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By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Chief Executive Officer CEO Housing and Construction Mayor Limited, My-ACE China, has identified education and psychological development as the two most effective ways of the giving charity to the needy. He made the observation at his honorary award and eventual induction into the Rotary Club family recently in Port Harcourt. The real estate success strategist also known as Mayor of Housing harped on the two strategies as the most impactful forms of donations. He told newsmen that strategic donating is what will help people out of poverty, stressing that ineffective philanthropy would rather create…

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria) has installed a 90.12kwh solar-powered electricity in Umuolu community in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State. The recent commissioning of the facility, our correspondent gathered, marks a significant milestone in the fight against energy poverty and environmental degradation in the Niger Delta as the community is enjoying public power supply for the first time in its 700 years of existence. The Umuolu community, which was previously plagued by darkness and total reliance on generators for power supply is now basking in the glow of clean and…

•Commits Vocational, Technical Training Bill 2024 To Ad-Hoc Committee The Rivers State House of Assembly has confirmed Ahoada West-born Hon Samuel Eyiba and four other commissioner-nominees who appeared before it for screening. The four others are: Ilamu Arugu (Abua/Odual); Dr Roland Obed-Whyte (Degema); Hon Samuel Anya (Abia State); and Sir Austin Emeka Nnadozie (Etche). Their confirmation was sequel to the letter sent by the State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, to the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo, to determine their suitability as members of the State Executive Council. The Speaker read the letter of the Governor during plenary held at the…

The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-Nigeria), has commissioned a 90.12kwh capacity solar mini-grid electricity facility in Umuolu community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State. The mini-grid project, made possible through the collaborative efforts of YEAC-Nigeria, YEAC Community Energy and Development, YEAC-UK, and NXT Grid Nigeria contracting with support from partners, funders, donors, and supporters, would provide reliable and affordable electricity to Umuolu community, power homes, businesses, schools, healthcare facilities, etc. The facility, designed to support the government’s efforts to mitigate pipeline vandalism, crude oil theft, artisanal refineries, and environmental pollution through the provision of alternative livelihood opportunities…

•Urges Nigerians to be patient with the president Emma Ovundah In what could be described as a demonstration against the 10 days nationwide hunger protest tagged; #EndBadGovernace, by some aggrieved Nigerians, thousands of youths, men and women in Rivers State, under the auspices of the Renewed Hope Family, on Tuesday staged a mega road walk, to show solidarity for President Bola Bola Tinubu and Federal Government of Nigeria and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. The Tinubu supporters, led by the Rivers State Representative on the 7th Board of the NDDC, and a leader of the APC in Rivers State, Chief…

… Commends AFAN for Promoting Atmosfair’s Clean Cookstoves in Bayelsa Chairman of Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Samuel Numenengi has called on government and public spirited individuals in the state to empower rural households with energy-efficient cookstoves, noting that energy-efficient cookstoves were crucial to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 7) – Affordable and Clean Energy. Comrade Numenengi made the appeal after the women leader of the Bayelsa State chapter of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), who is the immediate past Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the governor on Special Duties, Hon.…

Emma Ovundah The Nigerian military has sustained the onslaught against crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region. This is just as troops of 63 Brigade, Nigerian Army in conjunction with other security agencies dismantled more illegal refining sites, located along the fringes of River Niger, bordering Ndokwa East and Ndoni Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Delta and Rivers States respectively. A statement issued on Monday by the Acting Deputy Director 6 Division Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, said the operation was conducted, following credible intelligence on the monumental level of criminality going on in the area.…

•As Beke hails High Court verdict Emma Ovundah Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, said he and his team will be heading to Appeal Court to challenge a High Court judgment that restrained them from functioning in their positions as the party executive in the state. A Rivers State High Court presided over by Justice Sika Apprioku had on Monday sacked the Tony Okocha led 7-man Caretaker Committee of the APC in the state and reinstated the Emeka Beke led officials as the party executive in the state. Emeka Beke and…

By Ehichioya Ezomon The saying, “Be careful what you wish for,” may haunt former Vice President Atiku Abubakar going forward from the ashes of the 10-day #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest that rocked and racked parts of Nigeria between August 1 and 10, 2024. The presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 and 2023 General Elections was most vociferous in cheering the protesters from start to finish without a thought – as many concerned Nigerians had – for how quickly such protests turn violent in the absence of noticeable and recognisable leaders. Acknowledging the rights of Nigerians…

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Real Estate investor and Mayor of Housing, My-Ace China, and leading Port Harcourt-based entertainment promoter, K.O. Baba Jornsen, have come together in an initiative to create jobs and wealth in the Diobu neighbourhood of Port Harcourt. The duo, who began their careers and livelihoods in Diobu, the thriving centre of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, are partnering under the TEDx Diobu project which has won a license from TED International to organize a talkshow on Diobu to help rebuild the brand and the spirit of that section of Port Harcourt metropolis that drives the overall spirit…