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Members of Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Nkpolu, have marked and celebrated the 2022 International Day of the Girl-Child with the theme: ‘The Girl Child; Empowerment and Knowledge of Her Potentials.’ Speaking at a seminar/awareness seminar organized by the club last Wednesday at the Amphitheatre the Rivers State University (RSU) Nkpolu Oroworukwu, Grace Adikema–Alaegbo, said that the 21st century teenagers and adolescent especially girls should not just use smartphones and other digital devices for just the sake of social media but to use it for research. According to her, “As female students, if you have phones or social media, please…

The Ninth Legislative Assembly of Eleme Local Government in Rivers State has begun the process of enacting a bye-law that will institute an automated system for the collection tax and other revenues in the local government area. At the public hearing organised by the assembly to review the Revenue Bye-law of the LGA, the Leader of the Legislative Assembly, Hon. Jima Chumu, said when enacted, the proposed Revenue Bye-law would meet up with modern revenue policies and realities for the growth and development of Eleme Local Government Area. When the law comes into effect, all revenues payable to the local…

– Describes Bayelsa as Worst-Hit State – Questions Source of Minister’s Flood Data Comrade Tamarakuro Oweifie, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Bayelsa State Governor on Media has frowned at comments credited to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, that Bayelsa Is not among the top-ten states hit by the devastating effects of the 2022 flood. While expressing shock as to what basis Mrs Farouq used in making such unverified assessment, the SSA on Media wishes to put the record straight that Bayelsa stands as the worst impacted state from the floods due…

Thankfully, the 2022 flood disaster that ravaged 24 states of Nigeria, leaving in its wake hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of people homeless with destroyed livelihoods, is receding, restoring hope of resettlement for those that survived it. But, the disaster and the inept manner in which it was managed have left a lot of questions and lessons for Nigeria. A lot of those lives, homes and programmes that were lost because of the disaster, could have been saved if officials and agencies responsible for managing disaster put in mitigating processes and actions in place at the right time.…

The devastating floods in Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States have compelled the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Maj-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (Rtd), to indefinitely suspend his scheduled stakeholders’ engagement. Ndiomu, who confirmed the suspension of PAP’s activities in a statement to the media, said he was scheduled to meet stakeholders in the region when it became clear that the flood was a more urgent matter to attend to. The PAP administrator in the statement signed by his Special Assistant, Media, Mr. Thomas Peretu, sympathised with victims of the flood across the Niger Delta region. Describing the devastating flood as sad,…

27 years after the trial and hanging of their husbands on November 10, 1995, under the military regime of General Sani Abacha, four widows out of the wives of the 9 executed men, have discontinued the pursuit of their case against multinational oil company, Shell. The women had initiated a suit in 2017 which sought to affirm the complicity in the events surrounding the trial, which led to the hanging of their husbands. The executed men include writer, dramatist and minority rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa . The other men who were Ogoni rights activists on the platform of the Movement…

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The fate of over 300 final year students of the Delta State School of Nursing from Warri, Eku and Agbor is hanging in the balance and that has resulted in a protest by the affected in Asaba, Delta State. The students, who were billed to commence their final National Nursing Council Examination today, were informed early Tuesday morning that they were not registered for the examination by the director of the School of Nursing in the state despite paying all necessary fees. It was learnt that the director, School of Nursing, Mrs. Gloria Igumbor, communicated the sad development to the…

Delta State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Isaiah Bozimo has said the three proposed bills to the Delta State House of Assembly will enhance the administration of civil justice and deepen democracy in the state.  Bozimo stated this in an interview with journalists immediately after the public hearing on the proposed bill at the state House of Assembly. The attorney general listed the proposed bills as, Delta State Good Governance and Accountability Commission Bill 2022, Administration of Civil Justice Bill 2022, and Administration of Criminal Justice Bill 2022. He noted that the purpose of the public hearing was to get…

The chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Delta State Council, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu has commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for successfully completing the council’s Press Centre which started since 2014. Ikeogwu gave this commendation at the inauguration of the well-furnished journalists’ house on Friday, October 28, 2022 by Governor Okowa. The highly elated NUJ chairman said the project coming 31 years after the creation of the state has given the union an identity. Said he: “This day will forever remain indelible in the minds of practicing journalists here in Delta State and beyond. Let me first appreciate God Almighty, the maker…