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  … As Court Restrains EFCC from Arresting Rivers Contractors   The governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has urged prominent indigenes of the state and other Nigerians to stop de-marketing the state. Delivering a speech at the commissioning of the Port Harcourt International Airport Terminal on Thursday, …

  By Joel Anekwe   As the much awaited cleanup of Ogoniland is set to commence, a civil society organisation, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC) has called on the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to ensure adequate monitoring and reporting of the process to ensure a thorough job is …

  By Joel Anekwe   Some Port Harcourt-based legal practitioners have condemned the recent issuing of Executive Order (EO6) by President Muhammad Buhari, and the consequent travel ban placed on some 50 high profile Nigerians, describing this as illegal and unconstitutional. The President Buhari-led APC Federal Government, capitalising on a …

  By Joel Anekwe   The United Nations Children’s Funds UNICEF has scored Rivers State low on official registration of children born in the state, noting that only 30 per cent of such births are recorded. UNICEF Child Protection Specialist, Sharon Olatunji made the revelation during a media campaign to …

The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Limited, Nigeria’s leading beverage manufacturer, says it has invested over $1 billion in the country since 2014, and plans to invest as much as €600 million between 2019 and 2023. NBC’s Legal, Public Affairs and Communications Director, Mrs. Sade Morgan, made this known at a …

  By Joel Anekwe   Stakeholders from Ogoniland have reacted differently to the announcement last week by the Federal Government that it has released another $177 million into the account of the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project (HYPREP) for the Ogoni cleanup exercise. While some think the release of the …

  By Joel Anekwe   A non-governmental organisation, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, (Centre LSD) has called for the autonomy of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), a federal agency set up to handle the cleanup of oil polluted areas in nine states of the Niger Delta. The group …

  By Joel Anekwe   The crisis rocking the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) further deepened on Wednesday as a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt nullified the ward, local government and state congresses of the party conducted in August. The court, presided over by Justice …

  By Joel Anekwe   The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that Wednesday’s ruling by Justice Chinwendu Nwogu of the Port Harcourt High Court annulling the governorship primaries did not come to the party as a surprise. In a press conference reacting to the …

Firebrand Ijaw activist of Kalabari extraction, Rev. Dr Sokari Soberekon, has declared that the restructuring of Nigeria would end all agitations in the country and bring peace rather than war. Speaking during his 77th birthday celebration on Sunday in his church, Christ Jesus Link, Port Harcourt, Dr Soberekon said that …