Tag: Rivers

The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt December 27, 2023 The residents of Elelenwo in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have hailed the Commissioner of Police, CP Tunji Disu, for quickly halting incessant armed robberies in their area. It was gathered that on December 1, 2023, the Rivers State Police Command […]

Adedamola Ogunbewon December 21, 2023 Enemi George, one of the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that he and others won’t go back to their former party. George revealed this during an appearance on “Politics Today” on Channels […]

Yewande Fasan December 19, 2023 The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for new elections to replace the alleged 25 vacant seats in the Rivers State Assembly. This was one of the decisions made during Tuesday’s NWC emergency meeting in Abuja. This was disclosed to reporters immediately after the meeting […]

Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt December 19, 2023 Uneasy calm has enveloped Rivers state after the Abuja deal that brokered peace between the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara and the state House of Assembly. President Bola Tinubu initiated the peace meeting where Fubara and other gladiators signed eight-point peace accord. The eight-point resolution brought the state back […]

Palladium December 17, 2023 Apart from the reckless and profligate demolition of the iconic Rivers State House of Assembly building, much of last week was taken up by the furore over the resignation of some seven commissioners on the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The governor has come of age and has decided that whatever […]

Adedamola Ogunbewon December 14, 2023 Professor Zacchaeus Adangor has resigned from his positions as Rivers state’s attorney general and commissioner of justice. Adangor informed Governor Similanayi Fubara in his resignation letter dated December 14, 2023, that he chose not to serve in the government out of personal conviction. Adangor, who was a member of Fubara’s […]

Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja December 13, 2023 The federal government on Wednesday, December 13, refuted an insinuation that it had a hand the the escalating political situation in Rivers state, saying what is happening in the state is not its creation. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who was responding to a question […]

Agency Reporter December 13, 2023 Rivers Government has begun the demolition of the House of Assembly complex to give way for its rebuilding, following the recent fire that gutted parts of the building. The demolition started at about 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday with the chambers and auditorium. The process is in progress and may other […]