Rivers
RSG Clears Contractors’ Debt – Ofuru
In keeping with the promise of raising the standard of education in the State to an enviable height, the Rivers State Government has cleared all the outstanding debts owed contractors handling one hundred school building projects across the State.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. Richard Ofuru who stated this while briefing newsmen in his office in Port Harcourt, recently said thirty of those schools are ready for commissioning and would be delivered before December this year.
Mr. Ofuru also said it was the desire of government to ensure that all the school premises operate in a neat environment by maintaining the clean and green policy, stressing that school heads should do everything possible to keep to the policy.
He disclosed that the biddings for the furnishing of the school5 by contractors would soon be made known in no distant future and called on parents and stakeholders in the education sector to be patient.
The Permanent Secretary, while emphasizing the importance of education in the society, commended Governor Amaechi and the Commissioner of Education, Barrister Alice Lawrence-Nemi for restoring education sector to its past glory and called for the support of all to achieve set goals in the system.
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Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
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