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Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the Church to partner with Governments in Africa to build the political structures that would make for a better continent. President Jonathan made the call yesterday in an address presented at the 6th Convocation of the Catholic Institute of West Africa (C1WA) in Port Harcourt. The President, who was [...]
The Rivers State Government has commenced full deliberations on draft proposals for the 2011 State Budget with detailed Ministry-by-Ministry presentation by Commissioners. The Commissioner for Budget, Mr Charles Levi Gogo, who disclosed this Wednesday night while briefing Government House correspondents on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting in Port Harcourt, said the budget [...]
The Rivers State House of Assembly Wednesday, suspended from office the chairman of Andoni Local Government Area, Mrs Emelia Gilbert Nte on allegation of security breach in the area and directed the vice chairman of the council to takeover the governance of the local government council pending conclusion of investigation by the House. Following the [...]
The National Agency For Prohibition of Traffic In Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) says it has arrested 425 human traffickers in the last five years within the South-South zone of the country. The zonal head of NAPTIP, Mr Peter Simon Essien, disclosed this on Wednesday in a paper on human trafficking and child labour [...]
Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has signed the bill on the Management of Primary -healthcare Board recently passed by the State House of Assembly into law. Speaking during a brief ceremony at the Executive Council Chambers of Government House, Port Harcourt, Governor Amaechi said the law would ensure the setting up of [...]
Piqued by barrels of criticisms against operations in the Niger Delta, the Joint Military Taskforce, JTF, says it will not be provoked to declare war in the oil and gas rich region. Making this known in a statement released yesterday, the head of media operation, Lt. Col. Timothy Antigha said it was disheartening to listen [...]
One of the host landlord communities at the Residential Area (RA) of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) in Port Harcourt, Rumuibekwe, has come out to say that they have no problem with the multinational oil company and that if for any reason there is a conflict, it could be resolved amicably. The community [...]
As part of moves to cope with the high level of pupils enrolment in primary schools in the Diobu axis of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Government says it’ will construct three additional model primary schools at the premises of the St. Andrew’s State School, Diobu. The State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who [...]
The Rivers State Government says that its Integrated Malaria Elimination Campaign programme would commence in the 23 local government areas of the state in December. Under the scheme, the Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets would be distributed to indigenes free. Experts from the Republic of Cuba have established a bio-larvicide factory from where chemicals would be [...]
The remains of late Chief Jim Duudee Kpobu of Buan community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, who died at the age of 154 years, will be buried at his home town Buan tomorrow. A statement from the family, signed by Sunday Kpobu and Sunday Barile, disclosed that the deceased who passed on [...]
