Author: Emmanuel Obe

Residents of Oyigbo in Rivers State have lamented the bad state of internal roads in the city as the rains set in and flash floods worsen movement of people and vehicles. “We are trapped” said Victor Okpute, who runs Oyigbo TV, an online Television outfit dedicated to reporting life in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. Okpute said the kind of suffering that residents of the city have been exposed to “can’t be found anywhere in the universe,” adding, “Even in Animal Farm you Can’t Read the Nightmare Situation people are going through in Oyigbo LGA.” He said he…

The people of Polobubo (Tsekelewu) community in Egbema Kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, have raised alarm over the continued abandonment of their Cottage Hospital. They said lack of a hospital in the community has already caused the death of hundreds of people that needed urgent medical attention. Polobubo is home to several major oil operations, including Chevron Nigeria Limited’s Opuekeba and Olero Fields, the NPDC/Elcrest Joint Venture’s Opuama Flow Station (OML 40), and marginal field operators such as Sahara Energy and Conoil Nigeria Limited. Constructed at a cost of ₦596 million through a partnership between Chevron…

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has concluded the distribution of laptops to final year beneficiaries of its scholarship scheme aimed at enhancing their academic research in universities across Nigeria. The agency presented a total of 663 laptops to the beneficiaries in the 26 partnering and 72 non-partnering universities at the end of the exercise, which lasted between April and May 2025. The PAP also carried out physical verification and orientation programme for the newly deployed 3,171 beneficiaries in the resumption list for the 2024/2025 academic session. Various teams coordinated by the PAP’s Head of Education, Dr Charles Ariye, visited the…

Eleme Local Government Council Administrator, Dr Gloria Obo Dibiah has lamented the state of public primary and junior secondary schools in the area. According to a press statement issued by Felix Ogbuji, the Press Secretary to the administrator, Dibiah vowed to prioritize the rehabilitation of all the primary and junior secondary schools in the area. The administrator who visited all the primary and junior secondary schools in the local government area to make an on-the-spot assessment of the state of the schools said most of the schools were worse off now than they were in the 1970s when she was…

The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) has conducted an acceptance test on the huge power transformers it ordered from China for the Ogoni Power project it is executing. The test team was led by the The Project Coordinator (PC), Prof. Nenibarini Zabbey, which visited JSB Zhejiang Jiangshan Transformer Co., Ltd. in Jiangshan, China, for the Factory Acceptance Test of transformers. The technical team comprised HYPREP’s technical team, representatives of the Ogoni Power contractor, Energovod Engineering Ltd., and the project supervision consultant, Oska-Jo and Partners Ltd. The equipment inspected included four 60 MVA Power Transformers and six 300 KVA earthing transformers…

A total of 4,379 graduands were last Saturday conferred with degrees of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Port Harcourt. Of this number, 2,887 were undergraduate degrees while 1,492 were postgraduate degrees. The Visitor of the university, who is also the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok Ibas (Rtd.) said at the convocation that educational development was a cardinal pillar of his administration. Ibas, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Ibibia Lucky Worika, said institutions of higher learning must rise above mediocrity. “A thriving university culture is one that not only teaches but…

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (Rtd.), has allegedly given directives to permanent secretaries and senior civil servants in the state from having any communication with former political appointees of the suspended governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara. A report published on Sunday by The Southern Examiner said the directive was communicated through the Acting Head of Service to permanent secretaries and other top government officials. The directive had made it difficult for Fubara’s former appointees and aides to seek and obtain needed information from the government as they were now avoided like a plague. The action…

The Rivers State Government, under the leadership of Sole Administrator Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), has embarked on a series of critical town hall meetings across various Local Government Areas (LGAs), reaffirming its unwavering commitment to peace, security, and sustainable development. These engagements, spearheaded by the Commissioner of Police, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, aim to foster collaboration between the government, security agencies, and local communities to address pressing challenges. ONELGA: Peace, Non-Negotiable For Development The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd.) has charged residents of Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) to embrace peace as the bedrock of…

The Administrator of Rivers State, Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd.) has approved the appointment of 11 new permanent secretaries.A press statement issued on Tuesday by the Acting Head of Service, Dr. Inyingi Brown, listed the new appointees as follows: Imaonyani Roselin Ephraim-George, Dr. Mina T. Ikuru, Dabite Sokari George, Soibitein Duke Harry, Lauretta Davies Dimkpa and Uche R. Ideozu.Others are Chimenum Mpi, Jeremiah Egwu, Nicholas Iminabo Wokoma, Vera Sam Dike and Aleruchi Akani.The statement said the newly appointed permanent secretaries would be sworn in by the administrator on a date to be announced later.

The Commander of Nigerians Army Unit at Bille, in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State has paid homage to the Amanyanabo of Torusarama-Piri, Alabo Asari Dokubo, for helping to rescue a soldier that was kidnapped on the waterways in the area.The Commander, who was accompanied by some of his officers and men took a salute before the traditional ruler and expressed the gratitude of the unit for what the king and his security group known as Mama Soldiers did to rescue Salihu Ibrahim that was kidnapped along with 19 other people earlier in May. A statement from the palace…