Youths in Rivers State have eulogized a former chairman of Ahoada East Local Government Area, High Chief Cassidy Ikegbidi, for his contributions to the development of Ahoada and Ekpeyeland. The youths who made the commendation during a visit to the former council chairman described him as a role model who …
Read More »Wike Alerts Australia, Others on ‘APC, INEC Collision To Rig 2019 Election’
Joel Anaekwe Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has drawn the attention of the international community to what he called the latest rigging system hatched by the ruling APC wherein they use the Police to concoct electoral results in collusion with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Wike who …
Read More »Rivers Assembly Gives Auditor-General Ultimatum, Warns Varsity Mgt
The Rivers State of House of has issued the “last warning” to the management of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. This followed the university’s failure to appear before it on Tuesday 15 August 2017 even after the house had threatened to invoke section 128 and 129 of the 1999 constitution …
Read More »Crime Fighting: Criticise Me Where Necessary ~ Rivers CP
The Commissioner of Police Rivers State Command Zaki Ahmed has urged the public especially hononary members of the Police Officer’s Mess to criticize him where he has made mistakes. He said as a human being, that he was bound to make mistakes and therefore should be told when such mistakes …
Read More »Security Challenges, Crime Negatively Impacting on Rivers Economy ~ Capt. Briggs
An industrialist, Engr. Captain Briggs Opunabo Dokubo, has said that some of the societal vices happening in the country are partly responsible for the continual noise-diving of Rivers State economy. Capt. Briggs made this statement while speaking with our correspondent at his office in Port Harcourt. According to him, the …
Read More »MOSOP Raise Alarm Over ‘Plots To Resume Oil Operations In Ogoni’
The president of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Comrade Legborsi Saro- Pyagbara, has raised alarm over “a grand plan by Shell Development Petroleum Company (SPDC) and Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) to clandestinely resume oil operations in Ogoni land.” The MOSOP President made this known during …
Read More »Towards 2019: I’m Not Leaving APC ~ Abe
By Joel Anaekwe, Port Harcourt Aftermath of last weekend’s ward and local government non-elective congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which further exposed the cracks in the party in Rivers State, the senator representing Rivers South East senatorial district, Magnus Abe has said that no amount of …
Read More »Rivers Assembly: Court Upholds Anabraba as Minority Leader
A high court sitting in Port Harcourt has upheld the position of Hon Benibo Anabraba as minority leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly. Justice C.D. Green of high court 20 at a ruling that lasted over 30mins ruled that the election of Hon Anabraba who represents Akuku Toru …
Read More »Pay Workers, Pensioners ~ Rivers APC Charges Wike
By Joel Anakwe, Port Harcourt The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has charged the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike to stop “his endless biometric data capturing of Rivers civil servants and pensioners and go ahead and pay them their salaries.” The APC`s charge is coming on …
Read More »No Restructuring, No 2019 Elections ~ Edwin Clark
Foremost Ijaw leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clarke, has declared that no elections will take place in 2019 if the much clamoured for restructuring of Nigeria did not take place. Clarke who spoke during a recent interview with newsmen at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa said anyone who …
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