Tag: Rivers State
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Rivers political crisis: Fubara raves as Wike likely retreats (7) – By Ehichioya Ezomon
It’s certainly hitting the bull’s eye by declaring in the sixth installment of this header on Monday, June 10, 2024 – and indeed, as shown in the threads so far – that the Rivers “problem” between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and ex-Governor Nyesom Wike “is like the unending story of the tortoise, and has defied the…
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Rivers: PDP disowns 27 pro-Wike lawmakers
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disowned the 27 pro-Wike lawmakers in the state. According to Rivers PDP the 27 defected lawmakers can no longer be accepted back to the party.
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Rivers govt debunks court ruling affirming Amaewhule, 26 lawmakers as PDP members
The Rivers State Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Dagogo Iboroma, SAN, has refuted reports that a High Court in Port Harcourt, affirmed Martin Amaewhule and 26 others, as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Rivers political crisis: Fubara raves as Wike likely retreats (6) – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Rounding off the fifth installment of this series on Monday, June 3, I stated that, “barring any ‘political earthquake’ this week (last week) in the Rivers crisis, the remaining measures Fubara could deploy to arrest Wike’s alleged hegemonic hold on Rivers State will be interrogated in the next installment of the running header!” Two of…
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APC NWC extends tenure of Rivers State caretaker committee
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has resolved to extend, and has extended, the tenure of the Party’s Rivers State Caretaker Committee for another six months.
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3 dead as tanker explosion rocks Rivers
The Police Command in Rivers says three persons lost their lives in a fuel tanker explosion that took place in the state on Tuesday.
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Rivers political crisis: Fubara raves as Wike likely retreats (5) – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Has the political heat in Rivers State simmered in the past week to suggest perhaps – just perhaps – that conventional wisdom has taken hold of the dramatis personae in the crisis to pull back from the precipice they’ve pushed the state in the last eight months?
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Rivers political crisis: Fubara raves as Wike likely retreats (4) – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Seeming to belie the header for this article that’s run three installments, a couple of weeks has witnessed the return of former Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike – from his semblance of a sabbatical leave – to rejoin Governor Siminalayi Fubara in shadow-boxing, and stoking the metatarsising Rivers…
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Resources can be a blessing or a curse – Emir Sanusi
Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of Kano on Thursday said that human capacity development was key to the economic development of Nigeria.
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Rivers Assembly screens, confirms eight commissioners
The Victor Oko-Jumbo-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly, on Tuesday screened and confirmed eight nominees for possible appointment as commissioners in the state.