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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Rivers, State News
Monday, July 1st, 2013
BY Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North ABUJA—In a dramatic twist, the Presidency declared, yesterday, that there was no rift between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, told Vanguard in an interview that the seeming face-off between Jonathan and Amaechi […]
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General Politics, Governors, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Friday, June 28th, 2013
ACN flays alleged barring of Rivers helmsman from Jonathan • Why we prevented supporters from visiting gov, by CP THE rift between Governors Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and Jonah David Jang of Plateau State over the Chairmanship of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) came to the fore again Thursday at the State House […]
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General Politics, Governors, Plateau, Rivers
Friday, June 28th, 2013
A drama played out at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday as the two governors laying claim to the chairmanship of the factionalised Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Jonah Jang of Plateau State, sat side by side at the National Economic Council meeting, presided over by Vice […]
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Governors, Headlines, Plateau, Rivers
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
By Henry Umoru ABUJA — Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, yesterday, scheduled a meeting of the Forum for tomorrow to discuss among others, post-election disagreements that emanated from the NGF election. Members of NGF will also discuss issues relating to the forum and its partners as well as […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Friday, June 21st, 2013
Port Harcourt —The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, said she was not in Rivers to fight Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Jonathan said this in Port Harcourt when 135 chiefs from Kalabari Kingdom called on her. She said: “I am not here to fight the Governor of Rivers State because he is my brother. We should […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on Wednesday shunned the inauguration of the South-South Zonal Secretariat of the Women for Change and Development Initiative by the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Apart from the governor and his wife, other top officials of the Rivers State government also boycotted the occasion which […]
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Governors, Headlines, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Taye Obateru LAGOS — Governors Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Jonah Jang of Plateau State were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over their claims to the chairmanship of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF. Amaechi, told his Plateau State colleague to stop impersonating him as chairman of […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, Sokoto, State News
Friday, June 14th, 2013
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aliyu Wamakko, may refuse to appear before the peace panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to mediate in the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party. The committee, which was set up by the President following the protracted crisis rocking the party, has six governors […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Long stretches of public roads in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, have been blocked due to a wedding involving the daughter of a former state governor whose mother happens to be a Justice of the country’s Supreme Court. Both Madera Road and a stretch of Aguiyi Ironsi Road were blocked and manned by armed and fierce-looking […]
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Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday vowed not to compromise on the second-term mandate given to him by a majority of 17 governors at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum election in Abuja on May 24. The Peoples Democratic Party last week suspended Amaechi over alleged anti-party activities. But analysts are of the view that he […]
