Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has advised the Police to concentrate on their constitutional responsibility of providing security. Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Friday when he granted audience to Mr Zaki Ahmed, the New Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Governor Wike regretted that the Nigerian Police has metamorphosed into a political party. He…
The Bayelsa State Government has been commended for making appropriate investments in the tourism sector in its efforts to diversify the local economy. Director General of the National Institute for Tourism and Hospitality, Mrs Chika Balogun gave the commendation when she paid a courtesy visit on the state Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to act with dispatch in releasing the second tranche of the London-Paris Club refunds to the states in order to ease their financial hardships. The president, who addressed the meeting of the National…
Borno Police Command on Thursday confirmed that a police sergeant was killed in Wednesday’s terrorists attack at Magumeri in Magumeri Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, Victor Isuku, confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday. “On Wednesday evening, information was received that Magumeri town was under attack by Boko Haram elements….
At least six persons were confirmed killed as four teenage girls detonated explosives worn around their bodies at the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in the early hours of Wednesday, an official said. Four deafening explosions echoed over Maiduguri in quick successions at about 1.15 a.m., causing sleeping residents to jump out of…
It has been avalanche of defections from the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, since the former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Emeh Glory Emeh bid APC goodbye and embraced the Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike administration and PDP in Rivers State. The latest defectors are from ward 4…
AT the last count 149, 669 Nigerian graduates of the 200,000 engaged by the Federal Government under the N-Power Volunteer Corps are now collecting their monthly stipends of N30,000 monthly having been physically verified and deployed across the 36 states and FCT. According to Mr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to…
Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nsima U. Ekere, has directed the immediate payment of all outstanding scholarship fees for beneficiaries of the 2016 NDDC Overseas Post Graduate Scholarship. In a meeting in Port Harcourt, Ekere expressed unhappiness that beneficiaries of the scheme were facing unfortunate hardship due to delays in remitting…
The Governor of Bayelsa State and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Reconciliation Committee, Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday described the comments by the Makarfi faction of the party, on the submission of his committee’s report as “mere propaganda”. According to him, rather than embark on name-calling, propaganda and outright lies, it was high time the…
The Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali, Tuesday evening held a closed-door meeting with Senate President Bukola Saraki, hours after it appeared a showdown was imminent between the Senate and the retired army colonel. “He (Mr. Ali) has come and gone,” a Senate President’s office insider told PREMIUM TIMES at 6:40 p.m. Earlier…
