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Three lawyers expected to appear before an Electoral Petitions Tribunal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State were reportedly arrested on Saturday over alleged possession of forged electoral materials. This is as human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana calls for their immediate release. The lawyers, Jerry Aondo, Dr. Sobere Nelson, and Odum Eyiba, are allegedly lawyers to the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are billed to appear for the party and its governorship candidate before the tribunal on Monday. They were currently been held at the Police Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, Ogunabali by Hypercity Supermarket , to be transferred to State CID.…

Internal power play within the All Progressives Congress (APC) might have led to the suspension of the chairman of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, from the party. Onochie’s suspension was conveyed in a letter addressed by the executive committee of Ward 4 in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State to the state chairman of the APC in Delta State. The letter, which was signed by the chairman of the APC in Ward 4, Onicha-Olona in Aniocha Local Government Area of Delta State, accused Onochie of working for the Peoples’ Democratic…

INTRODUCTION KebetKache Women Development and Resource Centre organized the 2023 World Water Day and Women Water Summit on Thursday 23rd March at the Catholic Pastoral Centre Igwuruta in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. The World Water Day is an annual celebration which raises awareness and inspires civic action to tackle water and sanitation crisis. The theme of the 2023 World Water Day is ‘ACCELERATING CHANGE TO SOLVE THE WATER AND SANITATION CRISIS’. KebetKache joined the #WeWomenAreWater campaign which began March 15th and ends 24th 2023, to celebrate the World Water Day 2023 with the aim to highlight the…

Community leaders, government agencies, civil society organizations, and the media, recently converged at Landmark Hotel in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on a one-day stakeholders Town-hall meeting with Connected Development (CODE), an accountability and transparency advocate non-governmental organization. The meeting which held on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, had Kebetkache, Track it, Budget it, and other NGOs as implementing partners, and was sponsored by OXFAM, with the agenda: “Dialogue On Better Social Services Provisioning and Delivery at the Hosts Community”. In his opening remarks, Rivers State Support Officer of CODE, and Follow the Money, Mr. Charles Uffort Timothy, appreciated participants…

Governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP in Akwa Ibom state, Senator Bassy Albert Akpan has called for investigation into the alleged killing of three indigenes in Ibiono Ibom local government area allegedly by the police. Akpan, who is Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District made the call in his Ididep Usuk community while interacting with journalists. He commended the electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for improvement in the conduct of the governorship election. He adjudged the election to be ” generally peaceful, but for the unfortunate incident of the killing of three Ibiono Ibom…

Governor Udom Emmanuel has stated that he is ready to accept the outcome of the Gubernatorial polls, saying that “anybody who wins is my candidate.” The governor spoke immediately after casting his vote accompanied by his wife , Dr. Martha Emmanuel The governor arrived the unit 1, ward 1 Away Iman at 10.36 am and immediately went through the accreditations and voted at 10.43am. The governor who addressed the press, expressed delight about the impressive  turnout and peaceful  conduct of voters in his domain. He stated that he has received reports across the state of large turnout and peaceful nature…

***locally made riffle recovered About five political thugs have been apprehended by security operatives in Ibiono Ibom local government area of Akwa Ibom State. A source in the security agency told our reporter that they were trying to snatch election materials when security operatives swooped on them. It was gathered that local made riffle was recovered from the hoodlums Details loading…….

*** 3 CPs, 6 dep CPs deployed to Akwa Ibom Akwa Ibom State Police Command has deployed no fewer than 11,000 personnel to the 31 local government areas of the state to ensure a hitch-free Gubernatorial and House of Assembly polls. Also, three Commissioner of Police and six deputy Commissioners of Police were deployed to the state to further beef up security. It was gathered the top police personnel were drafted from the states that are not conducting elections. The State Commissioner of Police, Olatoye Durunsimi has been deployed to Imo State for the polls. Police Public Relations Officer, SP…

The 2023 electoral process has revived the age long riverine and upland dichotomy debate in Rivers State. The debate which has become the major platform, upon which ethnic nationalities lay claim to the Brick House, was also the major consideration for power shift from the riverine Ijaws to the upland region in the state.  Rivers State is politically divided into upland and riverine dichotomy. The dichotomy which has long defined politics in the state dates back to the 60s when the state had the first Ijaw Military Administrator after its creation in 1967. From then on, the Ijaws controlled the…

GUBERNATORIAL, STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS: CIEPD CALLS ON INEC TO RESPECT THE ELECTORAL ACT …DEMANDS MORE VIGILANCE, PROTECTION FROM POLICE, ARMY: …CALLS ON NYSC D_G TO SAVE MEMBERS In view of the Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly Elections in Rivers State coming up on March 18, 2023 and as a follow up to our preliminary report from the Conduct of the Presidential Elections on February 25, 2023, The Collaborative Violence Prevention and Mitigation in Rivers State Election a project implemented by Community Initiative for Enhanced Peace and Development (CIEPD) with funding from Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta (PIND), worried…