I am of the opinion that the press should stop disturbing the Nigerian public with the inability of the state governors to conduct a mere election of 35 persons. They all have shown that they are not true democrats-both the person that changed the rule to suit him by being the umpire in an election […]
THE First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has asked to be left out of lingering political crisis in her home state, Rivers State. Mrs Jonathan, in her press release signed by the Director of Information, Office of the First Lady, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mrs Ayo Adesugba, said it was worrisome that the visit of the […]
THERE are indications that the two factional chairmen of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Rivers State’s Rotimi Amaechi and Plateau’s Jonah Jang, may be asked to step down for a neutral governor as part of moves to resolve the lingering NGF crisis. The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday that this was one of the decisions reached at […]
By SONI DANIEL Factional Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, leading a group of 19 governors, appeared back in the trenches, yesterday. Jang and Amaechi renewed the NGF crisis after the former scheduled a meeting of governors for Abuja today. The Rivers […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to quiz the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, and other principal officers loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The commission has already interrogated the embattled Majority Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who has just been granted bail over an attempted murder charge, assault, intent to maim […]
THE lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr. Ogbonna Nwuke, has condemned the arrest and detention of suppoters of Governor Rotimi Amaechi in the Peoples Democratic Party in his constituency. In a statement made available to journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Nwuke accused the police of bias in the political crisis […]
When in November 2012, Winifred Okey, received a call-up letter to begin her National Youth Service Corps programme in Rivers State, she was extremely happy. This was because she wanted to be posted there so that she would be close to her friends, who were staying there. The 23-year-old graduate’s happiness was however cut short […]
OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission stormed Rivers State on Monday and started quizzing public office holders in the state over a yet-to-be mentioned financial impropriety. Already, the EFCC investigators had quizzed the embattled Majority Leader of the state House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, over the finances of the House, our correspondents learnt. […]
By EGFUE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT — SELF determination seeking Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State has said it would drag Shell Petroleum Development Company, to court to stop the oil multinational from selling its assets in the area. Shell, whose vast oil exploration operations in Ogoniland had been shut since the 90s following Ogoni struggle […]
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORTHARCOURT—A GROUP, Rivers Peoples Forum, RPF, yesterday, called for arrest and prosecution of the Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, over an alleged statement credited to him at a rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a statement, president of the group, Mr Charles Bekwele, described the statement by Wike […]
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