Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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...”
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) last Wednesday in Abuja shared the sum of N721.505 billion for the month of April. The Minister of State for Finance, Dr Yerima Ngama, made this known when he briefed newsmen on the outcome of the FAAC meeting. “The distributable statutory revenue for the month is N531.332 billion,;there is [...]
Nigeria currently ranks second among countries with children born with HIV/AIDS globally. The Director General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA),Prof John Idoko revealed this yesterday, during a three-day South-South zonal meeting of state agencies for the control of AIDS (SACA) and the Local Action Committee on AIDS (LACAs) in Port Harcourt. Prof [...]
A Federal High Court in Lagos will on Friday deliver judgment in a case of production of a killer teething syrup — My Pikin – preferred against the Barewa Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. Justice Okechukwu Okeke fixed the date on Thursday. He shifted the judgment date to enable him to conclude writing of the verdict. Okeke [...]
The Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba last Tuesday donated N1.5 million for the Heart Transplant of Mr Jude Okwe, Cross River Correspondent of Thisday Newspaper. Okwe was recently diagnosed as having an enlarged heart which requires surgery in an Indian Hospital at the cost of N9 million. Making the donation, Ndoma-Egba said, he was [...]
The PDP Caucus in the Senate, yesterday raised two committees to mediate in the crisis within the party in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States. Leader of the Senate, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, said this in Abuja while addressing National Assembly correspondents at the end of a meeting of the caucus. He said that the meeting focused [...]
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari has described social networking as a critical factor in the developmental process. Mrs Semenitari, who said this during the celebration of the World Communication Day 2013, Monday in Port Harcourt, also said that governments the world over believed that social networks are critical as [...]
The call for the removal of the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, rather than abet has climbed a new height. Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Dan Amachree, has continued with his earlier calls that the police commissioner be removed in view of his perceived partiality [...]
The chairman, House Committee on Justice, Rep Ali Ahmed (PDP Kwara) has directed the Nigeria Civic Aviation Authority (NCAA) to avail the committee a comprehensive title documents of all private jets and their owners in the country, within 48 hours. Ali gave the directive yesterday in Abuja at an investigative hearing on the grounding of [...]
The Rivers State Government, has pledged to collaborate with media-based organizations to enthrone good governance in all sectors of the state. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications, Mrs Jokotade Adamu said this Tuesday in Port Harcourt while delivering open the 2013 World Press Freedom Day celebration of the Rivers State Council of Nigeria [...]
Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, says he identifies with the women for taking the crisis affecting the state to God for intervention. Governor Amaechi said this yesterday while addressing a mammoth crowd of women who thronged Government House gate, Port Harcourt, to protest the way the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu [...]
