By Kinika Godwin Recently, the media in Rivers State was inundated with condemnation from indigenes and residents over Governor Nyesom Wike’s donation of N500 million to the government of Sokoto State. The governor had explained that the largess was to help the government of Sokoto State to rebuild a market …
Read More »2nd Covid-19 Lockdown Imminent in Rivers
By Joel Anekwe As the number of the 2nd wave of the Covid-19 cases continues to increase, the state governor, Nyesom Wike, has hinted that he would take strict measures to curb the further spread of the deadly virus. Some of the measures would include another round of lockdown to …
Read More »Diri, Wike, Akpabio Harp on Synergy Between NDDC, N’ Delta States
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, his Rivers counterpart, Chief Nyesom Wike and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, among other stakeholders have stressed the need for synergy between the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and state governments in the region. They made the call over the weekend …
Read More »Stakeholders Decry Insecurity, Corruption as Challenges Facing Export
By John Amaowoh, Port Harcourt Stakeholder’s in Nigeria’s export business have identified escalating insecurity, corruption and others as major challenges facing the non-oil sector of the nation`s economy. The stakeholders at a one day round table forum for Cassava and Palm Producers in Non Oil Sector in Rivers State, organized …
Read More »Wike Plans to Spend N448.6bn in 2021
By Joel Anekwe Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, Wednesday presented a N448,660,773,476 billion budget, for 2021 fiscal year to the state’s House of Assembly for consideration and approval. Christened: ‘Budget of Recovery and Consolidation,’ the proposal is made up of N305, 894,284.061 for capital expenditure, and N142,776,489,415 – recurrent expenditure, …
Read More »EndSARS: Rivers Commission of Inquiry Receives 171 Petitions
By Joel Anekwe The Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into alleged acts of police brutality held its inaugural sitting on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, with the chairman of the commission, Justice C. Uriri, saying that the commission has received 171 petitions. The petitions are estimated to about the highest …
Read More »NBA Sets Up Committee on Oyigbo Killings
By Joel Anekwe The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has set up a fact-finding team to investigate the alleged killing of Oyigbo indigenes by the Nigerian military. The four-man team which headed by NBA’s 1st vice president, John Aikpokpo-Martins, also has two former NBA Port-Harcourt branch chairmen, Victor Frank-Briggs and Anthonia …
Read More »IPOB, Kanu Fanning Embers of Disaffection in Rivers
By Tunde Uchegbuo The alleged wanton destruction of lives and property by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in different parts of Rivers State, and the utterances and insults of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, are capable of instigating ethnic disaffection between Rivers indigenes and Igbo residents in …
Read More »Rivers $12m Cassava Initiative to Create 3000 Jobs
By Joel Anekwe Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has expressed optimism that the state’s $12 million cassava processing initiative will create jobs and enhance the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country. The governor urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to support the initiative …
Read More »Wike Reinforces Ban on IPOB Activities in Rivers
By Joel Anekwe Rivers State government, in line with the proscription order of the Federal Government, has reinforced a ban on activities of Indigenous Peoples Organization of Biafra (IPOB) in the state, adding that no form of procession or agitation by the group or any of its affiliates is allowed …
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