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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) have resolved to collaborate towards ensuring efficiency and ease of doing business at the Onne Port. This resolve will also see both bodies work towards harmonizing charges at the port and the free zone area. Listing …

The chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA), Mr. Uzo Nwamara has decried what he termed neglect of the writers in the state by governments and corporate bodies. He made this known during the 2018 ANA Inter-Secondary Schools Poetry Competition/World Poetry Day held at …

Sharp condemnation, especially from the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), has greeted Governor Nyesom Wike’s signing of the Rivers State Neighborhood Watch Safety Corps Law No. 8 of 2018 into law. Wike, last week assented to the Neighborhood Watch law, along with two others – the Rivers State Secret Cult …

Following the Rivers State House of Assembly’s rejection of the proposal seeking financial autonomy for local governments, in the ongoing review of the Nigerian constitution, the state chapters of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have expressed disappointment with the Assembly over …

  By Hamzat Lawal   If there is one thing on which political thinkers all over the world agree on, it is the idea that a leader has no glowing legacy or historic impact unless he or she has a robust successor plan. The baton of personalized political principles must …

… Rejects Senate Seat The deputy governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, has debunked rumours that House of Assembly members loyal to his boss, Governor Rochas Okorocha, are planning to initiate impeachment proceedings against him. In a chat with correspondents at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Prince Madumere noted …

The governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike has sworn-in 15 local government caretaker committee chairmen, following their screening and confirmation by the State House of Assembly. Performing the swearing-in ceremony at the Government House Port Harcourt on Thursday, Wike charged the caretaker committee chairmen to pay the outstanding salaries …

The Abia State government says it is poised to increase its production of cocoa, through an effective partnership with those presently farming the crop. Declaring open a workshop on ‘Increasing the Production of Cocoa for Export in Abia State’ on Tuesday in Umuahia, the governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie …

Miss Emmanuella Chiamaka Mark, the four-month old child of Bright Mark Chinatu, the taxi driver who was reportedly killed by a Police officer at Rumuokoro Junction, in Port Harcourt on February 18, 2018, last Monday led members of the Rivers State Civil Society Organization, the Drivers Welfare Association and others …

The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Udom Emmanuel has signed the 2018 Appropriation bill into law. The total figure of 646.6 billion Naira, which he assented to on Wednesday, is against the 651 billion naira he had earlier proposed to the State House of Assembly. A breakdown of the …