The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, says his administration always sets funds aside for any project that it awards. He stated that this is the reason why there would be no abandoned project in the State. The Governor gave this explanation after inspecting the Junior Doctors’ Residential Quarters and the Real Madrid Football…
The latest survey on health of States in Nigeria is out, and Rivers State has joined the few States that have the highest rate of unemployment. Worried by this report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All…
Last week delivered drama aplenty in the country. There were very interesting and, occasionally, distressing news items. We had the appointment of a young and dishy-looking woman, Mrs Zainab Ahmad as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the almighty feud between Dr Ibe Kachiukwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, and Maikanti…
Ahead of May 29, an international media organization has applauded the development strides of the Rivers State governor, Barrister Nyeson Wike. A statement by Bizentol Integrity Media Limited, publishers of Strikee Magazine not only named Governor Wike as Pillar of Nigeria’s democracy but commended him for his commitment to the well-being of the people of…
By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze Preamble It was Dr Dakuku Adol Peterside, Director-General of NIMASA, former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on (Downstream) Petroleum and 2015 All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State who stated in an article titled ‘How to tackle insecurity in Nigeria’: “Security, law and order are the major preoccupation of…
One of the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State and governorship candidate in the 2015 elections, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has accused the state governor, Nyesom Wike of causing so much embarrassment to the collective interest and aspirations of Rivers people. Peterside, who spoke against the background of some policemen sacked by the…
The refusal of Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, to cooperate with the Panel set up by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to investigate the violence that marred the December 10 legislative rerun elections in the State has been described as a bad omen. “This is a direct affront to Federal powers and should…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been accused by the Department of State Services, DSS, of planning to disrupt machinery of governance in strategic Federal Government Agencies. This, according to the country’s secret police, is to be done by provoking a violent breach of peace in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja during the festive…
As the December 10 rerun elections in Rivers State approach, the state chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, says it has received credible intelligence that the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have made several National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, uniforms complete with APC tags which PDP thugs will…
With the trouncing of Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in the governorship election in Ondo State Saturday, the Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, is asking the governor of Rivers State to immediately retrieve and return the sum of N2bn of Rivers money he allegedly donated to the Ondo State branch of the PDP.…