Author: Smart Azubuike

The Justice I.R. Minakiri Commission of Inquiry set up by Rivers state government to investigate the violence and arson in some Local Government Areas on October 7, has started with invitation of 106 people including present and past chairmen of Eleme,Khana,Ikwerre, Emohua, Ahoada East and Obio/Akpor local government areas Following the just concluded Local Government polls as conducted by the Rivers Independent Electoral Commission (RISIEC) on Saturday, October 5, 2024, violence erupted on Monday October 7, 2024 when most of the newly elected chairmen and councilors under the platform of Action Peoples Party (APP) made attempt to gain access to…

In a bid to reduce poverty and hunger among the down trodden in society, a former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA), Mr. Marshall Stanley Uwom, has empowered the people in Ward 3 in Abual/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State. Speaking during the event over the weekend at Abua Central tagged, Simplified Movement (Phase 1), Otari, ward 3 Abua/Odual: Education Grants, Social Support for PWDs/Health Impaired, Small Business and the Elderly the host and benefactor of the empowerment scheme, Mr. Uwom said that he decided to empower the people of Ward 3 because of their support…

Some political leaders in Rivers Sate have expressed readiness to participate in the local government elections scheduled for October 5. Speaking to newsmen on the sideline of a political gathering in Port Harcourt, the state treasurer of Nigerian National Political Party (NNPP), Hon. Augustine Elijah, said that his party would do well in the forthcoming local government election in the state because during the last general election in the country NNPP came fourth. “During the last general election in the country the NNPP came fourth. Therefore, we of the NNPP in Rivers State are ready for the forth-coming Rivers local…

As Governor SiminalayiFubara of Rivers State continue to promote peace and tranquility. A business mogul in Nigeria crown Prince Owen Mekwa has advised Governor Fubara to confront his political opponent in the state rather than treat them with kid gloves. Crown Prince Mekwa gave this advice recently in a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt. According to him, my advice to Governor Fubara is to stop treating his detractors and political opponents with kid gloves but to use his executive powers to deal with them. Crown Prince Mekwa also charged Governor Fubara to warn the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja based…

The out-going chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Port Harcourt Branch, Mr. Viktor Ibim Benibo, has said that he did his best during his tenure as chairman. Benibo stated this during the 2024 NBA Port Harcourt Branch Awards ceremony themed, A Day of Distinction; Celebrating Exceptional Service to the Bar. According to him, “As the out-going chairman of NBA Port Harcourt Branch I don’t know if I have done well within my tenure but I know tried my best. If I had more time the next project I would have embarked upon would have been the construction of the…

Nigerians from far and wide have paid their last respects to the former Chairman of Port Harcourt City Local Government, Chief Azubuike Mmerukini, who passed away recently at the age of 72. Speaking to National Point during the funeral over the weekend at his country home in Port Harcourt, the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 general election for Port Harcourt City 11, Federal Constituency, Hon. Collins Owhonda said Nmerukini did not only work hard for himself, he was also able to touch lives. He described the deceased as an illustrious son of Rebisi Kingdom, recalling that…

The new Chairman of the Port Harcourt Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mrs. Cordelia Eke, has said that she’s open to every member of the branch, including her opponents in the election. Eke, who is the first female Chairman of the Port Harcourt Branch of the association, said it did not matter what camp any member worked for during the election what was paramount was to move the association forward. “In fact, in this election there is no victor, no vanquished,” she said. She was elected with other members of her executive committee for a term of two…

Rivers State Chapter of the Association of Christian Schools International (ASCI) has held a leadership training workshop in Port Harcourt. The state coordinator of the association, Mrs. Carole Emeka Sunday, said the essence of the workshop was to prepare school leaders and teachers who will groom and teach leaders and students who are academically and spiritually sound both in character and learning as well as groom potential successors in the education sector. She said if school owners and leaders did what they were supposed to be doing pupils and students will not cheat or indulge in malpractices. Mrs. Sunday, who…

Governors of the southern states of Nigeria have thrown their weight behind Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s position on the tenure of local government chairmen in Rivers State. Speaking on the political upheaval in Rivers State based on the tenure of local government chairmen, the chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, said it was unconstitutional for anybody to extend the tenure of constitutionally elected public servants. He argued that the law is very clear on the tenure of elected officials, and when the tenure expires, there is no need to extend it by whatever means. Speaking against…

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has told the Senate Committee on Privatization and Commercialization that last Tuesday’s detonation of an explosive device in front of the Hotel Presidential by one of the pro-Nyesom Wike protesters was targeted at the Senators. Fubara who was speaking when members of the committee paid him a courtesy call at Government House, said the purpose was to impress on the Senators to support a call for the declaration of a state of emergency in the state. He said he was not fighting anybody but only defending the State against predators, and those who felt…