Author: Emmanuel Obe

Ijaw leaders under the auspices of Coalition of Ijaw Interest Groups (CIIG) have expressed dissatisfaction with the political developments in Rivers State. The group in a statement issued in Yenagoa, also expressed disappointment with suspended Rivers State Governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara’s alleged attempt to betray the democratic mandate handed to him by the people of Rivers State. The statement was signed by Ben Okoro, Efiye Bribena, Chief Denzil Kentebe, Iniruo Wills, Elaye Otrofanowei, Tare Ekpebu, Pattison Boleigha. Other members of the coalition who endorsed the statement are Ms. Annkio Briggs, Mrs. Rosemary John-Oduone, Ebitim Egbunukumoh and Yimovie Sakue-Collins The statement…

Rivers State Government has announced the commencement of a phased rehabilitation of the State Secretariat in Port Harcourt, in a move aimed at revitalizing the public service and improving the welfare of civil servants across the state. The Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral (Rtd) Ibok-Ete Ibas, disclosed this at the closing ceremony of a four-day Transformational Leadership Training Workshop organized by the state government in collaboration with the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). The event, which brought together Permanent Secretaries, Directors, Local Government Administrators, and senior officials, was held to sharpen leadership skills and bolster governance…

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral (Rtd) Ibok-Ete Ibas, has charged participants of Senior Course 47 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, to find practical solutions to current security challenges facing the nation. The Administrator gave the charge when the Senior Course 47 participants paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Monday. Represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Ibibia Lucky Worika, Vice Admiral Ibas emphasized the significance of their study tour to Rivers State, given the prevailing security threats to lives and property, which…

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…