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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, April 15th, 2013
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT— RIVERS State Government, yesterday, released details of the agreement for the purchase of its two helicopters that had attracted serious media attention lately. Briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Commissioner for Information and Communications in the state, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, said it was important that the Helicopter Purchase Agreement was released […]
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Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has ruled out the possibility of having a violent revolution in the country. Amaechi spoke in Ekiti State on Saturday at the second Nigeria Symposium for Young and Emerging Leaders. Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, Prof. Pat Utomi, Chief Executive Officer of Sahara Group, Mr. Tonye Cole, and representative of […]
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Jigawa, Kaduna, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Posters of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and his Rivers State counterpart, Mr. Rotimi Ameachi, announcing their intention to contest the 2015 presidential poll on the platform of the Peoples Democracy Party have flooded Kaduna. This came less than 48 hours after prominent politicians in the North central zone boycotted the party’s reconciliation meeting […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Niger, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
MARCH 12, 2013 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI, ABUJA 110 COMMENTS Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi | credits: File copy Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, who is also the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was among six governors that were not at the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT—THE Rivers State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed a vote of confidence on Governor Chibuike Amaechi of the state. The motion, signed by 26 of the 36 members, dominated the Assembly’s debate, yesterday. The motion presented by Leader of the House, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, said that the stance of the lawmakers […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Rivers State House of Assembly was on Thursday thrown into confusion as lawmakers disagreed on a motion to pass a vote of confidence in the state Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Twenty-six of 32 members of the Assembly supported the motion presented by the House Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, while three others, believed to be followers of […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Peoples Democratic Party governors sympathetic to the embattled Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, are threatening to leave the PDP, SUNDAY PUNCH has gathered. Reliable sources within the party told our correspondents on Friday that a few of the governors had intimated the party leadership with their disaffection and […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
UNIPORT killings: Court discharges 7 suspects News Friday, March 1, 2013 Arrested suspects paraded by the Police in Port Harcourt. advertisement By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT-A Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate, Mr. Emma Woke, Rivers State, has discharged seven out of the 18 suspects, arrested in connection with the killing of four students of the University […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
advertisement By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT— Some female students of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Port Harcourt, have been displaced, following a dawn fire, which razed one of the female hostels on campus. The fire consumed the entire Hostel A2 bungalow, displacing official residents and several squatters in over 30 rooms with […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Rivers, State News
Monday, February 25th, 2013
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor LAGOS — The Presidency was, last night, jittery, following the collapse of plans to remove Governor Chibuike Amaechi as chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF. The failure of the plans which got to fever pitch, yesterday, forced presidency officials into a change of plans ahead of today’s scheduled election […]
