The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday docked the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Mr. Kenneth Kobani and a politician, Mr. Samuel Okposo on a six-count charge of money laundering before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt. EFCC accused the duo of receiving the sum of N750million, part of the […]
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The crisis rocking the River state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took a new turn on Friday as lawyers and judges were chased out of a high court in Port Harcourt, with at least two persons killed and properties destroyed. The attackers breached the court security around 11 a.m. in violent bid to […]
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has reacted to the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari, by saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) is dead in the state. According to Simeon Nwakaudu, media aide of the governor, Wike said he has not been informed of the president’s planned visit to his state. “I have not been told […]
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Following a spate of crime in Rivers State, the state government has released a list of the dreaded felons, cultists and criminals on the heads of whom Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has put a record bounty of N640 million, far more than the N200m he offered for the Omoku killer, Don Wani. The men […]
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Not less than 21 people were reportedly killed in an attack on Omoku, a community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni (ONELGA) local government area of Rivers state, on Monday. There are reports that the assailants were working for a former militant leader. Although Nnamdi Omoni, spokesman of the state police command, confirmed the attack, he could not give […]
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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says most cabinet members in the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan were not sincere with him. Wike, who served as a minister under Jonathan, alleged that members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the north ganged-up against the former president in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election. […]
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The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared Chief Nyesom Wike the worst Governor in the history of the State, even as it dismissed his excuse for poor performance as untenable. Governor Wike had recently blamed the current economic recession in the country for his administration’s failure to live up to […]
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Controversial Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, today, sacked all his Special Advisers except one. This is coming after he sacked the state’s Executive Council on June 24. The action of the governor was announced by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, who said only the Special Adviser on Religious Affairs, Bishop Winston […]
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The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has spoken on the recent allegations made against him by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. In a statement by the minister’s spokesperson, David Iyofor, on Tuesday, Mr. Amaechi said the Peoples Democratic Party governor has no concrete evidence to prove his allegations. “Wike has nothing, we mean absolutely […]
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There seem to be no end to the dogfight between incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi. Wike has accused the former governor and minister of transportation of overwhelming corruption. Addressing the 106th Quarterly Meeting of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers in Port Harcourt on Monday, He claimed […]
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