No fewer than three persons were reportedly shot in Rivers State on Wednesday during an alleged attack on two state…
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The truth is that Governor Fubara is too loyal, calm and very humble to even think of fighting anybody.
According to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, the police chief performed the launch at the Sharks Football Stadium, Port-Harcourt, saying that the move is a continuation of the implementation process of the special operation in the country.
He said his administration would not allow itself to be distracted by any form of blackmail and smear campaign by detractors
He said it was obvious that the police had become partisan when it decided to execute an interim injunction on the holding of the PDP National Convention when there was another court order directing it and the Department of State Services to provide security for the same convention
However, Wike explained that he and Amaechi, now the Minister of Transportation, differed politically because they belonged to different parties
According to the statement, just less than 24 hours after the threat, the INEC office in Senator Abe’s South-East Senatorial District Headquarters, Bori, was burnt down.
The Rivers State Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Monday dismissed a motion by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike,…
N15bn owed to Zenith bank: Governor Amaechi in his valedictory address to Rivers people told announced the loans owed to various banks. I will herein reproduce the excerpts of that speech “Today, Rivers state is the least indebted state with a loan portfolio of N17.7 billion to banks owed as follows: Agriculture loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria – N2 billion; Zenith bank plc – N15.7 billion.” This was the status as at May 27th. The repayment for the loans is via an irrevocable standing order and so will have reduced as at today
He said: “Now therefore, I Chief Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (CON), Governor, Rivers State of Nigeria, in exercise of the power conferred upon me by section 105 of the Constitution and all other powers enabling me in that behalf hereby proclaim that the 7th Assembly of the 4th Republic of the Rivers State House of Assembly stands dissolved, while the first session of the 8th Assembly shall hold on this day, first day of June, 2015 at the Assembly Complex, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt
The petitioners were Kemka Elenwo, KOWA party; Dakuku Peterside, All Progressives Congress; Charles Harry, All Progressives Grand Alliance; Minaibim Harry, Social Democratic Party; and Labour Party
On the other hand, the inauguration committee under the leadership of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Austin Opara has commenced work on critical areas to ensure the successful swearing in of Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and the relevant official ceremonies that will run with the epoch making event
He stated that his development blueprint, the New Rivers Vision 2015, was carefully designed to incorporate the contributions of workers from the public and private sectors towards the growth of the state
This accusation was contained in a statement on Tuesday by Emma Okah, the Chairman of the Media and Publicity Committee of the PDP Campaign Organisation in Rivers State
Among those who signed the press statement on Wednesday were the candidates of the National Conscience Party, Anastesia Tepikor; Alliance for Democracy, Prince Uchechukwu Ichenwo; and KOWA, Barrister Kemka Elenwo
His closest challenger and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, scored 124,896 votesse
The first lady, therefore, urged the people of Rivers State to cast their votes for him in the 2015 general elections
The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, said this in Bauchi on Monday at the North-East stakeholders’ town hall meeting on Tertiary Education Trust Fund intervention
Addressing leaders and other PDP faithful on Friday at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State during the official commissioning/handing over of the first Batch of Branded Buses to the 23 LGAs in Rivers State, the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, said the party is far ahead of the APC and is poised to vote out from office the “APC monsters” currently hibernating in the Government House and milking the state dry
He said what was delaying the payment was an agreement by both parties on the modalities for the payment