Tag: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
‘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 ...
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