… Receives Bayelsa Athletes who represented Nigeria at ECOWAS African Wrestling Tournament The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Sports Development, Dr Daniel Igali, has called on the National Sports Commission and the Main Organising Committee of the National Sports Festival in Ogun State to include traditional wrestling, known as ‘Kuwa,’ and …
Read More »PDP Crisis: No Person is Bigger than Party ~ Diri
The governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is bigger than any individual and that its internal challenges would be fixed once the members resolve to tackle them. Speaking to journalists at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday after the …
Read More »Tinubu Backing Wike to Fuel Rivers Crisis ~ APC Chieftain
By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has alleged that the protracted political crisis in Rivers state has continued because the FCT Minister, Barr. Nyesom Wike, is being supported by President Bola Tinubu. He said Wike, with the support of …
Read More »Supreme Court Ruling: We’re Making Effort to Present 2025 Budget to Assembly ~ Fubara
By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has explained that he made frantic efforts to notify the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhula and members of his visit to the Assembly to present the 2025 budget. He said the move was in compliance …
Read More »Pro-Fubara Group Insists Rivers Gov ‘Hasn’t Committed Impeachable Offence’
By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Supreme Council for Sim Worldwide has kicked against the call by Chief Tony Okocha of the All Progressives Congress, Rivers State for the resignation or impeachment of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The pro-Fubara group warned against any attempt to impeach the governor, adding that it …
Read More »NCDMB Acquires 20% Equity in African Refinery’s 100kbpd Project
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has sealed a deal to acquire 20 per cent equity in a 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery project being established by African Refinery Group Ltd, in partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC Ltd). The share purchase agreement for this …
Read More »RSIEC Fixes Council Polls August 9
By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission RSIEC has announced that election into the 23 local councils of the state will hold on August 9, 2025. Chairman of the commission, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, rtd made the announcement on Wednesday during a stakeholders meeting at the commission’s …
Read More »Adeleke Assures Osun Monarchs, ‘No Court Order Reinstates Sacked LG Chairmen’
Governor Ademola Adeleke has held a special session with the Osun State Council of Traditional Rulers, affirming that there is no court order reinstating the court-sacked Yes/No council chairmen. The briefing was a continuation of the governor’s statewide consultations with elders and opinion moulders on the recent uproar on the …
Read More »Nuhu Ribadu in the Eyes of a Youth Leader
By Hamzat Lawal Mallam Nuhu Ribadu became a household name in Nigeria during the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. He was a prominent face in the small team of reformers put together by Obasanjo to set Nigeria on the path of democratic progress and economic prosperity in the dawning …
Read More »Fubara Pledges to Implement Supreme Court Ruling, Orders HLGAs to Take Over Councils
By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Following the Friday February 28 Supreme Court Judgment nullifying the local government election in Rivers State held on October 5, 2024, State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has ordered the 23 local government chairmen of the state to had over to the Head of LG Administration …
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