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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Mrs. Udensi lied over Rivers elections – Peterside campaign outfit Recent views expressed on Africa Independent Television, AIT, by Mrs. Eno Udensi, President of a South African-based Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, that elections in Rivers State were free and fair, have been dismissed and described as an afterthought from a biased observer. Mrs. Udensi, who, also, […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, INEC Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
Dakuku Peterside The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Rivers State governorship election, Dakuku Peterside, has expressed confidence that the electoral fraud allegedly perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party during the elections will not stand. Dakuku, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, explained that it was too […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 11th, 2015
The governorship and State House of Assembly elections are scheduled to hold today, April 11, 2015 across Nigeria. But the governorship elections will only hold in 29 states in the country excluding Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Kogi, Anambra, Bayelsa and the Federal Capital Territory. The elections will be a follow-up to the presidential and […]
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Election 2015, Elections, General Politics, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 11th, 2015
Mrs. Patience Jonathan Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Friday said there was no truth in the allegation that she was pressuring the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to rig the governorship election in Rivers State in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party. The state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had during […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
Mrs. Patience Jonathan The wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday visited her hometown, Okrika, in Rivers State. Jonathan’s visit is the first since the March 28 Presidential election, in which her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, conceded defeat to the President-elect, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Patience, who expressed surprise at the large turnout of […]
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Columnists, Headlines, Nwaorgu Faustinus, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 4th, 2015
Rivers APC kicks; cuts short presidential victory celebration Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC, has uncovered Chief Nyesome Wike’s, plans to pay a whopping N1 billion monthly salary from the budget of Rivers State to the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, if he wins the April 11th polls […]
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Akwa Ibom, Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Raw Politics, Rivers, State News
Monday, March 30th, 2015
Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), continues to lead incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a comfortable margin, even as controversial election results from Rivers and Akwa Ibom states were added to the national tally, giving a boost to Mr. Jonathan. Election observers as well as Governor Rotimi […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 29th, 2015
Thousands of supporters of opposition party on Sunday demonstrated in the southern state of Rivers, calling for the cancellation of elections locally because of alleged irregularities. The demonstrators from the All Progressives Congress (APC) converged on the local offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state capital, Port Harcourt. “We are here […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Kwara, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Queues of bank customers at ATM service points on Aba Road, Port Harcourt… on Friday. | credits: Stanley Ogidi Nigerians across the country besieged commercial banks on Friday to make last minute cash withdrawals ahead of today’s presidential and parliamentary elections. In Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, residents flooded Automated Teller Machine points across the […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
By Our Reporter on March 26, 2015 National From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port Harcourt Contrary to speculations that the deputy governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru, who defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) last Sunday, would be impeached and replaced, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday said his position remained intact. The governor said though, he […]
