BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME Rivers state govern ment has ordered former governor Chibuike Amaechi , Brigadier Anthony Ukpo rtd and some appointees of the former governor to refund about 100 billion naira allegedly missing from the state’s coffer. This development is contained in a white paper released yesterday by the state government on the recommendations of […]
Immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has filed a suit against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party’s chairman in Rivers State, Felix Obuah and two others over allegations of foreign accounts ownership and funds embezzlement. The former governor is seeking that the court compel PDP and Obuah to pay him 300 million as […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – About five persons are feared dead in a gas explosion that occurred at a place they sell gas on Eliozu area of Port Harcourt. Details at press time were hazy. The Rivers state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad confirmed the explosion on phone but said he will […]
By Jimitota Onoyume Traders at Rumuolumeni Market abandoned their wares to dance as they saw the convoy of Governor Nyesom Wike who was in the area to inspect work on the abandoned Rumuolumeni Road. They offered prayers, thanking the governor for resuming work on the dilapidated road. A resident, who simply gave his name as […]
Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 The immediate past governor of Rivers State Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has again explained why he is opposed to and wants to stop the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by his successor, Nyesom Wike to probe some selected government transactions, while Amaechi was governor. In a statement released by […]
Rotimi Amaechi ADVERTISEMENT THE Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, on Thursday, dismissed the suit filed by a former governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, challenging the setting up of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to probe his administration. The State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, had constituted […]
Nyesom Wike is Governor of the month Nyesom Wike wins CGPI July Governor of the month Award … Aminu Tambuwal is in 2nd palce Rivers state Governor Nyesom Wike has been judged to be Nigerian Governor of the month of July based on a comparative analysis of Governors performance in Nigeria. The study tagged […]
Peterside and Wike The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Thursday reaffirmed its ex parte order made on June 11, 2015, granting permission to the All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, to inspect the electoral materials used […]
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase | credits: http://www.thescoopng.com Following a rise in the crime wave, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has redeployed the Commissioners of Police in Lagos, Ogun and Rivers states and replaced them with new hands. Lagos had last week recorded a violent bank robbery during which millions of naira […]
Written by: Dapo Falade – Port Harcourt Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Cynthia advertisement OP HEADLINES Last Tuesday, 23-year-old Miss Cynthia Adaeze Onwuchuruba reversed what appeared to be a curse on a school, Community Secondary School (CSS), Abuloma in Port Harcourt Rivers State which had been in existence for 24 years. Doing what many […]
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