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By Kelechi Nwaucha With the slogan ‘Keep Girls in School,’ emphasizing the importance of education to the development of the girl-child, non-governmental organization, OLEGH Centre for Community Development, led students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Oromineke, in Rivers State, to mark this year’s International Day of the Girl Child. The theme for this year’s International Day of the Girl Child, which is ‘Girls’ Vision for the Future,’ emphasizes the “urgent need for action and the hopeful aspirations of girls globally amidst various challenges,” according to the United Nations. Speaking in Port Harcourt on October 11, 2024, OLEGH’s Program Officer, Dornwile…

… As Army Arrest 7 Suspects including 2 NSCDC Officers By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Ltd (PINL) has uncovered a logistics company at Eleme, Rivers State, Igor Logistics Services Ltd, allegedly used as camouflage for illegal bunkerers siphoning products from the 28-inch Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) along the Ebubu new road by Eleme, Trailer Park section of the East-West Road. Working in synergy with security agencies, seven persons, including two Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NCDSC) officers deployed to the logistics company and some key staff of the company were arrested and are currently assisting…

By Kola Oredipe There was no contention as to his brilliance on the day. He truly justified his nomination and invitation as Guest Lecturer for the 64th Founder’s Day Lecture of the University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka, Enugu State. Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State delivered about an hour lecture titled, “Rethinking our future: The need for true federalism and economic renaissance”, to the distinguished audience that comprised of Professors, other senior lecturers and students of the great institution. They were left bewildered to the masterfully presented lecture by the guest speaker, Senator Diri. What an incredible performance by a…

The staff of Royal Breed Educational Centre and of Keafchi Ventures (publishers of Port Harcourt Mundial Newspaper) have congratulated Dcns (Dr) Ibietela Madighi on her swearing in as justice of the Rivers State High Court. In a statement signed by Mrs Affiong Chinyere Nwaucha, the two organizations described Justice Madighi as “mentor and mother,” while commending her elevation to the state High Court. They further described her call to serve in the judiciary as “ordained by God and pleasant in the eyes of men.”

Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt  Over 1000 primary school pupils in Rumuolumeni community in Obio-Akpor local government Council and Opobo Town in Opobo/Nkoro LGA of Rivers State have benefited from a Free Educational Rhapsody organized by Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder. The free educational rhapsody was held on Friday, at four different primary schools in the two local government areas where officers and personnel of the NNS Pathfinder distributed thousands of exercise books, text books, novels, mathematical sets, pen, rulers, erasers, and other educational materials as well as footballs to pupils of the schools in the state. Our correspondent reports that…

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The Chief Executive Officer of POOF Foundation, Prince Oghenerukevwe Okifo, has presented educational materials to public primary and secondary schools in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The items presented to the students of the benefitting schools to cushion the burden of education on parents include branded notebooks, biros, pencils and erasers. This was as the foundation also presented solar lights to Ughelli Area Command and Ughelli A division to light the police environment and installed street lights at Low-Cost Estate, Ughelli. The POOF Foundation promised to continue its philanthropic gesture and ensure…

The governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has called on the Ijaw nation and other well meaning Nigerians to unite and re-strategise in the quest for resource control and restructuring of the country. Governor Diri, who was represented by his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the call on Thursday at the 9th memorial anniversary of the first civilian governor of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in Yenagoa. A statement issued by the senior special assistant on Media to the deputy governor, Mr Doubara Atasi, quoted Governor Diri as eulogising Chief Alamieyeseigha as a true nationalist who succeeded in building…

The Presidential Amnesty Programme has clarified that it was not involved in the “dialogue between stakeholders and former agitators of the Niger Delta”, hosted by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement, South-South, Gift Johnbull, in collaboration with a ‘General MightyMan’ in Yenagoa, on Tuesday. PAP made this clarification in a press statement signed by Mr Igoniko Oduma, the Special Assistant on Media to the Administrator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, on Thursday. Oduma said that the explanation became necessary as a result of the “unfortunate linking of the PAP Office with the Yenagoa Dialogue in some quarters, and…

The Akaeze Heritage and Economic Development Forum (AHED) has called on the state government and security agencies to enforce the Supreme Court judgement that ended the age-long land dispute between Umobor in Akaeze and Ogwor in Ishiagu communities all in Ivo Local Government Area, Ebonyi State. President of AHED, a non-political, non-religious and socio-economic group, Mr. Emmanuel Ude, condemned in strong terms the recent attacks on Akaeze indigenes from Umobor by their Ogwor neighbours from Ishiagu over the same land, which case had been rested by the apex court. The Supreme Court sitting in Lagos had on September 27th, 1991,…

By Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt  Rivers State, the Treasure Base of Nigeria, is gearing up to host this year’s edition of the Nigerian Internet Governance Forum, NIGF. The NIGF event with theme: “Responsible Use Of The Internet: A Panacea for Sustainable Socio-economic Development”, is scheduled to take place from October 16 to 17, 2024, at the Rivers State Ministry of Women Affairs Complex, Eastern Bye-Pass, Port Harcourt. The event will welcome representatives of the government at all levels, and gather the internet community, tech experts, advocacy groups and different stakeholders from the public and the private sectors to discuss critical…