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Nigeria
Strike: Wike resolves dispute between Area Councils and NUT, NULGE
Abuja, Jan. 24, 2024 (NAN) The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike, has resolved the protracted disputes between the six Area Councils and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT). Wike also disclosed that the dispute between the councils and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) was equally resolved. The minister made the disclosure during…
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Politics
Rivers Assembly Demands Prompt Presentation of 2024 Budget
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, January 12, 2024: The Rivers State House of Assembly has formally requested Governor Siminalayi Fubara to present the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and the 2024 appropriation bill for consideration. In a letter dated January 9 and addressed to Governor Fubara, the lawmakers expressed concern that the 2024 appropriation bill is yet to be laid before the House. The…
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News
Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, Holds Crucial Meeting with President Bola Tinubu
Abuja, January 13, 2024 (Quick News Africa) – Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State engaged in a significant meeting with President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The governor’s arrival at the Presidential Villa was marked at approximately 5:35 p.m., and he proceeded to President Tinubu’s office for the meeting. This meeting follows Governor Fubara’s recent…
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Crime
Police in Rivers State Arrest 10 Suspected Kidnappers in Anti-Crime Raid
The Rivers State Police Command has reported the successful arrest of 10 suspected kidnappers during a targeted operation in Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state on Saturday. The operation, led by the state Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, aimed to comb bushes and dismantle a suspected kidnappers’ camp situated behind the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Igwuruta, on the…
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Bayelsa Governor Urges Peaceful Measures for Development in Rivers State
Sampou, Bayelsa State – Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has urged his Rivers State counterpart, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, to take decisive measures aimed at restoring peace in Rivers State for the purpose of fostering rapid development. Governor Diri offered this counsel during a meeting on Thursday, held at his country home in Sampou, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, where Governor…
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Politics
PDP insists on declaring 26 defected Rivers lawmakers’ seats vacant
Abuja, Dec. 28, 2023 ((NAN) The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday insisted that the 26 Rivers House of Assembly lawmakers who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) were no longer members of the state legislature. PDP National Legal Adviser, Adeyemi Ajibade, SAN, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shortly after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a…
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Election
2023 Elections: Wike did not work against Peter Obi – Umahi
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state, has dismissed claims that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State worked against the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi in the February 25th, 2023 elections. Umahi stated this at the commissioning of the remodeled Community Secondary school, in Obio-Akpor local government area on Monday. There have been speculations that Wike allegedly worked against Obi…
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Election
Fubara’s victory reaffirmation of Rivers as PDP stronghold – Wike
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers described the victory of the Governor-elect, Siminalayi Fubara, as a reaffirmation of the state as one of the premier strongholds of the party. Wike said this in a statement issued by Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr Kelvin Ebiri, on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
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Election
Why Wike is acting like a bull in China shop — Atiku
The Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has said Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, was now acting like a bull in a China Shop because he is sliding into political oblivion. Atiku who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, in Abuja, yesterday, said it was sad that Wike succeeded in deceiving four of his…
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Election
“I did not support Obi because nobody discussed Igbo presidency with me” – Wike
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers says he did not support the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi overtly at the Feb. 25 election because nobody discussed Igbo presidency with him.. Publicity Secretary of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr Alex Ogbonnia stated on Friday in Enugu that Wike made the declaration at a meeting the socio-political group had…
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Featured
Wike owes Rivers pensioners 15 months pensions —NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers State owes pensioners in the state no less than 15 months unpaid pensions. Representative of Joe Ajaero, President of NLC, Uche Ekwe, in Birnin Kebbi, disclosed this during the Kebbi State NLC delegates’ conference yesterday in Birnin Kebbi . Ekwe lamented that despite the noise Governor Wike has been…
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Election
Wike instrumental to Tinubu’s victory in Rivers — APC
PORT HARCOURT: The Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, was instrumental to the victory of its candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Rivers State. The PCC in Port Harcourt, today, said without the efforts of the governor that their Candidate would not have secured up to the…
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Featured
Wike joins Makinde to inaugurate, flags off projects in Ibadan
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers, will on Friday join his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, to inaugurate the completed Ibadan Airport Road project and the Aviation Fuel Tank Depot within the Airport. Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun, the State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, said in a statement on Thursday in Ibadan that other project to be flagged off included the…
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Featured
Gov. Wike donates N70million to families of three slain police officers
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has donated the sum of N70 million to families of the three slain police officers and one injured Officer at the Rumuokoro flyover bridge in Port Harcourt. Wike on Tuesday presented the cheque of N20 million to each widow of the three slain officers and N10 million to the injured officer who is still on…
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Law
VAT: Appeal Court restrains Lagos, Rivers from collections
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has halted the Rivers State government from collecting Value Added Taxes VAT until all legal disputes relating to the matter are resolved. The court ordered that the judgment of the High Court from which the state drew authorities to collect the tax be implemented. Justice Haruna Simon Tsanami who issued the order in…
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Politics
Wike slams plans by Nigerian govt to checkmate social media
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has criticised plans by the Federal government to regulate social media. According to Wike, this is a ploy to suppress the rights of the citizens to criticise the All Progressives Congress (APC) government. The Governor made this disclosure on Friday during the inauguration of nine reconstructed streets in Old Government Residential Area of Port Harcourt.…
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News
Wike flags off 17.2 km Saakpenwa-Bori-Kono road
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has told the communities of the Saakpenwa-Bori-Kono Road, phase two, not to use irrelevant cultural symbols to demand compensation and frustrate the completion of the project in 14 months. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony for the construction of the 17.2 kilometres long and 22.3 metres wide dual carriageway yesterday, Governor Wike said his administration was…
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