The Rivers State chapter of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has suspended its planned industrial action. This followed the intervention of the state councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Leaders of the NLC and TUC had on Monday, November 6, 2017 …
Read More »NAFDAC, Rivers Market Women Partner To Check Fake Drugs
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Rivers State Traders and Market Women Association have resolved to partner towards checking the incidence of fake and counterfeit products in stores and market across Rivers State. This understanding was reached during a courtesy visit by the …
Read More »APC LG Chairmen Pledge Loyalty To Amaechi, Ikanya
By JOEL ANEKWE, Port Harcourt As the crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State chapter continues to widen, the Forum of LGA Party Chairmen have pledged their loyalty to the leader of the party in the state and Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, and …
Read More »NDDC Empowers Physically Challenged, Charges Youths on Entrepreneurship
By JOEL ANEKWE, Port Harcourt The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has distributed mobility and hearing aids to people living with disabilities in the Niger Delta region even as it charged youths to embrace entrepreneurship. Managing Director of the commission, Nsima Ekere, handed over the items, which included 80 …
Read More »Inaugural Lecture: Sciencing, Key To Societal Change ~ Green-Osahogulu
A former vice chancellor of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) Rumuolumeni, in Rivers State, Prof. Rosemund Dienye Green-Osahogulu, has said that sciencing can be used as a tool for attitudinal change, and that the decay in morals in the society can be corrected through the teaching of sciencing …
Read More »2015 LG Election: Rivers PDP, APC Take War To LGAs
… Community Leaders Seek CJN, NJC Intervention By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its rival All Progressives Congress (APC), both engaged on a struggle for the political soul of the state, have taken their war to the local government level. …
Read More »PANDEF To Meet On Niger Delta, Youth Devt
By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) says it would hold a conference in Port Harcourt on issues relating to the development of the Niger Delta region, its youths and maritime university, amongst others. A former Minister of Aviation and Labour, who is also one …
Read More »Monkey Pox Scare: Army, Govt Deny Forceful Inoculation of Rivers Children
Following the scare that broke out in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, as rumours of alleged army vaccination drive went round the capital, authorities of 6 Division Nigerian Army and the state government have denied sending soldiers into the streets to vaccinate children. Pandemonium broke loose in various parts of the …
Read More »Rivers Assembly Workers Issue 14-Day Ultimatum
The workers of the Rivers State House of Assembly, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), have issued a 14 -day ultimatum to the management of the Assembly to pay up their 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 outfit/ committee allowances and other outstanding welfare issues due them. Chapter …
Read More »Daewoo, N’ Delta Youths Agree On Workers’ Pay, Welfare
Following contentions over Daewoo workers’ pay-off, and a subsequent meeting on October 6, 2017 in Port Harcourt by representatives of Daewoo Nigeria Limited and Indorama, Daewoo workers’ chairman, Amadi Chu, and leadership of the Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM), Rivers chapter, have agreed that “the purported agreement to a pay-off, …
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