Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has challenged members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) to always hold public office holders accountable to the people. Governor Wike gave the charge when the national leadership of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) paid him a courtesy visit at Government... Read more
Last week will go down as one of the most challenging weeks, if not the most challenging, Nigeria has faced in 2020. What started out weeks before as very well-organised peaceful protests by young Nigerians campaigning to #EndSARS, was supplanted by hoodlums engaging in wanton looting, arson and destruction... Read more
The Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Dr Tammy Wenike Danagogo, has expressed joy over the Supreme Court Verdict on Soku Oil wells, stating that the Apex court judgment will usher in more peace at the Soku Oilfields and it’s environs. The SSG’s reaction to the judgement was... Read more
The International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, Intersociety says a calculation error occurred in its statement of Sunday, 25th Oct 2020 where “mistakenly stated that “30,400 unprocessed citizens died in police custodies across the country since 2004 or in the past 16 years”. In a clarification... Read more
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Most European Union member states have continued to express their support for Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation. The BBC also reported on Wednesday that the WTO’s ambassadors have backed Okonjo-Iweala for the position. If the former managing director of... Read more
EX-Militants under the third phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme on Tuesday bemoaned the plight of beneficiaries whose training, empowerment and reintegration programmes have been suspended abruptly and threatened to go back to the creeks. The third phase Ex-agitators under the auspices of the United Amnesty Delegates frowned... Read more
Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr has called up Captain Ahmed Musa, defender William Ekong, midfield enforcer Oghenekaro Etebo and 21 others for next month’s 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying quick-fire double against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone. Defenders Kenneth Omeruo, Leon Balogun and Chidozie Awaziem, midfielder Alex... Read more
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has signed an executive order to reinforce the ban on the Indigenous Peoples Organization of Biafra (IPOB) and its activities in the State. The Governor maintained that while Rivers State remains the home to all tribes and ethnic nationalities, the State government is... Read more
By Ashley Quarcoo In the final frenzied days before the U.S. election, many voters are nervous about the risk of violence and whether the results will be considered legitimate. A diverse group of civil society organizations is restoring trust in the process. America is moving through the final... Read more
