By Chiwete Nwaka Eke Reading through a disjointed piece written by one Ibim Amieyeofori, a roustabout working with Rivers Commissioner for Information, one would readily understand why the state government information machinery lacks fitness, tact, guile and grace. The watery attempt at having something tangible to say in response to words of wisdom from a…
The Secretary to Rivers State Government, Dr. Tammy Danagogo says Governor Nyesom Wike will not abandon any project in fulfilment of the NEW Rivers Vision development blueprint for the state. The SSG anchored his submission on the experience, competence and courage of Governor Wike in implementing the principles of good governance and determination to leave…
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has threatened to re-impose the suspended COVID-19 lockdown measures if residents fail to adhere to the existing COVID-19 protocols. The governor who gave this warning in a broadcast on Monday said daily figures released from the NCDC show that both the transmission and death rates in the last…
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has signed into law bills on Value Added Tax (VAT) collection, Open Grazing Prohibition in Rivers State. He maintained that the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt had sufficiently addressed the illegality perpetrated by the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) on behalf of the Federal Government in…
Ahead of the general election in 2023, former Imo State Governor and a serving APC senator, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has called for a new political alliance between good leaders of like minds in the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) and the lead opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that both parties have…
The latest political news in Nigeria is the defection of the Ebonyi state Governor, Dave Umahi, on Tuesday to the All Progressives Congress (APC), citing injustice meted on the South East by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the reason behind his action. But the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has faulted the reason given…
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says the plan by the Wike administration to limit available employment opportunities in Government establishments to persons within the age bracket of 25 to 35 years smacks of discrimination. The Spokesman for the APC, Hon. Ogbonna Nwuke said in reaction to a government plan to…
Special Assistant to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Special Projects, Cyril Dum Wite, has been arrested by security operatives in the state. According to reports, Wite was apprehended alongside four hoodlums believed to have been employed to disrupt the supplementary election near the INEC office in Bori. In the visuals posted on Facebook,…