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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...”
Medical experts have identified effective primary health delivery as one way of checking material and Children mortality rate in the country.
Speaking at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Week of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) tagged, “Improving Primary Health Care Services in Rivers State,” they asserted that primary health care was the bedrock for better [...]
The Rivers State Government has banned the dumping of refuse in fronts of schools and other public buildings in the state.
Commissioner for Environment, Barrister Kingley Chinda stated this, weekend, in Port Harcourt, at the end of last month’s environmental sanitation exercise.
Barrister Chinda, who was represented by the permanent secretary of the ministry, Mr. R.N. Godwins, [...]
In order to effectively manage the proposed 10 per cent equity participation fund for oil bearing communities, the Oil Mineral Producing Area Landlord’s Association (OMPALA), has called on the federal government to establish Community Administration Councils (CACs).
The proposal was made by the Chairman, Board of Trustees of OMPALA, Bishop Udo Azogu in an address he [...]
The Rivers State Government has disclosed its intentions to build a befitting Secretariat for the State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari made this known to the NUJ State Executive in a meeting she held with them in her office last Wednesday.
The Hon. Commissioner also [...]
South-South participants at the ongoing nationwide Nigeria at 50 Essay Competition have described the initiative as “lofty and noble”.
Some of the students, who spoke to newsmen last Saturday at the Federal Government College, Port Harcourt, the venue for South-South, said the competition had been a source of inspiration to them.
They urged the Federal Government to [...]
A development economist and Niger Delta crusader, Dr. Godpower Wakama has said that realities on ground make Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, come 2011 inevitable and a necessity which all Nigerians, irrespective of their geo-political affinities and political differences should accept without debate.
In an address which he presented during a workshop on popular politics, Dr. Wakama [...]
A clergyman has disigreed with the federal government over the decision to xecute about 800 prison inmates on death row.
The federal government, in a bid to decongest the prisons, had ordered the state governments to ensure inmates condemned to death were executed.
Rev. Isaiah David the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Port Harcourt, who bared [...]
A political pressure group in Rivers State, Committee of Rivers Patriots (CORP), has appealed to both indigenes and non-indigenes of Rivers State to lend their voices in asking Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to accept to contest the 2011 governorship election in the state.
This was part of the resolutions reached by the group after its meeting [...]
A staff of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr Olabode by four unidentified armed men. The Tide gathered that Mr Omosegbon aged 38, was abducted by 10.23 pm along Acho Wobo Street, Akwaka in Rumuodamaya area of Rivers State. According to the Police Public Relations Officers Rivers [...]
Former Military Administrator of the old Rivers State, Major Gen. Anthony Ukpo (rtd) has called for public support to the ideals of Rotary Club to make the world better place for all.
Gen. Ukpo, who said this during the induction ceremony of Rotarian Georgiana Ngeri-Nwagha is the new president of Rotary club of Port Harcourt at [...]
