Browsing: Nyesom Wike

The human rights lawyer stated his position on the ruling in a statement he made available to newsmen on Saturday

Ortom made this known in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

It will be duplicitous to argue that the present complex is sustainable or rewarding. It is clearly not. We have been on this tenuous scaffolding for decades without measurable progress. Really, it makes no moral sense that the accruals from certain states are prodigalised among other states which seem not be making efforts to become financially viable. What this system has created is indolence and a predilection for sponging off the federal government.

Governor Wike said this in a statewide broadcast on Monday after a court ruling barring the FIRS from collecting VAT.

Governor Wike said this in a statewide broadcast in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Monday.

Wike signed the recently passed bill by the Rivers State House of Assembly into law at Government House, Port Harcourt.

The caucus, led by Rear Amiral Ralph Osondu (retd.), made the remark at a news briefing in Umuahia on Tuesday.

He maintained that the internal rumbling that was recently witnessed in the party shows the failure of the NWC led by Prince Uche Secondus  to effectively carry out its responsibility as an opposition political party.

The approval was given by the state executive council meeting presided over by Gov. Nyesom Wike, at Government House, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday.

Wike spoke during the inspection of the four ongoing flyover projects in Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas of the state.

Wike, according to a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, spoke at the flag off of Woji-Aleto-Alesa-Refinery Road and bridge with spur to the East-West Road at Woji town.

The Governor, who spoke in a statement on Wednesday by his Media Aide, Kelvin Ebirim said it is unconstitutional for Buhari to shift his constitutional responsibility of securing lives and property of Nigerians to state governors

The PDP Concerned stakeholders in a statement jointly signed Senator Zainab A. Kure, Hon. Abubakar A. Tanko and Dr. Shem Zagbayi Nuhu, former Deputy Governor of Niger State, said the former Niger State Governor spoke for himself and not PDP stakeholders in the state

Wike said this on Monday when he spoke with newsmen after a barrage of accusations and abuses hurled at him by a former Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, over developments in the PDP and Rivers State.

Wike, who spoke in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Monday, was reacting to a statement in which Aliyu was perceived to have attacked him.

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, disclosed this after a closed door meeting with the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, at the Government House, Port Harcourt, on Tuesday.

The Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, on behalf of the state Governor, Nyesom Wike, presented cheques to 11 widows of Police Officers at the State Police Command on Monday in Port Harcourt.

Wike stated this during a grand reception held in his honour by the Ogoni nationality in Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government Area

The Forum stated this in a 12-point communique read by its Chairman, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State at the end of its four hours meeting held in Asaba, the Delta state capital.

Wike announced the decision in a statewide broadcast on Monday