Author: Emmanuel Obe

The Chairman of Bonny Local Government, Mrs. Anengi Claude-Wilcox, has said that the council would investigate the passenger boat that failed to offer assistance to victims of last Sunday’s boat mishap on the Bonny River. In a statement signed by the Secretary to the council, Mr. John Gabriel-Pepple, the chairman said she was deeply saddened by the incident and has commiserated with the victims and their families. Three people including a toddler drowned when a passenger boat travelling from Port Harcourt to Bonny on Sunday evening. The incident was reportedly caused by a storm at an area called ‘Yellow Platform”…

The Chairman of Eleme Local Government, Chief Brain Gokpa, has said he and other younger politicians in the local government have retired Senator Olaka Nwogu from the political leadership of the local government area. Chief Gokpa spoke on a day that Senator Nwogu celebrated his 60th birthday. Olaka Nwogu, a former Chairman of Tai/Eleme Local Government, was at different times a Member of the House of Representatives and a senator representing Rivers South East. The Eleme council chairman was incensed that Nwogu had failed to demonstrate leadership in the local government area despite holding influential political offices in the past.…

Bayelsa State Education Development Trust Fund (BYEDTF) has inaugurated a 9,000-litre capacity water project at Comprehensive Secondary School (CSS), Toru Ndoro, in Ekeremor Local Government Area and Angiama in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area. The projects were in collaboration with the Sustainable Partnership Initiative for Development (SPID) as part of the BYEDTF and SPID’s commitment to improving schools and communities under the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) program. Dr Alice Atuwo, Executive Secretary of BYEDTF noted that the projects were the fourth intervention for public secondary schools in the state after similar initiatives at CSS Okutukutu, Yenagoa, CSS Tungbo, Sagbama…

The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has struck out an objection raised by Reynolds Construction Company Limited, the contractor handling the reconstruction of the Eleme axis of the East – West road against a suit filed by property owners along the route to stop the demolition of their property. The court on Friday had overruled the objection of RCC challenging the jurisdiction of the court to try the matter. The property owners association had secured an injunction of the court in 2024 stopping RCC from demolishing their property located along the right of way of the project without paying…

PETROAN, the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association, has urged Rivers State government to take steps to check the activities of Association of Distributors and Transporters of Petroleum Products (ADITOP), a new group trying to enter the oil and gas sector without following proper procedures. According to a statement issued by the National Public Relations Officer of PETROAN, Dr. Joseph Obele, PETROAN was worried that ADITOP was trying to use Rivers State as a testing ground for their nationwide expansion. “It’s impossible for any new group to gain recognition in the Nigerian oil and gas sector without the endorsement of…

Residents of Agum-Bukuma in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers are lamenting the adverse effect of raging fire sparked off from oil leakage from a yet-to-be ascertained operator. The area hosts a network of pipelines operated by several oil companies who have either denied responsibility or kept quiet over the oil leakage. The fire, which ignited over two weeks ago, has destroyed farmlands, as crude oil polluted the community’s only source of drinking water. The community residents describe the situation as dire, with fears of long-term irreversible environmental and health consequences. The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency…

A Niger Delta advocacy group, the Movement for the Sustainable Development of the Niger Delta (MSDND) has raised the alarm over a plot to blackmail and accuse prominent people and former militant leaders from the region of plots to disrupt the peace and attack oil assets in the region. According to the group, the plot to blackmail the likes of High Chief Bibopere Ajube also known as “Shoot-At-Sight,” King Ateke Tom, the Amanyanabo of Okochiri in Rivers State, Chief Ebikabowei Victor-Ben also known as General Boyloaf, the leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo and…

The Chairman of Port Harcourt City Local Government, Hon. Ichemati has named the garden park at the popular Garrison Roundabout, Port Harcourt City Love Garden. The City Mayor, who disclosed this on his Facebook social media handle on Tuesday, said the love garden would be formally inaugurated on February 14 to mark this year’s Lovers’ Day tagged, Lovers Night With The Sugar Mayor. The city mayor had last December decorated the roundabout with Christmas lights and planted a garden, which changed the look of the junction and its environment. Ichemati said the new look of the roundabout is the manifestation…

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has sued for a change in the current approach adopted by Governors of States in the Niger Delta region in their pursuit to achieve holistic regional development and economic prosperity. The Governor insisted on de-emphasis in vested individuals’ political interests while looking at the bigger picture of achieving enduring regional integration that will strengthen unity of purpose to change the trajectory of development in the region. Governor Fubara made the appeal during the meeting of Governors of South-South States, under the auspices of BRACED Commission, at the Bayelsa State Government House in Yenagoa on…

People in 52 communities across four local government areas of Rivers State now enjoy steady supply of potable water. The water projects are in located in Ebubu (Eleme LGA), Korokoro (Tai LGA), Terabo, (Gokana LGA), and Kpean in Khana LGA. In an age of total absence of municipal water in most parts of Nigeria, HYPREP’s water project has received the commendation of Environment Minister, Balarabe Abbas Lawal. “In our pursuit of a sustainable and healthy future, access to clean water and robust healthcare are foundational pillars. The water scheme project we celebrate is not merely a structure but a symbol…