Rivers Govt Signs Contract To Produce 330,000 Cubic Meters Of Potable Water Per Day
The Rivers State Government has signed contracts for the rehabilitation and upgrading of water supply for Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas. It is expected that when executed, the projects will upgrade 496 kilometres of pipeline and will produce…
Rivers Governorship: Appeal Court Sacks Wike
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday affirmed the judgment of the Rivers Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The court declared that Nyesom Wike, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in this year’s governorship election in Rivers state, was…
Fayose Cautions Buhari, APC Over Rivers, Akwa Ibom Tribunal Verdicts
Written By Chukwudi Ogana Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has condemned the tribunal judgments which nullified the governorship elections in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States. Governor Fayose expressed concern over what he described as an attempt by President Buhari and…
Your Screening Not a Confirmation – Senator Tells Amaechi As Screening Resumes October 27
Senator George Sekibo, who is one of the Rivers senators opposed to the nomination of the immediate past governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi as minister has stressed that it is one thing to be screened and another to be…
You Left Huge Debts, Not N7.5bn For Rivers – Wike Tells Amaechi
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has disagreed with his predecessor’s claim that he left N7.5bn cash in the state’s coffers, arguing the former Governor Rotimi Amaechi had, to the contrary left huge debts for the state. In a statement,…
Amaechi Fails To Stop Wike From Probing His Administration
The former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on Thursday, lost his bid to stop the probe of his administration by Governor Nyeson Wike. Justice Simeon Amadi of the State High Court dismissed a suit filed by the ex-governor challenging…
Wike Signs Rivers Kidnap Prohibition Bill Into Law
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has signed the state’s anti-kidnapping Bill into Law, saying the new law, as passed by the State House of Assembly, will help in checking rising wave of abduction for ransom in the state….
PDP Dares Amaechi: Stop Hiding Behind Buhari, Defend Yourself If You Didn’t Steal Rivers’ Money
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dared the former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to come clean on the allegation of financial embezzlement leveled against him. The state chairman of the PDP, Chief Felix Obuah, who challenged the…
Agip Facility Gutted By Fire In Rivers
The Agip oil company centre in Ebocha in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State has been gutted by fire. TheStreetReporters.com gathered that the fire started last night. The cause of the fire or number of casualties remains…
How Girl, 18, Killed Mother Over Order To Cook
A girl of about 18 years has killed her mother in Rumuchakara village in Choba community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Choba community, one of the communities that plays host to the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) witnessed…
Protests Failed To Stop INEC From Declaring Wike Rivers Governor-elect
Complaints of widespread violence and electoral malpractices, to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by aggrieved political parties in Rivers State were not weighty enough to convince the electoral umpire from declaring the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party…
