New Rivers NDLEA boss assumes duties, warns drug peddlers to stop forthwith
Wike cares less about the future of Rivers youths – Dakuku
Dr Dakuku Peterside has urged Governor Nyesom Wike to save Rivers students from missing 2021/2022 admission into higher institutions in Nigeria. Peterside accused the governor of caring less about the future of Rivers youths, hence his adamant attitude not to employ teachers more than eight years after the last set was employed. The former NIMASA […]
Rivers vigilante allegedly kill three for mobbing witch doctor
Members of the Ahoada Security Planning Advisory Committee (ASPAC), a local vigilante group, have reportedly killed three persons for attempting to mob a witch doctor caught conducting a sacrifice with remains of a three-month-old baby in Rivers State. The Delta State-born witch doctor identified as Dr Mike India was caught while trying to bury the […]
Rivers, Edo, others yet to comply with Fiscal Responsibility Law
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) says 13 states, including Akwa Ibom, Benue, Edo, Rivers, Imo, Kano, Katsina, Borno, Plateau, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, and Zamfara have failed to comply with the Fiscal Responsibility Law. It revealed that it has also notified some banks and financial institutions allegedly granting loans without due process to state governments. Speaking […]
Court adjourns Rivers, Imo well suit till 2022
The legal battle between Rivers and Imo over the ownership of 17 oil wells in Akri and Mgbede has been adjourned to January 17, 2022, for a hearing of the substantive matter. Recall that the court had restrained the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Imo State Attorney General and Revenue Mobilisation Allocation, and […]
APC is ready for any form of crisis- Tonye Princewill
Beke emerges Rivers APC chairman
Former Rivers State secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emeka Beke, has emerged chairman of the party in Rivers State. Beke, an ally of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, emerged as the preferred candidate according to votes cast by delegates. He emerged victorious with 1,575 votes against his opponents, Chizi Nyeomasila, who scored […]
NYG: Iyaye Charge Team Rivers to surpass previous records
Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Rivers emerge most indebted states in Nigeria
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has said that Rivers, Lagos and Akwa Ibom states are the three most indebted states in Nigeria, accounting for 29 per cent of Nigeria’s subnational domestic debt. This was disclosed in the recent data released by the agency for the second quarter of 2021. According to the DMO, subnational domestic […]
Breaking: Wike hosts S-South Governors in PH …2023, VAT, open grazing top agenda
JOHESU threatens to embark on strike in Rivers
Rivers, Ebonyi, Anambra, others top 2021 fiscal performance ranking – BudgIT
The State of States report released on Monday by BudgIT, a civic organization, that measures fiscal performances of both federal and state governments in the country has revealed that Rivers state emerged the best sub-national in the overall 2021 fiscal performance ranking. According to the report, this comes as a result of the prudent management […]