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  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 …

The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Limited, Nigeria’s leading beverage manufacturer, says it has invested over $1 billion in the country since 2014, and plans to invest as much as €600 million between 2019 and 2023. NBC’s Legal, Public Affairs and Communications Director, Mrs. Sade Morgan, made this known at a …

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has organized its 2018 annual meeting with major stakeholders in the oil and gas sector, particularly rig owners and operators in the Eastern Zone, with the aim of fashioning out a way of moving the industry forward. The meeting which was held in Port …

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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  By Joel Anekwe   Youths in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State have declared their support for the re-election bid of the state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, to a second term in office. The youths made the declaration during the One Million Youths for New Rivers State sensitization …

  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 …

  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 …

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 …