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Just In: Traders count losses as midnight fire guts Rivers timber market

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Aminu Imam

Shop owners and traders at the Timber Market, in the Marine Base axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, woke up to see their merchandise all in flames following a midnight fire. It was learnt that the fire started from the casket section of the market about midnight breaking into Thursday, even as those affected said no firefighter has been seen at the sight as of the time of filing this report. A source who visited the scene of the inferno about 7.30a.m. today observed that the fire was still seen…

Covid-19: Rivers govt. directs schools to re-open today

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Aminu Imam

� As Lagos announces new resumption date for workers The Rivers State government has directed private and public schools in the State to re-open today, Monday. This was announced by the Permanent Secretary at the State’s Ministry of Education, Chidi Adiele, in a statement issued yesterday. According to Adiele, all schools in Rivers State are to resume academic activities on January 4, for the completion of the first-term academic session. He explained that the directive was issued with the approval of the state governor, Nyesom Wike, in line with the…

Six PDP chieftains defect to APC ahead of 2023

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been hit with defection again, as six of its chieftains in Oyibo local government area of Rivers State joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). The new defectors, according to reports, include Adolphus Nweke, Onyema Ihenna, Ibekwe Okere, among others. It was gathered that the defectors were received on Wednesday by the party leader in Oyibo, Gift Okere, and Caretaker Committee chairman, Chamberlain Okorie. Claiming that the PDP has crashed in the area following the defection of key executives to the APC, he urged the…

APC HQ nullifies Amaechi�s suspension

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 Aminu Imam

Warns those in charge The Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, on Wednesday, voided the purported suspension of the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi and some members of the party in Rivers State. The Igo Aguma-led faction of the Rivers State chapter of the party had announced the suspension of the minister, Sen. Andrew Uchendu and the former APC National Deputy Secretary, Victor Giadom, among others, over alleged anti-party activities. However, the APC National Secretariat, in a letter signed by the Head, Legal Services of the APC,…

2023: APC vows to sack PDP in Rivers

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to sack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State at the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The State�s Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Isaac Abbot-Ogbobula, revealed this at the weekend in Port Harcourt while inaugurating the APC caretaker committees in the 23 local government areas of the state. Abbot-Ogbobula said he was inaugurated as the State�s caretaker committee chairman by the National Caretaker Committee following the dissolution of all the structures of APC by the party�s National Executive Council. Describing the development…

�Violence now means of livelihood for northern children� – ACF

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Aminu Imam

One of the most prominent groups in northern Nigeria, Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has lamented the increasing rate of violence in the region. The Forum�s chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said this when he led a delegation to Maiduguri, to meet the Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, according to a statement issued yesterday. The statement, which was titled: “Arewa Consultative Forum visits Zulum, says security situation depressing�, noted that the ACF delegation was in Borno on Sunday to empathise over Boko Haram�s serial killings, particularly the most recent, which was…

My govt�ll not undermine interest of any ethnic group” – Wike to Northern Elders

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Aminu Imam

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has given assurance that he will continue to conduct the affairs of government in a manner that will not undermine the interest of any ethnic group resident in the State. The governor gave the assurance when he played host to leaders of Northern Elders Forum (NEF), led by its Chairman, Prof. Ango-Abdullahi, in Port Harcourt yesterday.� The Northern leaders were there to meet with their kith and kin in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest that was hijacked by the proscribed Indigenous People Organisation of…

Buhari must listen to the people, or set Nigeria �on fire�, warns Wike

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Aminu Imam

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari has an opportunity to address the demands of the people or put the country �on fire�.� His comment comes two days after the federal government met with leaders of the South-South region. At the meeting, the South-South leaders demanded the restructuring of Nigeria, in line with the principle of true federalism. In the interview, Wike touched on other issues, including the over-politicisation of governance in the South-South region and why Nigeria should implement state policing structures. In response to a…

Wike signs Executive Order proscribing IPOB in Rivers

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Aminu Imam

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has signed an executive order to reinforce the ban on the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and its activities in the State. Wike, who made this known in a statement issued by his Special Assistant (Media), Kelvin Ebiri, stated that the governor, in a broadcast on Wednesday night in Port Harcourt, maintained that Rivers State remains the home to all tribes and ethnic nationalities. He said the government acknowledges and appreciates the enormous contributions from non-indigenes to the political, social and economic development of…

Gunmen kill, cart away bodies in Rivers community

August 8, 2020March 27, 2024 Ishaku Yohanna

Residents in Bunu are still pondering in fear over gunmen who stormed the community in Tai Local Government Area, Rivers state, killing yet unspecified number of persons and carting away their bodies to unknown destination. Youth Leader in Bunu, Justin Wabah, narrated that, �Around 2am Saturday, there were heavy gunshots in our community. Opposite Bunu-Taagu Road by the Songhai, we discovered thick pool of blood on the road side where a motorcycle was burnt. �The volume of blood suggested some persons may have been killed and the corpses taken away.…