, deny treating students of UDSS in suspected case of food poisoning

10. Rivers State House of Assembly passes State Dehumanizing and Harmful Traditional Practices Prohibition Amendment Bill, 2019

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