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Your Excellency Sir, AN OPEN LETTER ON THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN RIVERS STATE Your Excellency, we hope this letter meets you well and compliments of the Season. We will like to commend Your Excellency, for heeding to our call; to help mediate in the political rift between Chief Barrister Nyesom Wike, the Honorable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Sir Siminialayi Fubara, the Executive Governor of Rivers State. However, as a people, we are now at a loss as to whether your intervention has helped in quelling the crisis or escalated it. For us, as custodians of the Rivers…

*Assembly Increases Budget For Stadium, Renal Centre Projects Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has signed the state’s 2024 appropriation bill of N489,443,632,374 into law. Governor Diri appended his signature on the “Budget of Sustainable and Shared Prosperity” on Thursday in Government House, Yenagoa. This figure represents an increase of N8.450 billion from the earlier N480,993,632,369 the governor presented to the House of Assembly for consideration on November 29, 2023. His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted Senator Diri as saying that the budget prioritises key sectors like education, infrastructure, healthcare delivery and agriculture. He expressed optimism that a…

PILEX CENTRE ; aka The Peoples Advocates (TPA) is an association and assembly of public interest lawyers and citizens of Nigeria who are interested in the rights of peoples globally. We are part of the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa, Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Rivers State Network of Non-Governmental Organizations, CSO I-Report Platform/CIEPD Election Situation Room, Network of Police Reform in Nigeria, Transition Monitoring Group, Civic Space Watch Cluster etc. Courage Nsirimovu is The Coordinator of The Public Interest Law Centre (PILEX CENTRE) aka The Peoples Advocates. Courage Nsirimovu is aware of all the political…

Seasonal greetings from the Elders and Leaders of Thought of Rivers State, and we hope that this letter meets you well and healthy. The message of the Angels at Christmas is peace to all men and this indeed is our message to you, the government and the good people of Rivers State. Based on our faith and belief as Christians, we accepted this angelic peace message over two thousand years ago. We accept your humility as shown in your Christmas Day Broadcast of 25 December, 2023, to the good people of Rivers State.However, we THE PEOPLE OF RIVERS STATE do…

If you are a traveller using the Igwuruta-Airport-Omagwa route, There are these bad spots between the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Princess School, Tiffany Hotels & Old Port Harcourt International Airport Hotel Building. There is actually an emergency Police Unit situated in between that stretch. Many kidnap mishaps have occurred there this year 2023; Airport Passengers, Staff and other persons traveling through there, have been victims. On this note, I wish to recommend the following Safety & Security Steps If You Are Using The Route: -Adjust your driving techniques when you get there, -Do not stop to pick anyone, -Do not stop…

Rivers State is not governed by the President of Nigeria, we are a Federal unit, we operate by the Constitution and are governed by Governor Siminalayi Fubara alone. The purported resolution by the President is unconstitutional and must be thrown away to the gutters of the Assembly. This nonsense resolution will embolden The FCT Minister Wike to continue to play god. I call on wise indigenes and citizen of Nigeria in this State to reject the illegal political resolution… Men of the Press in Rivers State should help us amplify our absolute rejection of the unconstitutional resolution… – Courage Nsirimovu…

The series of events that have followed the political crisis that is currently rocking Rivers State has created a cause for concern as politicians in a bid to adopt political shortcuts to resolve their narrow differences, have resorted to violating the constitution and setting aside the rule of law. The latest is the well-publicized eight-point agreement signed by some of the feuding parties in Aso Rock, the seat of the Federal Government in Abuja, where among other resolutions, the parties agreed to re-present the already approved and assented to 2024 budget of Rivers State to a reconstituted House of Assembly…

Voices across the country including that of the minister for Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy, are rising, demanding the apprehension and trial of an Akwa Ibom lawyer whose video displaying the brutalization of his wife at night, has gone viral raising tempers, especially among human rights defenders who only December 10, marked the global 2023 Human Rights Day and end of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, GBV. Following the calls, the commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State has ordered his arrest while the human rights committee of the Nigerian Bar Association in the state has been…

Mr Speaker, Honourable Members, distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen. 2.​It is my pleasure to be before this hallowed chamber today to present our state’s budget estimates of Revenues and Expenditures for the fiscal year 2024. 3.​Before I proceed with my presentation, I wish to, again, thank God for the special opportunity to serve our people as their elected Governor. 4. ​We thank our dear President, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR for his special interest in the peace and progress of Rivers State and the bold steps he has taken to revamp the nation’s economy and sustainable development across the…

BALL Africa, in collaboration with Ball 2 Thrive California USA, marked the 2023 World Basketball Day with their “One BALL” campaign at the Warriors Academy Basketball Court in Ilupeju, Lagos State. The initiative involved the donation of 25 pairs of basketball shoes and the organization of a Basketball Clinic for the Warriors Basketball Academy. Founded in March 2020, BALL Africa’s bi-annual sports equipment drive, “One BALL,” strives to enhance access to sports gear for children in under-served communities. The campaign, which has distributed a total of 225 sports equipment since its inception in 2021, aims to donate one million sports…