Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has taken a critical look at the ongoing cleanup of Ogoniland and declared that the Federal Government has not been sincere in the exercise. The governor said that the government at the centre was being deceptive and playing politics with the Ogoni milieu remediation programme […]
By Amaka Agbu The people of Bile Community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State are now bemoaning their economic downturn following incessant attacks by sea pirates on their Waterways. Stakeholders in the Bile Community who spoke to journalists on the incident, said that sea pirates terrorising the Bile-Port Harcourt waterways were becoming so […]
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has announced the ban of #EndSARS protests against police brutality set to be held in the state. In a statement put out on Monday night by the Rivers State Information Commissioner, Paulinus Nsirim, Wike gave a directive that his government was prohibiting all proposed protests against police brutality throughout the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to sanction lecturers in Rivers State-owned universities if they resume lectures, Daily Times Nigeria has learnt. READ ALSO: ASUU strike still ongoing till FG intervenes – Ogunyemi According to reports, the ASUU National President, Abiodun Ogunyemi, stated this while reacting to the directive of the Rivers […]
The Rivers State Government has approved the reopening of universities, other tertiary institutions, as well as secondary and vocational schools in the state, with effect from Monday, October 5, 2020. READ ALSO: NLC suspends protest in Rivers State Daily Times Nigeria gathered that the decision was made at the end of an emergency State Executive […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has reacted to the unemployment rate by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). READ ALSO: After rumours about health, North Korea state media report Kim Jong Un appearance The governor claimed the statistic is fake and political. Wike said on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has redeemed his pledge of ₦30 million being a bounty placed on the arrest of a notorious criminal and kidnapper, Honesty Digbara, popularly known as Bobisky. READ ALSO: Police kill notorious Rivers criminal Bobisky Daily Times Nigeria stated that the State Commissioner for Police, Joseph Mukan, disclosed this to journalists […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its planned protest in Rivers State after it reached an agreement with the state government. Recall Daily Times Nigeria reports that the congress had on Monday vowed to go ahead with its protest scheduled to take place today in the state. READ ALSO: NLC, aviation unions to shut P/H […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has that contractors who fail to abide by contractual agreements in handling projects in the state would be sanctioned. The governor said it was unacceptable for contractors, particularly those who have received full payment before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to use it as an excuse not to […]
The Rivers State Government has directed all staff of Government House, Port Harcourt, to go for a mandatory COVID-19 test to check the spread of the pandemic in the state. A statement on Monday in Port Harcourt by Mr Paulinus Nsirim, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, explained that the directive was made by […]
The Rivers State Government has approved COVID-19 guidelines for marriages and weddings with N10million fine to be paid by violators. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, said the guidelines were approved by the state Executive Council in a meeting presided over by the state Governor, Nyesom Wike. He said prospective couples would […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out the suit filed by Mr. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama stopping Governor Godwin Obaseki from participating in today’s PDP governorship primary in Edo State. A counsel to the plaintiff, D. C. Denwigwe (SAN), had in an oral application during resumption of the hearing on Wednesday, […]
The Rivers State Ministry of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, on Wednesday, in Port Harcourt rolled out hotlines for immediate response to victims of Sexual abuse and other forms of violence. According to Mrs. Inime Aguma, the State Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, the hotlines are “in response to increased and alarming statistics of sexual […]
As events continue to unfold in the build up to the September 19 Edo state governorship election, a call has gone to the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike and other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in the South – South region to rally round the embattled Edo governor, Godwin Obaseki. Wike was particularly enjoined to […]
A female National Youth Service Corps Member’s life has reportedly slumped and died in Rivers State. The entire 2019 Batch C, Stream 2, Corp members in Rivers State, have been thrown into deep mourning after one of their own, Atiye Florence Aduke, lost her life on Saturday, May 30th, 2020. Nigerian student designs hybrid fuel-less […]
The chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr Odiari Princewill, has passed on. Sources within the local government area say that the ex-chairman died from a suspected coronavirus on Wednesday night. The state chapter of the Association of Local Government Of Nigeria (ALGON) has confirmed the news. The ex-chair was reportedly buried […]
The Rivers State Government says its attention has been drawn to a recent petition, signed by one Mr. Needam Promise Gogorobari, Owner of the Prodest Hotel and dated 24th May 2020. According to a communique by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Paulinus Nsirim, the petition was to the effect that a certain […]
The embattled manager of the demolished Prudent Hotel, Alode-Eleme, near Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Dr. Bariledum Azoroh, has rejected the result of his coronavirus test presented to him on Sunday which was said to have come out positive. Recall that the manager was found guilty by a court for flouting Governor Wike’s COVID-19 Executive Order […]
Senator Magnus Ngei Abe has said that there is no situation requiring the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers state as alleged by Governor Nyeson Wike. He spoke Wednesday night on Channels Television, countering claims by the governor that he had uncovered plots by some politicians in Abuja to cause the federal government […]
Leading Nigerian agribusiness company, Notore Chemical Industries Plc, has cushioned the socio-economic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Rivers State, with the donation of truckloads of food items and relief materials to its host communities in the state and the Rivers State Government. The Group Managing Director of Notore Chemical Industries Plc, Mr Onajite […]