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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 …
Read More »Rivers Registers Only 30% Of Child Births ~ UNICEF
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 …
Read More »School Proprietors In Rivers Celebrate ‘NAPPS Day’
The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) in Rivers State last week marked the association’s 13th anniversary with the theme, ‘Re-engineering Nigeria Education System for Effective Nation Building,’ in commemoration of the ‘NAPPS Day.’ Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, who was the special guest at …
Read More »Ogoni Cleanup: Mixed Reactions Trail FG’s $177m Release
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 …
Read More »Group Seeks Autonomy for HYPREP on Niger Delta Cleanup
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 …
Read More »More Troubles For Rivers APC As High Court Nullifies Primaries
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 …
Read More »… Ruling Did Not Come To Us As Surprise ~ Rivers APC
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 …
Read More »Nigeria’s Restructuring Will Bring Peace, Not War ~ Ijaw Activist
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 …
Read More »Wike Unveils NAFEST 2018 Mascot, Theme Song
By Joel Anekwe Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has unveiled the mascot and theme song for the 2018 National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) holding in Port Harcourt. Describing the unveiling ceremony as the beginning of activities for NAFEST 2018, at the Government House Port …
Read More »Isiguzo Emerges New NUJ President
South East bureau chief of ThisDay Newspaper, from Enugu Zone, Chris Isiguzo, on Friday emerged the national president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the union’s general election in Abeokuta Reports indicate that Isiguzo polled 346 votes to defeat the incumbent president, Waheed Odusile, who polled 329 votes. …
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