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INTRODUCTION KebetKache Women Development and Resource Centre organized the 2023 World Water Day and Women Water Summit on Thursday 23rd March at the Catholic Pastoral Centre Igwuruta in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. The World Water Day is an annual celebration which raises awareness and inspires civic action to tackle water and sanitation crisis. The theme of the 2023 World Water Day is ‘ACCELERATING CHANGE TO SOLVE THE WATER AND SANITATION CRISIS’. KebetKache joined the #WeWomenAreWater campaign which began March 15th and ends 24th 2023, to celebrate the World Water Day 2023 with the aim to highlight the…

The 2023 electoral process has revived the age long riverine and upland dichotomy debate in Rivers State. The debate which has become the major platform, upon which ethnic nationalities lay claim to the Brick House, was also the major consideration for power shift from the riverine Ijaws to the upland region in the state.  Rivers State is politically divided into upland and riverine dichotomy. The dichotomy which has long defined politics in the state dates back to the 60s when the state had the first Ijaw Military Administrator after its creation in 1967. From then on, the Ijaws controlled the…

GUBERNATORIAL, STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS: CIEPD CALLS ON INEC TO RESPECT THE ELECTORAL ACT …DEMANDS MORE VIGILANCE, PROTECTION FROM POLICE, ARMY: …CALLS ON NYSC D_G TO SAVE MEMBERS In view of the Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly Elections in Rivers State coming up on March 18, 2023 and as a follow up to our preliminary report from the Conduct of the Presidential Elections on February 25, 2023, The Collaborative Violence Prevention and Mitigation in Rivers State Election a project implemented by Community Initiative for Enhanced Peace and Development (CIEPD) with funding from Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta (PIND), worried…

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE RULE OF LAW AND ACCOUNTABILITY ADVOCACY CENTRE (RULAAC) March 15, 2023 POLICE OFFICERS’ GRIEVANCES OVER NON PAYMENT OF THEIR SALARIES AND DUTY ALLOWANCES; CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY DEPLOYMENT AND NEUTRALITY, AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CREDIBILITY OF THE MARCH 18, 2023 GOVERNORSHIP AND STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS. As the March 18, 2023 Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections approach, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) is worried about feelers and indications that the elections may be marred by more violence,  more brazenly manipulated and compromised than the previous highly disputed February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly…

Former Minister of Transportation and erstwhile Governor of Rivers State, Rt Hon ‘Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’ has urged voters in Rivers State to only vote a person of character and one who has the fear of God as Governor of the State. According to him, that person is Tonye Cole, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Amaechi made the call on Thursday when he visited traders and artisans in Elekahia mechanic village, Ikoku, Ojoto, Okija and others parts of Diobu, where they all testified of his passion and achievements during his time as Governor of the State. The traders…

Non-for-profit organisations, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) Africa on Wednesday, would host a one-hour Twitter Space to discuss how media reported women’s participation in the 2023 elections across the country. In a statement signed by the Executive Director CJID, Tobi Oluwatola, the Twitter space theme: Nigeria Media, Political Leadership and Women Equity’ was to commemorate the 2023 International Women’s Day (IWD) where panelists will speak to the theme. “In line with this year’s IWD theme: Embrace Equity, the event will host stakeholders to discuss how the media have engaged and…

Today, the Kalabari Kingdom does not appear to have leadership to pilot the affairs of the kingdom. This is like a flock of sheep without a shepherd, and we are currently drifting rudderlessly without direction. This is unacceptable to us. We have been in the wilderness and there appears to be no end to it.  Kalabari is moving into a self-destructive mode because those who claim to represent us are only motivated by selfishness and greed. A Kalabari adage says, when there are patriotic elders in the community, elders should never allow a goat about to deliver remain tied up…

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has emerged as top performer in business efficiency and transparency in the federal government’s ranking of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) for the year 2022. This latest result is reminiscent of the board’s 81.46 per cent score in ease of doing business, which placed it on top of all other MDAs for January – June 2022. In the Executive Order 001 (EO1) compliance report released in Abuja by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), the NCDMB scored 81.11 per cent to beat 52 other MDAs captured in the evaluative ranking. Issued…

Piriye Kiyaramo, senior special assistant (SSA) to Bayelsa State Governor on Tourism, says art works have the potential of cultivating a sense of place among members of the community as they see their cultural heritage being expressed in the local arts. Speaking at the opening of a new private art gallery named, Macaulay Eteli Art Gallery in Yenagoa recently Dr. Kiyaramo said, “When it comes to local artists and art galleries, it is important to remind ourselves that art does not exist in a vacuum, rather, it is a two-way street, an exchange between the artist and his audience, which…

I am comrade Chief Mrs. Beatrice Otubo. I come from this state and married in this state. Actually I decided to come into this contest because I saw the menace of Rivers people. Based on that I was driven by passion to come and see how we can salvage the state. When I was growing up as a child, I knew that Rivers State used to be one of the frontline states. You go to Trans-Amadi Industrial Layout, there were so many industries everywhere. Today, what do we have? We just have churches and few banks there. That is exactly…