More facts are emerging in the political crisis rocking Rivers State, with Edison Ehie, the Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, giving more insight on the reason behind the frosty relationship between his principal and the former Governor, Nyesom Wike. Ehie said the problem in Rivers State...
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A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has appealed to the party’s elders and stakeholders to intervene in the political crisis rocking Rivers. George, a PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) member, who made the appeal in a statement in Lagos, said...
Rivers State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, has resigned his appointment. Prof. Adangor said this in a letter dated April 24 and addressed to the office of the Secretary to the State Government on Wednesday in Port Harcourt. “I wish to state for the record,...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, on Thursday declared a purported list of the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee members , circulating in the media, as fake. Fubara disclosed this at the inauguration of the Port Harcourt International Automobile Spare Parts Trading and Commercial Centre...
Opposition Parties in the House of Representatives under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) have faulted the tenure extension for Rivers Local Governments chairmen. The spokesperson for the opposition lawmakers, Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere, voiced the position of the lawmakers at a news conference in Abuja...
Rivers State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sydney Gbara, has the political crises in the state will soon end. Gbara told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Saturday that majority of Rivers people no longer enjoyed the drama making rounds...
The Councillor representing Ward 9 in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers, Mr Achor Nna, has resigned his position as the Leader of the Legislative Council. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that Mr Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, is from same ward. Nna...
The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Thursday, declared his readiness to vacate office for a lasting peace in the state. The governor stated this in a programme on the African Independent Television (AIT). Rivers State has been plagued by a political crisis since October 30 last year...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has ordered immediate rehabilitation of the state’s Psychiatric Hospital in Rumuigbo in Obio Akpor Local Government Area. Governor Fubara gave the directive when he inspected ongoing building of a 44-bed space centre for drug addicts, with another 10-bed space for private patients in...
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, has accused Governor Siminialayi Fubara of delaying the implementation of the eight-point resolution toward ending political crisis in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that political tension enveloped the state in October...
The Rivers Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has lauded Gov. Siminalayi Fubara for approving the immediate promotion of Local Government workers with full financial benefits. The state President of the union, Mr Clifford Paul, made the commendation in a statement issued in Port...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Rivers State House of Assembly is to re-screen and re-confirm nine former Commissioners who resigned from the state executive council on Wednesday. The Clerk of the house, Mr Emeka Amadi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Port Harcourt. Mr. Amadi...
The political tsunami sweeping Rivers State appears unabating as three more commissioners on Thursday resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s cabinet. The latest to pull out of the cabinet are the Commissioner for Works George-Kelly Alabo – who served in the same capacity under Nyesom Wike’s government –...
If we go back to the history of Nigeria, the truth is: dear fatherland has learnt nothing. In the days of Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola, this was how they started inventing stuff that had never been in existence; and that has continued to trouble the Nigerian state, even...