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Schools reopen for the new academic session, the Rivers State ministry of education has warned principals, and heads of schools to banish the thought of collecting any fees or levies from pupils/students as violation will attract serious consequences.In a release sent out to the media and the public to this effect signed by the commissioner for education, Prof Kaniye Ubeku, parents are directed to call the number 07030967868 to report any found violating the order, which is from the governor.The full statement read:As schools reopen for the new academic year, 2020/2021session, Principals and Heads of Schools are hereby, reminded that…

Gov. Nyesom WikeRivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has decried the upsurge in cult activities, violence and killings around adjoining areas of the Okoro-nodu flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.In a broadcast Sunday evening, Wike recalled that the administration repeatedly warned misguided youths that engaging in cultism is abhorrent anti-social behaviour.He vowed that anyone who disturbs peace and security in Rivers neighbourhoods will be dealt with.“As part of measures to tackle this menace, Government has imposed a 24-hour total curfew for two weeks on the entire area along and around the Okoro-nodu flyover up to one-kilometer radius from Saint Emmanuel Anglican…

The newly signed Train 7 Project of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited will generate 52,000 jobs, its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Tony Attah, has said.According to him, 12,000 of the jobs will come through direct employments; 40,000 persons will get indirect jobs from the project.Attah spoke at the weekend in Port Harcourt during a reception organised by the Junior Chambers International (JCI) to mark the reappointment of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Executive Secretary Simbi Wabote by President Muhammadu Buhari.He praised Wabote, saying without his commitment, the Train 7 project would have been a mirage.Attah said…

Lamentations as Gospel laid deadEven as the country struggles to unravel police brutality and reform the Nigeria Police, police officers appear unbothered by the anger against them which, snowballed into the #ENDARS# protest, some police personnel are till deep in the act. Ogoni youth from Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State are boiling with anger over the killing of one of their own, Gospel Gbaraka, 28 years old, native of Gwara in Khana Local GovernmentArea, on Sunday, November 22, while on duty by a trigger happy police officer at his security post.Gospel was until his death, a security officer…

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”- 3John 2Aspiring for greatness in life is something most humans will have, but achieving that greatness is something not everyone will end up doing.The truth is, there is no short cut to success. Every person out there who has achieved greatness in life will vouch for that. They are where they are because they have put in hard work to get to where they are. And very often, you might belittle yourself and think that you’re not someone who can go…

“But as it is written, ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’” – 1Cor 2:9Calvary Greetings,Good to meet again to continue our knowledge sharing. Year 2020 continues to be a challenge to humanity but not to our God. I have deep thought for you today for knowledge is the key to problem-solving, success and great deeds. Let us explore the word on God’ s glory.For years I thought the above verse was talking about the hereafter, about heaven and eternity; and…

We at the South South Zone of the Civil Liberties Organisation, C.LO, are seriously disturbed by the level of carnage allegedly perpetrated by Nigerian soldiers at Obigbo in Rivers State. Scores of citizens were reportedly gunned down while the lucky ones were chased into the bush where they stayed for several days, facing starvation.It is wrong, unacceptable and unjustifiable for a country’s army to be let loose on its people for whatever reason. It is very disturbing that the Obigbo carnage by the military took place few days after the same military was let loose on peaceful protesters at Lekki…

By Mbah Okemsinachi, Yenagoa In line with ills accompanying the year 2020, residents of Bayelsa State have continued groaning in pain as they recount loss of assets worth billions of naira following the perennial annual flood that hit the state and its environs amidst the #ENDSARS# crisis rocking the country.The flood which submerged the entire state upland areas has caused severe damages to both public and private properties, left many homeless, with the business community plunged into huge loss. This came barely few months after the country stepped out of the scourge of the global Covid-19 pandemic.However, expressing concern over…

By Constance MejuSince the 2012 flood which, submerged many coastal communities in the Niger Delta, especially, those by the banks of the Niger Delta, life has become a constant stress and an unending struggle with poverty.Every year, the people battle with ravaging flood which literarily transports them back to a state of deprivation, loss, misery and constant poverty.Unfortunately, for these community people, who bear the brunt of the hazards of oil and gas extraction to keep Nigeria going, no one cares about their plight so no development plans are put in place to reduce the effect of the flood. Their…