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The Edo State Government has reclaimed a road in Uteh Community, Upper Mission Extension of the Benin metropolis, which it alleged was illegally appropriated by the proprietor of Divine Providence School for a building project. Indigenes and residents of the community, it said had in a viral video raised alarm around 4pm on Saturday, November 5, 2022, that the school proprietor was raising a fence to cut off the road from public use, and called on the government to come to their aid. Commissioner for Physical Planning, Housing, Urban and Regional Development, Isoken Omo, who led the ministry’s enforcement team…

The ravaging flood and the devastating consequences that visited several communities in different parts of Nigeria has left a bitter taste in the mouth of the victims. The flood, which has been rated as worse than that of 2012 has brought untold hardship on several citizens of Nigeria, while the government is also perceived to be at its wit end as the enormity of the devastation seems to have overwhelmed the various governments. Several communities have been submerged, unquantifiable properties destroyed and lives have been lost. Truly, it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, because at the…

Frontline gender based non-governmental organization in the Niger Delta, Kebetkache Women Resources and Development Center has reached out to flood internally displaced persons in Rivers State. On Friday October 28, heeding cries for help from good spirited individuals and organizations to step in and help ameliorate the sufferings of the 2022 flood victims, the NGO set out with a team of medical personnel, media and staff to visit some of the IDP camps. The   team visited Abarikpo Camp and the Akoh Center both in Ahoada axis where food items, toiletries including sanitary pads and baby diapers, soap, toothpaste, solar…

A leading civil society organization in Africa, (CODE), has drawn the attention of the Rivers State Government to the deplorable conditions of people in the state rural communities, due to total neglect and lack of infrastructural development. CODE, therefore, urged the State Government to urgently mitigate the situation by addressing some of the infrastructural decay and deficit impeding development in the oil-rich state. In a press conference addressed by Rivers State Lead CODE, MS Evelyn Williams shortly after a town hall community meeting it held at Landmark Hotel, Port Harcourt, on Thursday, 27th October, 2022, CODE noted that, as one…

Touched by the pathetic situations faced by most Rivers Communities, as a result of lack of infrastructural facilities or decay in few existing ones due to neglect and lack of maintenance by the Government, African leading civil society organization, Connected Development, CODE, has called on the Rivers State Government to see the urgent need to address infrastructural deficit in the state. This call was made on Thursday, 27th October, 2022, during a town hall meeting hosted by the organization for communities in Rivers State, at Landmark Hotel in Port Harcourt. The event which had “Follow the Money Project”, had community…

Africa’s leading civil society organization, Connected Development (CODE) has admonished the Rivers State government to address some of the infrastructural decay and deficit impeding development in the oil-rich State. As one of the States in the Niger Delta, a major region for Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, Rivers State has suffered prolonged conflict resulting from the negative impacts of oil exploration and tension between host communities and oil-producing companies. In 2021, with support from Ford Foundation, CODE initiated the second phase of the project “Empowering Oil-Rich Communities for Improved Service Delivery (EMOC) in Rivers State aimed to amplify the demands…

Tonye Patrick Cole mni, theRivers State All Progressives Congress APC governorship candidate, appeals ruling nullifying the APC primaries conducted in Rivers State by the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. On October 25, 2022, the Federal High court in Port Harcourt in its decision, ruled in favor of  the claimant, George Orlu and four other persons who claimed to have been unlawfully excluded from participating in the All Progressive People’s governorship primary election. This led to the nullification of the APC primaries, disqualifying Tonye Cole and Innocent Barikor as candidates in the 2023 gubernatorial elections of Rivers State.…

October 24, 2022 PRESS RELEASE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT MUST DEMONSTRATE ITS COMMITMENT TO END EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS BY INVESTIGATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF ONE OF THE SUSPECTS IN THE DEADLY ATTACK ON APOSTLE JOHNSON SULEMAN’S CONVOY, WITH A VIEW TO PROSECUTING, UNDER THE APPROPRIATE LAWS, THOSE RESPONSIBLE, INCLUDING ANY AUTHORITY WHO MAY HAVE ORDERED IT. Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) calls on Nigerian government to use the recent extrajudicial killing of one of the suspects arrested for involvement in the dealdy attack on the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman to demonstrate its commitment…

Labour Party Presidential flagbearer Peter Obi has called for a state of emergency in Bayelsa State to address the disaster caused there by the flood sweeping through parts of the country. Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State received the former Governor of Anambra State and Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, who is on a solidarity visit to the State over the ravaging flood. “I came in through the air and I saw the impact of the flood. I have been to other places, and I have never seen this kind of destruction. The Federal Government needs…

When the Federal government in obedience to the international court judgement in 2002, which favoured Cameroun, repatriated the Bakassi people to their home states, mostly Bayelsa State, hundreds of lives were shattered. The Federal Government was compelled to cede oil and gas rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun after decades of bloody contestation. Twenty years after the court decision that upturned their lives in a place they and their forebears called home, many still live in a state of limbo in Yenagoa and other places. writes Preye Okah, who has been following the travails of the Bakassi returnees. Sarah Ezekiel, is…