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A leading civil society organization in Africa, (CODE), has drawn the attention of the Rivers State Government to the deplorable conditions of people in the state rural communities, due to total neglect and lack of infrastructural development. CODE, therefore, urged the State Government to urgently mitigate the situation by addressing some of the infrastructural decay and deficit impeding development in the oil-rich state. In a press conference addressed by Rivers State Lead CODE, MS Evelyn Williams shortly after a town hall community meeting it held at Landmark Hotel, Port Harcourt, on Thursday, 27th October, 2022, CODE noted that, as one…

Touched by the pathetic situations faced by most Rivers Communities, as a result of lack of infrastructural facilities or decay in few existing ones due to neglect and lack of maintenance by the Government, African leading civil society organization, Connected Development, CODE, has called on the Rivers State Government to see the urgent need to address infrastructural deficit in the state. This call was made on Thursday, 27th October, 2022, during a town hall meeting hosted by the organization for communities in Rivers State, at Landmark Hotel in Port Harcourt. The event which had “Follow the Money Project”, had community…

Africa’s leading civil society organization, Connected Development (CODE) has admonished the Rivers State government to address some of the infrastructural decay and deficit impeding development in the oil-rich State. As one of the States in the Niger Delta, a major region for Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, Rivers State has suffered prolonged conflict resulting from the negative impacts of oil exploration and tension between host communities and oil-producing companies. In 2021, with support from Ford Foundation, CODE initiated the second phase of the project “Empowering Oil-Rich Communities for Improved Service Delivery (EMOC) in Rivers State aimed to amplify the demands…

Tonye Patrick Cole mni, theRivers State All Progressives Congress APC governorship candidate, appeals ruling nullifying the APC primaries conducted in Rivers State by the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. On October 25, 2022, the Federal High court in Port Harcourt in its decision, ruled in favor of  the claimant, George Orlu and four other persons who claimed to have been unlawfully excluded from participating in the All Progressive People’s governorship primary election. This led to the nullification of the APC primaries, disqualifying Tonye Cole and Innocent Barikor as candidates in the 2023 gubernatorial elections of Rivers State.…

October 24, 2022 PRESS RELEASE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT MUST DEMONSTRATE ITS COMMITMENT TO END EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS BY INVESTIGATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF ONE OF THE SUSPECTS IN THE DEADLY ATTACK ON APOSTLE JOHNSON SULEMAN’S CONVOY, WITH A VIEW TO PROSECUTING, UNDER THE APPROPRIATE LAWS, THOSE RESPONSIBLE, INCLUDING ANY AUTHORITY WHO MAY HAVE ORDERED IT. Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) calls on Nigerian government to use the recent extrajudicial killing of one of the suspects arrested for involvement in the dealdy attack on the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman to demonstrate its commitment…

Labour Party Presidential flagbearer Peter Obi has called for a state of emergency in Bayelsa State to address the disaster caused there by the flood sweeping through parts of the country. Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State received the former Governor of Anambra State and Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, who is on a solidarity visit to the State over the ravaging flood. “I came in through the air and I saw the impact of the flood. I have been to other places, and I have never seen this kind of destruction. The Federal Government needs…

When the Federal government in obedience to the international court judgement in 2002, which favoured Cameroun, repatriated the Bakassi people to their home states, mostly Bayelsa State, hundreds of lives were shattered. The Federal Government was compelled to cede oil and gas rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun after decades of bloody contestation. Twenty years after the court decision that upturned their lives in a place they and their forebears called home, many still live in a state of limbo in Yenagoa and other places. writes Preye Okah, who has been following the travails of the Bakassi returnees. Sarah Ezekiel, is…

Gloria Iyoyo is a resident of Setari Polo Community in Igbisikalama town in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State. She is one of the many community residents who suffer from poor sanitary conditions in slum communities in Port Harcourt. Gloria, like many others, also suffers from the brunt of polluted water source occasioned by open defecation and improper faeces and waste disposal in the communities. Igbisikalama town is one of the indigenous Okrika Ijaw towns in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area. It is made up of nine riverine communities which are also popularly called waterside communities.…

Auditors-General in the 36 states and the media are critical to ensuring the accountability of public officers in the control and management of public funds, experts counselled at the first Audit Reporting Training workshop held in Benin 5-6 October 2022. They advised that both journalists and state Auditors-General should follow the dictates of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to do proper audit reporting. While the Auditors-General will report their findings to the state Houses of Assembly, the media will comply with Section 22 of Chapter 2, to ensure that citizens get the information they need. Participants…

As flood continues to ravage different parts of Nigeria, Delta State has been experiencing its devastating effect. As it stands today, Delta State is among the worst hit states in the country being a coastal state. Travelling from Asaba to Ughelli, for instance, is now a nightmare because flood has taken over some parts of the road thereby making it difficult for low vehicles to move freely and those who risked it had themselves to blame, because many of these low vehicles packed up after venturing into the flood on the road. A trip from Asaba to Illah in Oshimili…