Rivers state

  • Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on Monday convened an emergency meeting with members of the State Security Council. The meeting, according to sources, was unconnected with the recent crisis rocking the political space in the state. The crisis had resulted in an explosion at the Rivers State House of Assembly complex, and subsequent suspension of…

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  • Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Monday downplayed any impeachment move against him. Fubara insisted that he has committed no offence to warrant being impeached by the Rivers State House of Assembly. He spoke while addressing his supporters at the Assembly Complex in Port Harcourt. The governor assured the people of the state of…

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  • The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, has said the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, is behind the plot to impeach Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State. Clark claimed that Wike wants Fubara impeached and replaced with the Speaker of the House of Assembly. The Rivers…

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  • The president-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, rejected a request made by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for a refund for construction of some federal roads in the state.  Tinubu spoke while inaugurating the Rumuokwuta-Rumuola Flyover, in Obio/Akpor Council of the state. While noting how the state had to amend its procurement law to enable it source funds…

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  • NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF LABOUR PARTY, COMRADE JULIUS ABURE, DISSOLVES THE LABOUR PARTY STATE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF RIVERS STATE Comrade Julius Abure has DISSOLVED the Labour Party State Executive Council of Rivers State with immediate effect, for gross anti-party activities and corruption in the management of Labour Party funds. The National Chairman believes that it’s in…

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  • A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered the sealing off of 4 brothels along Azikiwe Street, Mile 2 Diobu in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State. The court gave the order following a suit filed by the Federal Government with Cool Breeze Hotel and Royale Hotel as defendants The National…

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  • The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has faulted the claims by the state governor, Nyesom Wike, that the former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi did not attract any project as minister. The APC also dismissed allegations that the former governor did not show any love or interest for the welfare of the late elder…

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  • Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has described the former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi as a “total failure”. The governor was speaking at the commissioning of senator John Azuta Mbata House in Port Harcourt on Monday. Governor Wike challenged the former minister to show the Rivers people what he did for them when he was…

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