…Accuse SETRACO of Blackmail and Incompetence Ekpeye communities in Rivers State have decried the insensitivity of the Federal and State Governments over their plight due to the lingering impact of the devastating flood which ravaged the area in 2020. Speaking on the travails of the affected communities, a... Read more
NGO Urges Journalists To Embed Data In Environmental Reporting
News August 11, 2021
A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI) on Wednesday urged journalists in the Niger Delta to embrace the use of data in reporting the environmental issues of oil pollution in the region. Mr Ikechukwu Ahaka, Programme Officer , MAJI made the call while speaking... Read more
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared that it is the Rivers State Government and not the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), that should collect Value Added Tax (VAT) and Personal Income Tax (PIT) in the State. Justice Stephen Pam, also issued an order of perpetual injunction restraining the FIRS and... Read more
. Appreciates Iyaye, Green, Sirawoo The General Manager of Rivers United football club, Dr Okey Kpalukwu has on behalf of team commended the Executive Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for his unflinching support to the team. Kpalukwu stated this at an event to mark the end... Read more
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the rejection of electronic transmission of election results by All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the National Assembly, is tantamount to a coup against Nigerians desirous of a free, fair and credible election. The governor noted that President Muhammad Buhari’s failure... Read more
Rivers United Football Club has officially approached the League Management Company (LMC) to protest the use of an ineligible player in the club’s Match Day 34 encounter with Jigawa Golden Stars in Kaduna. The State’s Commissioner for Sports, Boma Iyaye, made this known to Sports Writers in a statement by... Read more
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP caucus of the House of Representatives Tuesday called for the prosecution of the head of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC for allegedly lying to the country on the possibility of electronic transmission of election results. The Leader of the Caucus, Rep. Kingsley Chinda, made... Read more
The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has expressed support for the total ban placed on open grazing by Southern governors, saying it must be implemented latest by September 1. The group also blasted some Northern leaders for disapproving the ban on open grazing. “Afenifere is in full support of the... Read more
By Prof. Abdulsamad Umar Jibia On Thursday June 24, 2021 I stumbled on a viral video from Zamfara state. In the four minutes clip, a notorious bandits’ kingpin could be seen boastfully confessing in front of senior security officials of the atrocities he committed against the Nigerian state... Read more
Suspected bandits have killed 12 people at Maikujera in Rabah local government area of Sokoto state. Confirming the attack, the spokesman of the Sokoto Police Command, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, said the incident happened around 4:30pm on Thursday. According to him, 12 people were killed by the assailants. He, however,... Read more
