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Prior to the commencement of the 2023 general elections, a key peace and development advocacy non-governmental organization, Community Initiative foe Enhanced Peace, CIEPD organized a training for  149 community members from eight flashpoint local governments in Rivers State February    to    . Venue was the Retreat Center of the   Bishop Crowther Memorial Anglican Church, Rumubiakani, Port Harcourt. Mrs Egondu Esinwoke-Obalor, executive director of CIEPD said the three-day programme was in partnership with the Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger delta, PIND with the reduction of electoral violence to the least minimum as target through early detection, prevention…

As Nigerians count down to the 2023 elections, the Nigeria Police Force has announced the redeployment of senior police officers for the elections. A release signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Rivers State Police Command, SP Iringe Koko states that the Rivers State Police commissioner, CP Okon Effiong has been drafted to Enugu State for the election while an assistant inspector general of police, AIG Abutu Yaro will lead four police commissioners for election duties in Rivers State. The release read: “The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 13 (Awka), Anambra State, AIG Abutu Yaro, will…

Nigeria’s South-East has been on a violent radar since the official declaration of self-rule by the country’s most prominent separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB). Led by a British-Nigerian political activist, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the group on December 13, 2020, announced the formation of a new security outfit known as the ‘Eastern Security Network (ESN).’ The ESN has as part of its objectives to protect the people and properties of easterners from killer-herdsmen. Soon after its formation the five governors in the region formed a counter regional security outfit called ‘Ebube-Agu.’ The formation of the two groups was…

Chairman of Goat and Cow section of the Rukpokwu Market along the former SARS road, now Anti Kidnapp Unit, Port Harcourt, Alhaji Muhammed Lawan has commended the executive chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Mr. George Ariolu for his developmental strides and achievements in office within two years. Alhaji Lawan made this commendation over the weekend at Rukpukwu in a chat with newsmen. “I want to use this medium to commend the executive chairman of Obio/Akpor LGA, Mr. George Ariolu for his developmental strides which are no mean feat. Mr. Ariolu has achieved much within his two years in office…

An educationist, Dr. Chianolam Jacob says there are several reasons why the people of Oyigbo, Eleme and Tai Local Government Areas respectively, should cast their votes for the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP candidate for the Federal House of Representatives, Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo Federal Constituency, Mr. Felix Uchenna Nwaeke. Dr. Chanolam Jacob spoke recently during the Rivers State PDP campaign rally at Afam in Oyigbo LGA. According to him, “Before Mr. Nwaeke began to seek for the seat of Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo Federal Constituency, he was a former commissioner in the Rivers State and also a former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly,…

The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed, popularly known as “Jagaban”, has told Rivers people, especially the youths that they are not looking for fish and crayfish in the state, but power to change their lives. He gave this assurance during the APC presidential campaign rally at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Said he: “What we are looking for is authority; authority to change your lives; power and mandate to give you the best of life, to take care of your inheritance, to make sure that all of you,…

As expectation mounts over the 2023 general elections, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), aka Pyrates Confraternity, Benin One Branch, weekend, organized a sensitization programme for residents of Benin City. Project Manager of the association, Ibrahim Oven said the exercise is aimed at encouraging the electorate on rightful conducts during the elections. He urged the electorate to vote wisely for the candidates that they think and feel would best create the enabling atmosphere for the dividends of democracy to thrive. “What we have come out to do today is to ensure our vote counts. This is usually what we do…

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has charged pilgrims from Edo State embarking on pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan, as well as other Christians, to pray for the success of the 2023 general election and continuous unity and progress in the country. The governor Obaseki made the request at the departure wing of the Benin Airport where he went to bid farewell to a 16-man delegation from Edo State embarking on the 2023 pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan. He commended the chairman of the state Pilgrims Board for a change of narrative in relation to abscondment. Said he, “I believe this…

The Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Edo State, Hon. Obo Effanga, has over 1.9 million persons have collected their Permanent Voter Cards, representing 79.8 percent. Obo Effanga disclosed this while addressing journalists on the preparedness of the commission ahead of the general elections in the country, Benin City, Edo state. He said the Commission was not expected to see any figure above the number of those who collected their PVCs adding that anything above that would amount to nullity. “The total number of registered voters in Edo State going into these elections is 2,501,081 persons that are registered to vote in…

Imagine a farmer with his plough, and hour after hour he is ploughing in the field. He is doing this work in expectation that there will be a harvest. If he was convinced that those seeds would not grow do you think he would take the time to go out and plough? Perhaps just so that the other farmers could see that he knew how to plough? No, he would not waste his time. But if he believes that the seeds will grow, he ploughs in expectation; he ploughs with the distinct understanding that that is the necessary and logical…