Author: Emmanuel Obe

Rivers State Government has dismissed the accusation by Chief Tony Okocha, the Chain of the Caretaker Committee of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the state government sponsored the vandalism of the APC state secretariat by #EndBadGovernance protesters in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Chief Joe Johnson, said such utterances were becoming unbecoming Okocha, who he said had very recently admitted that as Chief of Staff to the Governor, he wrote results for local government elections.”He is a rabble rouser,” Chief Johnson said and urged the people of Rivers State not…

Women from Alesa, a community along the East-West road in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State on Friday blocked the road to protest the flooding of their homes by storm water diverted from the road by the contractors handling the reconstruction of the road, Reynolds Construction Company Limited (RCC). The women, who sang lamentation songs, called on President Bola Tinubu and Governor Siminalayi Fubara to intervene for them. They said they had lost valuable household belongings to the flood, while many of the houses could collapse with the flooding. One of the women, Madam Yeye Alale, said that they…

Stakeholders within the Onne maritime hub in RiveRs State have expressed concern about the safe state of trucks used by trucking companies and agents to evacuate and bring in goods to the ports. The stakeholders made their concerns known at their recent meeting at the Nigerian Ports Authority Manager’s Conference room at the Federal Lighter Terminal , Onne. Mr. Awalah Nelson, who attended the meeting, said that the main reason for the meeting was to find ways of ending the menace of the unsafe trucks on the road. He said such trucks have led to the loss of precious lives…

A 45-year-old man identified as Udohika has been arrested by the police in Port Harcourt for allegedly assaulting a two-year-old girl. Sources said the man, who is an electronic technician, allegedly lured the girl whenever he was alone in the store at Gada Street, Ogbunabali, Port Harcourt. The girl’s father became suspicious when she started complaining of pains in her vagina when he was bathing her. Upon interrogation, the little girl demonstrated how Udohika used to touch and rob her vagina in his store when nobody is around. The child also took her father to identify the shop which is…

The Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of Eleme Local Government, Hon. Brain Gokpa, has pledged the support of the local government for the plan to upgrade the ports in Onne so that they can compete with the Lagos ports. Hon. Gokpa gave the pledge when the top management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) led by the Port Manager, Alhaji A.R. Hassan hosted the Chairman and members of his delegation. The CTC Chairman said the local government would help with security, conducive environment and support for NPA’s operations. But he urged the ports authority to comply with the Nigerian local content…

A faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly under the speakership of Hon. Martin Amaewhule has passed the Rivers State education (Return of Schools) Amendment Bill to return Kalabari Girls High School, Buguma to the Rivers State Government. The bill was considered and passed during the faction’s Second Legislative Sitting of the Second Session of the Tenth Assembly. The bill amends the Rivers State Education (Return of Schools) Law No. 1 of 2005, which returned certain schools to their original owners. Contributing to the debate on the Report of the House Committee on Education, members expressed their support for…

Residents of Port Harcourt have tasked the new Commissioner for Works, Mr. Olisaelloka Tasie-Amadi, to intervene to save motorists and commuters from the suffering they are going through at the Ogbogoro axis of the Port Harcourt Ring Road Project. The residents who spoke to National Point also pointed out that the slow work by the contractors was causing unnecessary gridlocks for people passing through the areas affected by the project to their destinations. One of the residents, Mr. John Amadi, who said he plied the route to and fro Port Harcourt every day, congratulated the commissioner on his reappointment said…

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, has said that Rivers people deserve a functional healthcare system that is accessible and affordable. The governor, who stated this when he received a delegation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) led by the Country Representative, Dr Kazadi Walter Molumbo, at Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday, disclosed that this was why his administration would commit huge budgetary allocation to the sector in the 2025. The Governor said, “As a matter of fact, in our 2025 budget, we have three key areas: Health, Education and Agriculture. They are our key areas in our…

The World Health Organisation, WHO, has proposed a partnership with the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in healthcare. The WHO Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo, made the proposal during a courtesy call in Port Harcourt on Friday as he handed over the framework that will direct its partnership to NDDC’s Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku. The WHO envoy applauded the Commission for placing priority on health matters and taking proactive measures to address the challenge of a looming cholera outbreak in the Niger Delta region. Mulombo, who later commissioned 13 ambulances acquired by the NDDC for distribution…

On March 19, 1990, global attention was focused on the rural community of Umuagbai, then of Khana/Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State when the Princess of Wales, Lady Diana, accompanied by her husband, Prince Charles (now King Charles III) formally inaugurated the Women Weaving and Training Centre. For many, the event was to mark a turning point in the evolvement of the over a century old unique art of women of Umuagbai and other neighbouring Ndoki communities in the weaving of the Akuruaku cloth, which had become well known all over the world. The centre built by the then…