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Despite the brinkmanship of Elder Statesmen, Pa Edwin Clark, 95 years, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, 94 years, and their own flagship cultural platform, Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership to encourage the reduction in the number of Igbo candidates, all of the latter saw themselves strong enough to win the race standing on their own. Indeed, a meeting called by Chief Clark to achieve consensus was rebuffed to the bewilderment of the old man. Perhaps this is a lesson for Igbos who, by the way are among the most educated, entrepreneurial and creative people in the country and have more than enough of persons…

June 24, 2022 will remain for members of Nkwot Community in Akwa Ibom State, a day to remember. That day, their illustrious son Nnimmo Bassey drew friends and associates from outside and within to the community. He also brought government officials including the permanent secretary Asuquo Seno,Esq, SA to Akwa Ibom State governor on Education Monitoring, chairman Senior Secondary School Management AKwa Ibom State and other government officials to witness the commissioning of a library he built for students there. Asuquo Seno, Perm Secretary, appreciated Rev Nnimmo Bassey for the Resource Centre project and committed to assign a professional librarian…

The chairman of Ahoada East Local Government Area, Chief Ben Eke has flagged off the construction of five (5) projects across the LGA. Speaking during the ceremony recently at Ahoada, Chief Eke said his administration would not only promote the wellbeing of the people but also protect the life and property of the people, hence the need to construct a new police post in the LGA. According to him, “Given that the role of every government is the protection of life and property, we have found it necessary to construct the new Police Post at Odieka Akoh community and its…

Political leaders and stakeholders in Emohua Local Government Area have commended the council chairman, Chief Dr. Chidi Julius Lloyd for accountability and high performance in office within a year. Speaking during the one year anniversary of the chidi Lloyd administration in the LGA, Chief Emeh Glory Emeh said that within his one year in office, what Dr. Lloyd has done is remarkable, adding that in the remaining two years one should imagine what the council chairman would accomplish. “Within one year in office, we can see what Dr. Lloyd led administration has done in Emohua LGA. Therefore, you can imagine…

Our attention has been drawn to a purported and erroneous publication in Rivers Today newspaper (Page 1, Volume 8, No. 13, dated Monday, July 25, 2022), with the headline: Ogbakor Rumuji Ne’de (The Senate of the people), Rumuji Community. C/o office of the Paramount Ruler, HRM Ohna Christian Okachieneke Elechi, Rumuji Community. For the record, it should be known and stated clearly that Ohna Christian Okachineke Elechi who claims to be the paramount ruler/Nnewe-Eli of Rmuji Community and Odegu Kingdom the XII is never, and is never the paramount ruler of Rumuji Community and Odegu Kingdom. For the record, it…

The options appear to be opening up for a third force to emerge in Rivers State to produce a new leadership outside the two main political parties in the run-up to the February, 2023 general elections. The two parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, have worked themselves into intractable crises that are already eating deep into their structures and tearing them down. Besides settling for unpopular and uncharismatic candidates for the governorship election, the PDP and APC have not been able to overcome and manage the fallouts of their presidential and governorship primaries that…

Watchers of the politics of Rivers State woke up on Friday, August 12 to be fed with a photoshoot of Senibo Chris Finebone, the erstwhile firebrand spokesperson of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, the Governorship Candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senibo Sim Fubara, and a former Rivers State Chairman of the APC, Chief Davies Akanya, at the private residence of Wike. Though the initial pictures were uploaded to the social media without a storyline, it was done to effect. Those who know knew. And the pictures spoke a thousand words.…

The youths are more certain who to vote for as presidential candidate than governorship. This is a revelation from interactions and speculations at a two-day training on Investigative Journalism, Inclusive Development and Accountability organized for journalists from four Niger Delta States in Port Harcourt. Giving a goodwill message on behalf of the APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, Douglas Doyi-Bobmanuel, said in his interaction with four youths on their preferred candidates for governorship and presidential candidates, the finding was that three out of the four have Peter Obi as their preferred candidate for the nation’s number one seat, that they were…

Foreword Communications Limited, publishers of National Point newspaper with the support of Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and MacArthur Foundation has concluded a two-day training workshop of over 40 journalists drawn from the Niger Delta Region. The training which took place at the Habitat Hotel, Port Harcourt, brought together print and electronic media journalists from Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers States. Chief Constance Meju, the Managing Editor of National Point said the workshop was organized to train journalists in the Niger Delta Region on the proper perspectives of reporting the Niger Delta and to make their reports more inclusive…

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