Tag: Rivers state

Rivers: Travelers stranded, as soldiers block road after IPOB clash

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Rivers soldiers

Several trucks, petroleum tankers, and vehicles are trapped around the Oyigbo axis of the Port Harcourt-Aba expressway in Rivers State, as security operatives block the Imo-Rivers border yesterday. This followed the killing of some soldiers by suspected members of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Abia State, who were enforcing the sit-at-home order in commemoration of the May 30th ‘Biafra Day.’ Following the long queues, hundreds of passengers were stranded, as movement to the neighbouring Abia State is restricted. According to a resident, who spoke to newsmen on…

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Rivers: Court declares 25 pro-Wike lawmakers’s seats vacant

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Rivers H'Assembly

The Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port-Harcourt, yesterday, has issued an interlocutory injunction barring the pro-Wike lawmakers led by factional Speaker, Martins Amaewhule, from further sitting and parading themselves as members of the State’s House of Assembly. The court, presided over by Justice Charles.N. Wali, gave the order in a suit filed by the pro-Governor Siminalayi Fubara House of Assembly, led by the Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo and two others, Sokari Goodboy and Orubienimigha Timothy. In court papers, the suit listed 25 lawmakers as 1st to 25th Defendants and the…

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Rivers: “We won’t allow politicians plunge State into crisis” – Ijaw group warns

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Ijaw group

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has vowed that it won’t allow the current political turbulence in the Rivers State between Governor Siminilayi Fubara and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, plunge the State into crisis. The council stated this in a communiqué issued yesterday, at the end of a one-day peace and security Summit convened by the IYC with leaders of various youth bodies from different ethnic nationalities in the Niger-Delta who sued for peace. It said the peace and security Summit, held on May 17,…

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Rivers: Fubara vows to probe ex-Gov. Wike

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Fubara to probe Wike

Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has vowed to set-up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate how the affairs of governance were conducted in the State before he assumed office. Fubara gave the hint at the swearing-in of the new Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dagogo Israel Iboroma, (SAN), at Government House, Port Harcourt, yesterday. The Governor said he was bringing the Attorney-General on board at a critical time when there were lots of legal matters that needed to be tackled, with bravery and courage. He said, “Let me say…

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‘Rivers political crisis may consume Nigeria’s democracy’ – Bode George warns Tinubu

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Bode George

Former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently intervene in the ongoing political crises in Rivers State to avert the breakdown of law and order in the State. George, who described the crisis in Rivers as a time-bomb waiting to explode, said nobody should sit on the fence and pretend as if everything was okay. He, therefore, also appealed to the party’s elders and stakeholders to intervene in the political crisis rocking Rivers to stop it from becoming…

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Court declares 25 Rivers Assembly seats vacant

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Rivers Court

The Rivers State High Court has declared 25 Rivers State House of Assembly seats vacant. The court also issued a temporary order stopping the Speaker of the State Assembly loyal to Wike, Martin Amaewhule, to stop parading themselves as Assembly members. The court, presided over by Justice Charles N. Wali, added that the status of their legislative seats would be determined by the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice. Justice Wali, who gave the order yesterday, in a case with suit number PHC/1512/CS/2024, also ordered that the 25…

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Rivers: LGA chairmen dare Fubara, vow to remain in office beyond tenure 

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Fubara

The Rivers State chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, (ALGON), has slammed the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, accusing him of tempering with funds meant for the 23 LGAs in the State in the last 12 months. The association also alleged that the governor withheld the LG funds for April, while one of the councils, Emuoha, has not received the funds due to it since March 2024. The body noted that the action of the Fubara-led State government has denied the local government chairmen of their functions in…

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Rivers: Fubara sets up committee to recover all State  properties ‘falsely’ grabbed by former Gov. Wike

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Fubara Wike

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has set up a committee to recover all State  properties allegedly grabbed  falsely by the former State governor, Nyesom Wike. Some of the properties identified for immediate recovery are: The old NDDC building on Aba road; The mall on GRA junction (under demolition); West African Glass Industry; Rivers State University Hostel K Campus; Rivers State High Rise aka PHC Towers; Nigeria Engineering Works, a.k.a NEW. Others are: ?Civil servants Lodge building @ Old GRA; Shoprite complex; The Hypercity land by NLNG roundabout (Estern Bypass) ,…

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Rivers Political Crisis: Gov. Fubara draws battle line, dares Wike 

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Fubara Wike

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has shifted gears, standing up to his former boss-turned-rival, Nyesom Wike, after enduring months of political attacks. In the course of last week, Fubara used two occasions to fire shots at the immediate-past governor of the State, now minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the State House of Assembly. Recall that Fubara recently warned Wike not to mistake his calmness for weakness, signaling a new assertiveness. Despite implementing a peace agreement brokered by President Tinubu, Fubara clarified that it wasn’t a sign of…

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Port-Harcourt Refinery misses another deadline to begin production

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Barely three weeks after Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd., (NNPCL), gave a two-week ultimatum, the Port-Harcourt Refinery, in Rivers State, is yet to commence production. Recall that on March 15, Kyari met the Senate ad hoc committee investigating various turn-around maintenance (TAM) projects of Nigerian refineries and assured that the Port-Harcourt Refinery would begin production in two weeks. He said, “In the next two weeks, production will start. We did mechanical completion of Port Harcourt; that was what we said…

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