Senior Rivers State government officials have continued to express surprise at the denial of the transactions with the state over its aircraft by the management of Caverton Helicopters. Representatives of the company had, in the wake of the controversies surrounding the aircraft, denied Rivers State’s claims that it had been operated on behalf of the […]
The police have uncovered another ‘baby factory’. Six expectant teenage girls kept in a guardian’s home in Enugu were rescued after a raid on the private residence by security operatives. Enugu police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu said yesterday that the anti-kidnap unit of the police, acting on a tip-off raided No 7, Anyansi Lane, Ogui Enugu, […]
The Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis hit a frightening bend yesterday, with House of Assembly Speaker Otelemaba Dan Amachree alleging a plot to assassinate Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and other officials. He did not name those behind the plot. In an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, the Speaker said there was a […]
BARELY 24 hours after security operatives vacated the secretariat of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, suspected hoodlums on Tuesday razed a building in the premises. The PUNCH learnt that the hoodlums threw dynamite into a building housing the council’s generating set at about 10am. The secretariat gets its supply of electricity from […]
The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the Senate has resolved to wade into the prolonged confrontation between President Goodluck Jonathan and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. It will also mediate in the conflict between Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, and Senator Aloysius Etok. Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, said the PDP caucus […]
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has threatened to expose some Abuja-based politicians from the state owing to the crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party in the state. Amaechi, who said he was no more running for any political position, added that the people of the state would lose their respect for his critics […]
THERE are indications that some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly perceived to be pro-Governor Rotimi Amaechi are being wooed by the camp of the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike. Amaechi and Wike are the two dramatis personae in the current crisis tearing apart members of the Peoples Democratic Party […]
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday said contrary to reports, the state government’s private jet costs $45m (N7.1bn) and not $57 (N9bn). The governor said this through his Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, in an interview with our correspondent in Port Harcourt. Amaechi described the allegations that he inflated the […]
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT — Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr. Felix Obuah, has dismissed as mere speculations, allegations of plot to impeach Governor Chibuike Amaechi of the state. Briefing newsmen, yesterday, at the state secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt, Obuah said his cardinal programme was to unite […]
*Rivers govt explains, wonders why State was singled out for sanction By Okey Ndiribe & Jimitota Onoyume The House of Representatives, yesterday, condemned the grounding of an aircraft, a Bombardier BD 700 Global Express jet, belonging to the Rivers State Government by the National Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, describing it as “witch-hunt” of “perceived political […]
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