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 Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Benin has promised to create 113,000 jobs in four years, if re-elected. Mr Kassim Afegbuan, the Director of Media and Publicity, Oshiomhole Campaign Organisation, said that Oshiohmole would ensure that “each Edo son and daughter earns a living at the end of each month,” if re-elected. According to [...]
Rivers State House of Assembly has directed Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited to sustain the zero fatality record maintained so far on the Egi gas eruption. The directive was contained in the interim report submitted to the Assembly by the Joint Committee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources on the disaster in four communities [...]
A pro-democracy group, Peoples Movement for a New Nigeria (PMNN), has said that sovereignty belongs to the people and as such they should get more involved in the nation’s affairs. At a recent meeting in Lagos, the movement’s convener, Alhaji Yahaya Ndu, said the group was set to impress on Nigerians the need to perform [...]
The Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Leyii Kwanee, said the House will support the state government to run a cost effective administration with the Riv Cloud Initiative. Hon. Kwanee, who represented the Speaker, Rt Hon. Otelemaba Amachree at the launching of Riv Cloud last Tuesday in Port Harcourt, told newsmen [...]
A bill for an Act to amend the Cabotage Act of 2003, Coastal and Inland Shipping (Cabotage), has scaled through the second reading at the House of Representatives. The bill seeks to expand jurisdiction to all off-shore operators in the Nigerian coastal and inland waters. Cabotage refers to sailing along a coast, navigation and trade [...]
Conncillors of Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State have passed a vote of confidence on the leader of the legislative Assembly, Hon. Ataisi C. Wellington as the best leader in the history of the Legislative Assembly in the area. The vote of confidence was passed, Thursday, at the hallowed chambers of the Legislative Assembly [...]
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has urged South-South governors to adopt investment strategies that would translate to economic growth and development. Oshiomhole made the call in Asaba on Thursday at the second South-South Summit organised by the region. He said that it was necessary because the level of poverty and unemployment was still high in [...]
Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba said last Thursday that the London Court had made its pronouncement on the James Ibori case and it had to be accepted as the evidence must have been properly evaluated “The court has pronounced, it has pronounced. It is a judicial process and the court evaluated all the evidence before it [...]
Former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Ike Chinwo, says the election of Dr Sam Sam Jaja will ensure unity amongst members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State and the South South geo-political zone. Chinwo, who represented Obio/Akpor between 2003 and 2001 in the lower chamber, described Dr Jaja as [...]
As part of the moves to check incessant disruption of academic programmes and in-fighting at the state premier University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt, the state government, has proposed an amendment to the principal law establishing the institution in 1980. Under the proposed Amendment Bill, the Vice Chancellor will now have a single [...]
