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Delta State governor and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has deplored poor supply of electricity to consumers in the state by Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC). Okowa expressed his displeasure over the situation at the official opening of Lumen Christi College, Maryhill, Owanta in Ika North East Local Government Area of the state. He said that even when residents and communities procured transformers and handed over to BEDC, “they will still charge them to energize it”. According to the governor, “sometimes you install a transformer, the distribution company will ask you to come…

Spokesperson of the Peoples; Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr Charles Aniagwu says the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was still open for further dialogue with angry Governor Nyesom Wike and his group. Aniagwu who spoke on Arise Television on Wednesday night, said Atiku’s reaction to the alleged boycott of the Presidential Campaign Council by Wike’s group was not a foreclosure of further reconciliation with the group and other stakeholders in the party. He said Atiku’s call on the party to move on was a call to focus on the real issues bothering Nigerians and not necessarily meant to…

As incidents of corrupt practices in public offices continue to rise, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC has reached out to traditional rulers and religious leaders to join the campaign to stop the practice. Giving a keynote address at the one-day sensitization which held at Landmark Hotels, Port Harcourt, Rivers State commissioner for Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon Borabe Bari said corruption is causing the country to bleed and be poor. He lamented though anti-corruption agencies have been tracking corruption in the country, failure to bring those found culpable has undermined the system. Said he: “Corruption has been a major challenge in…

The Assistant Commandant General in charge of Zone L, ACG James Bassey has charged 49 newly trained officers and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Rivers State Command, to devote their utmost allegiance to safeguarding the critical national assets and infrastructure of the Nation. ACG Bassey made this call while delivering a keynote address at the passing out parade of the newly trained officers and men at the Command Headquarters of the NSCDC in Port Harcourt. He said the Commandant General, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, in his renewed vigour, has provided avenue for personnel to thrive…

Andoni Local Government Chairman, Rivers State, Hon Erastus Awortu has stated that his first year in office witnessed several life-touching programmes geared towards boosting household economy in the local communities of the area council. Awortu made this known while addressing the people on the achievements he recorded in his first year in office with a promise to leverage on available resources for collective benefit of the people. He said the projects so far initiated were beginning to yield positive impacts in the area of poverty reduction, employment generation as well as addressing restiveness among youths. The council chairman recalled how…

Chairman of the National Rice Producers Processors Millers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NARPMAN), Rivers State Chapter, Mr. Akandu Godwin says the body is ready for commercial rice production in the state but is constrained by lack of equipments. Akandu made the disclosure in Port Harcourt at a two-day training programme organized by the association in collaboration with stakeholders in agric-business for rice farmers in the state. According to him, the essence of the training was to brainstorm on enhanced profitability along the rice value chain. The farmer explained that before now, some rice farmers in the state had adopted…

The governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has inaugurated School-based Management Boards in Benin City, comprising the School-based Management Boards for the Senior Secondary School and the School-based Management Committees at the Basic Education levels. The Nigeria Learning Passport was also launched by the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Mr. Babagana Aminu, an education specialist. Babagana Aminu said the passport was designed to complement the face-to-face learning approach and reduce the education poverty gap in Edo State and Nigeria at large. Urging stakeholders in the education ecosystem including parents, guardians, donor agencies and school-based management boards…

With his appointment as the new helmsman at the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, the congratulations have flowed in fast and steady for new Interim Administrator Major General [rtd] Barry Tariye Ndiomu. These have come mostly from different groups of ex-militants who have benefitted from the PAP currently in its 13th year. Marking a departure from the past, where in the past seven years, heads of the PAP have been removed unceremoniously, including Brigadier Gen Tarila Boroh and Prof Charles Dokubo in the midst of the congratulatory messages, is one from the immediate past Interim Administrator, Colonel[rtd] Milland Dickson Dikio .…

Prominent civil rights activist, Stephanie Ekpebulu, has hailed the enactment of the Female Inheritance Law in Rivers State, urging women, especially in rural communities, to take advantage of the new law and assert their rights to their legal and legitimate rights in their communities. Governor Nyesom Wike had recently assented to the Female Inheritance Law, which was passed earlier in the year by the House of Assembly. Ekpebulu who is a lawyer, said both the Bible and the Supreme Court endorsed the right of women to inherit their father’s property and the new law has come to put a legal…

With a debt profile of N378,878,236,830.75, Delta State is the most indebted of the six states of the South-South geopolitical zone. The zone also hosts the major oil bearing states in the country, including Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, and Edo States. Rivers State follows with a debt profile of N225,505,011,356.83. These figures contained in June 2022 release by the Debt-Management Office DMO, is generated from the signed off domestic debt data from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Leading the pack nationwide is Lagos State with a domestic debt profile of N797,305,312,602.52. Other states in the…