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•Vow to Engage NWC to Revisit Party Congresses  •Insist Gov Fubara Must Take Leadership Position in Rivers  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) has restated its solid stance in support of Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, on the political crisis in the party in the State. The Governors assured their readiness to engage the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to revisit the congresses with a view to correcting the anomaly, while insisting that Governor Siminalayi Fubara must be allowed to take his rightful leadership position of the party in the State. The PDP Governors said…

By Hamzat Lawal The book, An Imperfect Storm: A pandemic and the coming of age of a Nigerian institution, written by the immediate past Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, with his wife Vivianne Ihekweazu, Managing Director of Nigeria Health Watch, is a memoir written like a fast-paced thriller, which will keep you turning the pages, not just because it captures the tense and trying COVID-19 years, but for its down-to-earth narration – peppered with suspense and revelatory intrigue. It grips you in an exciting ride to that climactic realization that, perhaps, the unseen…

Emma Ovundah  A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an experte order restraining the National Leadership of the All Progressive Congress led by the chairman, Abdullahi Umar-Ganduje, the Secretary, Surajudeen Ajibola-Basiru from going ahead to conduct planned Ward, Local Government and State Congresses scheduled to hold on 11th, 16th and 26th October, 2024. Other defendants in the suits filed by Peter Ohochukwu and Haija Ndidi-Chukwuma for themselves and all elected executive members of APC in the state are All Progressives Congress, Inspector General of Police, Nigeria Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Justice Godwin…

•As Journalists task politicians, stakeholders on development of Emohua LGA Emma Ovundah Former Minority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Prince Azubuike Odum has declared his interest to contest for the Chairmanship position in Emohua local government area in the forthcoming October 5th, 2024 LGA elections in the state. This is just as EMOLGA Journalists Association Worldwide (EJA), umbrella body of all practicing Journalists in Emohua local government area has tasked political leaders, politicians and stakeholders in the area to prioritize the development of the area. Prince Azubuike Odum, a former Caretaker Committee Chairman of Emohua LGA, made…

•Say RSG pays N2bn monthly to clear pension, gratuity backlog Emma Ovundah Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has disclosed that the Rivers State Government is paying N2bn monthly to offset the backlog of pension and gratuity to retired civil servants. Governor Fubara stated this while addressing workers in the state during the 2024 Rivers State Civil Service Week, with theme: ‘Building Resilient Education for Increased Access to inclusive Lifelong Quality and Relevant Learning in the Rivers State Civil Service’, held at the Alfred Diete Spiff Civic Centre, Port Harcourt on Thursday. The Governor, represented by the Secretary to the…

Rivers State Government has signed a Public-Private-Partnership framework agreement for the establishment of a New Port City to be delivered on a 1,000 hectares of land that will serve as nucleus of network of urban centres designed to decongest Port Harcourt and break the one-city jinx of the State. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed at Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday, was between the Rivers State Government, under the supervision of the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority (GPHCDA) and Rainbow Heritage Group (RHG). The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dagogo Israel Iboroma, SAN, and Acting Director General…

… EMR Hails BusinessDay Manager, Chukwu, on Lifetime Award …. Awards Well Deserved, Honour to Chapel ~ Okonkwo Members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State have felicitated with five of their colleagues who received various categories of awards from the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Rivers State Council at the just concluded 2024 Press Week and Awards Night ceremony. The awardees include Elder Ignatius Chukwu, Regional Manager (South South), BusinessDay Newspaper, who bagged a Lifetime Achievement Award; Clarice Azuatalam, of Verbatim Magazine and Ann Godwin, Bureau Chief (South South) of The Guardian Newspaper,…

In continuation of its visits to stakeholders in the sports sector, the leadership of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Bayelsa chapter, on Monday, paid a courtesy visit to the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Esv. Moses Teibowei. Chairman of Bayelsa SWAN, Comrade Mrs Timinepre Ohia, in her remarks, congratulated the Works and Infrastructure commissioner on his reappointment by Governor Douye Diri, as well as commended him for his doggedness in carrying out the visions of the governor through the numerous projects ongoing in the state. She described the Works and Infrastructure commissioner as a round peg in a…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF) is set to hold the 49th Conference and 27th Anniversary of her Missionary Arm, in Bayelsa, with the theme: “More Than Conquerors”, from Wednesday, August 28 to Sunday, September 1, 2024. Barr. Peter Great Temedie, President of the Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF) Bayelsa State chapter, stated this on Wednesday in Yenagoa, the state capital, during a courtesy visit to the Federated Correspondent Chapel of the NUJ. He said that the Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship of Nigeria, is a non-denominational faith-based organisation, established in 1975 by the then City Graduates,…

By William Okeke The world is about family. And families are meant to stand for each other. Protect each other. Make up for each other’s lapses. Yet in another sense. Nothing stops P-Square from branding their talent professionally. If only to stop the distraction we are seeing now So those wives behind the brothers altercation and incitment are demonic and very wicked. I have no doubt they caused the bad blood. Were they married to the family to bring disunity? Why were the boys not wise enough to distance their wives from the group. Someone ought to have seen this…