The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has predicted that immediate past Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, is unlikely to get up to 10 percent of the votes to be cast during the 2015 governorship election in the state, not minding the pledges and support by Dame Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s…
**Picks Labour Party’s Guber Ticket Following the decision of the leaders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to give their support to former Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike for the party’s slot for the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State, Tonye Princewill has decided to seek his ambition with the Labour Party. Princewill, in a…
The 2014 edition of the annual carnival in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, popularly called Carniriv has started on a high note and the government has promised to make visitors to the beautiful city enjoy their stay during the period. Carniriv is a tourism and cultural export project of the Rivers State Government, which has always…
Members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Rivers State staged a protest on Friday morning, demanding for the payment of their allowances. The aggrieved Corpers, at the orientation camp in Nonwa Gbam Tai area of the state, claimed the government has refused to pay them their allowances. The protesting Corps members barricaded the…
It has been revealed that more than 500,000 people are expected to grace the 2014 edition of the annual Port Harcourt Carnival in Rivers State. This revelation was made by the Director General of the Rivers State Tourism Development Agency, Sam Dede, a veteran Nigerian actor. Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt, Dede noted that…
Oil and gas big boy, Prince Tonye Princewill, has expressed doubts in the highly publicised fight between Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Nyesom Wike. It is no news that Amaechi and his former Chief of Staff, Wike, who later became a Minister, have been at loggerheads. The two former friends have traded words…
Some students sent to the United Kingdom by the Rivers State government, under the aegis of the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency, RSSDA, to study have made an appeal to the state governor, Rotimi Ameachi, to alleviate their pains. The student, in an SOS, decried the treatment being meted out on them by authorities of…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has reacted with outrage to the news of the withdrawal of the security details of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, in the wake of his defection to the party from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Rivers APC in a statement signed by…
Report just reaching us reveals that the younger sister of Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been kidnapped. The lady, Osio Agama, was seized by some unknown gunmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Details of the abduction is still sketchy and Aproko247 cannot confirm yet if the kidnappers have established a contact with family of…
Dame Patience Jonathan has resigned her appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education over an alleged rift with the state governor, Seriake Dickson. Mrs Jonathan is the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan and was one of the 17 Permanent Secretaries appointed in 2012 by Dickson. Her appointment was then greeted with…