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By Kelechi Esogwa-Amadi The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Port Harcourt office, has joined other agencies around the world to mark this year’s World Environment Day with the theme: Beat Plastic Pollution Through Reuse. The event was held at the Port Harcourt office of the …
Read More »Faith-Based NGO Donates Free Uniforms To Indigent, Street Children
A faith-based organization, the MD-Info-Change Development Initiative (MD-IDI), has donated free school uniforms numbering over 60 to indigent street children in Rivers State for the 2018/2019 academic session. About 11 free uniforms were presented to indigent students of State School Elekahia and Iche Akarolo Model Primary School Elekahia with an …
Read More »Adaka Boro: Ijaw Youths Insist on ‘Resource Control,’ Mark 50th Anniversary
By Kelechi Esogwa-Amadi There was traffic gridlock in parts of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Wednesday, as a crowd of Ijaw youths marched through the major roads in the city to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of their hero, Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro. Major …
Read More »Rivers Assembly: Lawmaker Calls on Speaker ‘To Resign’
The lawmaker representing Ahoada East constituency 1 in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Martins Mannah, has called for the resignation of the speaker of the assembly, Rt Hon Ikuinyi Uwaji Ibani, for allegedly mismanaging the affairs of the House and failing to cater for the welfare of staff …
Read More »Buhari Must Not Be Impeached – Ijaw Activist
Ijaw, Kalabari-born activist, Rev. Dr Sokari Soberekon, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari should not be impeached, but should be allowed to stay and restructure Nigeria before next year, advising that the 2019 general elections should be suspended. Reacting to insinuations in some quarters that the President has failed, Dr …
Read More »My Disagreement With Amaechi, Political ~ Abe
The senator representing Rivers South East and governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, says his disagreement with the minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is political. In a statement in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Abe said …
Read More »APC Uncovers Plot To Stop ‘Subsequent Congresses in Rivers’
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says some fraudulent persons, posing as members of the party, have contrived a plot to obtain a court injunction restraining the conduct of its local government congresses. State Publicity Secretary of the party, Senibo Chris Finebone, in a statement on …
Read More »#StopTheSoot: Rivers CSOs Lead March For Cleaner Air In Port Harcourt
Civil society groups in Rivers State, under the banner of the Rivers Civil Society Organisations (RIVCSO), on Thursday led a march through the streets of the state capital, Port Harcourt in protest over the continuing emission of soot in the city and its environs. The emission of soot has for …
Read More »Hold Chiefs Responsible If APC Fails In 2019, Amaechi Tells Opobo People
By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt The minister of Transportation and leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi has charged the people of Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area to hold their chiefs responsible if the party fails to win the governorship seat in 2019. …
Read More »Upland/Riverine Dichotomy Is No Longer Necessary In Rivers Politics ~ Wike
By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt The governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike has said that the current political concern in the state is to keep the state one and united, adding that the issue of upland/riverine dichotomy was no longer necessary. He said one of the greatest achievements …
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