Rivers

APC exposes assassination plot by PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has pounded the gong over an alleged plan by the Peoples Democratic Party to murder its candidate for the Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the legislative rerun election, Senator Magnus Abe. The allegation is in reply to a statement released by PDP on Sunday, questioning why Magnus Abe still has... Read More

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PDP convention will hold despite court order – Wike

Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike has insisted that the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party will hold as planned in Port Harcourt despite the recent ruling of a court which sacked the interim working committee. Prior to the court ruling, the Ahmed Makarfi led PDP had fixed the national convention for August 17... Read More

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Amaechi, Wike, others meet over Rivers re-run elections

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi were today in attendance at a meeting to chart a course for the peaceful conduct of the forthcoming elections into the Senate and the House of Representatives in the state. The Tuesday night meeting which was reportedly convened by the Acting Inspector General of... Read More

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Opinion: In Rivers state, the misery is now complete

by Chris Finebone When a governor decides to use expected dividend earnings of his State as collateral security for borrowing as in the case of the N9b Zenith Bank loan secured with Rivers State Government expected dividend from Indorama Petrochemical Company, then you can imagine that the people and their offsprings are all in a ONE... Read More

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‘I still remain PDP chairman’ | Ali Modu Sheriff disagrees with Court ruling

Factional leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has maintained that even though a Federal High Court in Port-Harcourt on Monday ruled against his leadership of the party, he still remains PDP’s National Chairman. Sheriff has been embroiled in a messy power tussle since May 21 when he was sacked as the chairman of the... Read More

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INEC

This is when Kogi, Kano, Imo, Rivers states will hold rerun election

The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Monday, announced that the rerun elections for Kogi, Rivers, Imo and Kano states would hold on July 23rd and 30th 2016. According to a statement released by the electoral body, the commission came to the conclusion on the date for the rerun elections following a stakeholders meeting held at... Read More

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This video shows police officers brutalising a man and his sympathiser (WATCH)

The police, they say is your friend. But for this man in Rivers state and his sympathiser, the police was far from friendly to them. A video posted by @Instablog9ja on Instagram shows a group of policemen assaulting and brutally beating a man while trying to force him into an open vehicle. The battering officers,... Read More

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Dele Agekameh: The Niger Delta stand-off

by Dele Agekameh As is well known, even the greatest wars ever fought on earth ended at a conference table. Sometimes, it comes after avoidable deaths and destruction of human and material resources. That seems to be the case in the Niger Delta where many weeks after embarking on indiscriminate destruction of key oil facilities,... Read More

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Gunmen in military uniform waylay, murder APC chieftain

Former Councillor of Ward 1, in the Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Allain John-Morrison was beheaded by gunmen clad in military uniforms on Tuesday. The APC chieftain was murdered after his killers waylaid him while returning from Port Harcourt via a motorcycle. The motorcyclist, who was spared of the attack, reported the ordeal to the... Read More

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Opinion: Why propaganda against Amaechi will ultimately fail

By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze Jordan B Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist must have had Chief Nyesom Wike the Rivers State Governor in mind when he postulated his famous quote that, “When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth”. Paul Watzlawick writing... Read More

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Opinion: How to get away with murder

By Nana Aisha Salaudeen Nigeria has an illegitimate culture of dispensing ‘justice’ on ‘blundering’ individuals – jungle/mob justice. There are no people as united as a mob. The mob does not know religion or economics or ethnicity. They are not concerned with law and order and they certainly care not about the innocence of their victims. They only... Read More

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5 things to know about the Niger Delta Clean-up

For over two decades, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and the people of Ogoni kingdom continuously agitated for the clean up of their land polluted by years of careless oil drilling and exploration by foreign multinationals. On Thursday, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo represented President Muhammadu Buhari to flag off... Read More

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BREAKING: VP Osinbajo to flag off Niger Delta Clean-up, not Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari was scheduled to attend the flag off of the Clean-Up exercise of Ogoni land on Thursday, June 2, however, that plan has been adjusted. For unspecified reasons, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been named as the representative of the President at the ceremony. Sahara Reporters had earlier reported that the President... Read More

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INEC

INEC banks on ‘hope’ for suspended elections

Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, said that it will hopefully conclude elections suspended in Rivers, Imo, Kogi and Kano states before July 31, 2016. According to a statement issued by the INEC Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, in Abuja, the commission disclosed that it has received several... Read More

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Why Wike did not celebrate Democracy Day

While the whole country celebrated Democracy Day yesterday, Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike refused to and he has revealed why. The governor, speaking at a thanksgiving mass to mark the first anniversary of his administration at Our Lady of Holy Rosary of the Catholic Institute of West Africa in Port Harcourt, said there was... Read More

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I have no personal reason to support Sheriff- Wike

The Governor of River state and Chairman of the 2016 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention Planning Committee, Nyesom Wike has in the face of the controversy surrounding the ousting of the acting national chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff declared that the PDP cannot be allowed to die. Wike was one of the governors... Read More

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Ali Modu furious with PDP as he’s fired as party chairman

The Peoples Democratic Party has sacked its national chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, even as the scheduled national convention billed to hold today was cancelled. In place of Ali Modu Sheriff, Ahmed Makarfi, a former governor of Kaduna State was appointed as interim leader of the party even as a caretaker committee was instituted. A former... Read More

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PDP convention in Port Harcourt to be called off?

Despite confident declarations from Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention would hold, new reports filtering out suggest that the convention might be canceled. The convention was billed to hold today(Saturday) in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state. According to online media outlet, Naij, a source within the PDP told their... Read More

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PDP not shocked that APC chieftain’s son was arrested for murder, kidnapping

The Nigerian Army has reportedly arrested the son of Deputy Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers, Peter Odike on charges of murder and kidnapping. The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party reacted to the arrest by stating that it proves that the PDP had been right all along for blaming... Read More

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Governor Wike to borrow N10 billion to pay salaries

The Rivers State House of Assembly has given the state Governor, Nyeso Wike, the go-ahead to take a N10 billion loan from the Federal Government. The members of the House agreed to the governor’s request to apply for bailout funds from the Federal Government at a session yesterday. Rivers had previously refused to take the bail... Read More

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APC says Wike is collecting 10bn loan ‘to watch UCL final in Milan’

The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress has lamented that Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike was given approval by the House of Assembly to secure a loan of N10 billion from commercial banks for apparently no reason. The state House of Assembly, yesterday granted the governor’s request to source for the said loan... Read More

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President Buhari and Governor Wike in private talks- did they discuss Amaechi?

Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers and bitter rival of the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi had a short private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 16 at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock. According to Punch, Wike arrived the Presidential Villa around 2pm for the said meeting. Wike and Amaechi have... Read More

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Gesila Khan, alleged rigger of Wike’s election, taken to ‘unknown destination’ by EFCC

Gesila Khan, the former resident electoral commissioner for Rivers State, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, reports say. She served as Resident Electoral Commissioner for Rivers State during the 2015 general elections and was alleged to have rigged the polls in favour of the incumbent governor of the state, Nyesom Wike.... Read More

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Wike suspends Works Commissioner… days after discarding Amaechi’s monorail project

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has suspended his Commissioner for Works, Kevin Wachukwu. The Works Commissioner was suspended with immediate effect on Friday, April 1. Wike’s Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, disseminated news of the suspension. Wachukwu’s Special Adviser on Special Projects has been asked to take over the responsibility of supervising projects... Read More

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Opinion: How the Supreme Court endorsed violence as a legitimate tool in our elections

But then, what are the consequences of upholding the result of an election which the entire world saw was characterised by unprecedented violence, murders, beheadings, decapitation and incineration of human beings, even when the electoral law provides that such elections must be invalidated? Is it remotely possible that none of our eminent Justices of the... Read More

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Opinion: Samuel Okonta, Nigerian politics and the fate of NYSC members

Death is a painful experience, it is even more painful if the death of a loved one is an avoidable one. Your heart aches at thought of only having pictures and the lingering memory of a loved that once walked the surface of this planet. Last Saturday’s election in Rivers would sit in the shameful... Read More

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Why we can’t stop sending corp members for election duty – NYSC boss

In spite of the death of a corp members in the Rivers rerun election, the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) is not ready to sever ties with the Independent National Electoral Commission. Samuel Okonta, last weekend, fell victim to election violence, as he lost his life during the violence-ridden polls in Rivers state. The NYSC... Read More

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Opinion: From NYSC to RIP, the tragedy of dead corp members

“In this game of politics, we must understand that match officials, and spectators are not the opponents. We must not direct our anger towards the wrong people.” – Solomon Dalung speaking on the death of Okonta Dumebi Samuel. The need to re-create INEC, a body hitherto consumed in the shadow of Professor Maurice Iwu into... Read More

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‘Self-serving political opportunist’ | APC rips apart Nyesom Wike in new statement (READ)

The war of words between the Rivers state All Progressives Congress and the state governor, Nyesom Wike, is yet to end as the party has condemned the governor’s decision to set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry that will look into the killings and violence that marred the March 19th legislative rerun election in the... Read More

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‘We’re waiting for Buhari to declare state of emergency in Ekiti’ – Fayose

Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has dared President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Ekiti and Rivers state. Fayose uttered the boastful remarks on Monday, after the opening of the National Economic Council (NEC) retreat on the economy at the presidential villa, Abuja. “They have been insinuating that (state of emergency)... Read More

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