Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has presented a N448,660,773,476 billion Budget, for 2021 fiscal year to the state’s House of Assembly for consideration and approval. The proposed budget for the 2021 fiscal year christened, “Budget of Recovery and Consolidation”, is made up of N305, 894, 284.061 for Capital Expenditure,…
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers state, has said that he has no regrets proscribing the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Rivers State, due to his belief in the unity of Nigeria. Governor Wike in the statement released on Wednesday 18th November 2020, by his Special Assistant on…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on security agencies to bring oil bunkers to book, saying that those who sabotage government’s effort to eliminate oil bunkering should be brought to justice. Governor Wike in a statement released on Monday 21st September 2020, by Paulinus Nsirim who is the…
Rivers State Government is to construct two new hostels that will accommodate nine hundred students each at the Nigerian Law School, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. In a statement released on Saturday 29th August 2020, by Rivers state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, the State Government is to also build…
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State, says the lack of requisite infrastructure for the Nigeria Correctional Service can impede justice delivery. He made the assertion during the presentation of four prisoner transport vehicles to the Nigeria Correctional Service at Government House, Port Harcourt. According to the statement released on Thursday…
The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt and presided over by Hon. Justice Charles Nwogu has today delivered judgement in suit No.PHC/652/CS/2020 filed by the Attorney General of Rivers State against Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) of Nigeria Limited on Oil Mining Lease No. 11(OML 11). According to the…
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has signed into law the revised 2020 budget into law. This followed the presentation of the revised 2020 Budget by the Majority Leader of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Martin Amaewhule, to him at Government House, Port Harcourt. According to the statement released on Monday…
Governor Wike of Rivers State, has announced the immediate sacking of the State’s Permanent Secretary for Establishment, Mr Sunny Okere for allegedly flouting the COVID-19 law in the state. Although not confirmed, reports have it that the Permanent Secretary Mr Sunny Okere was said to have carried out a burial…
The Rivers State Executive Council has concession eight Catering Rest Houses belonging to the State Government, Paulinus Nsirim Commissioner for Information and Communications reports. According to the commissioner, the Catering Rest Houses include those at Ahoada, Elele, Okehi, Degema, Omoku, Isiokpo, Bori and Eleme Local Government Areas. The State Commissioner…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has expressed delight over the decision by three international oil majors/companies to collaborate in establishing a COVID-19 Treatment Centre in Bonny Local Government Area of the state. The companies are the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas company, NLNG, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that the State Security Council takes all decisions in the prosecution of the COVID-19 pandemic in the State. In a statement released on Tuesday 26th May 2020, by the Rivers State Commissioner of Information, Paulinus Nsirim, said Governor Wike stated this…
The Governor of Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike in a state broadcast on Tuesday 26th May 2020, declared that the government has imposed a nighttime curfew on all 23 Local Government Areas of the State. This nighttime curfew which is part of the measure by the state government to curb…
Governor Wike of Rivers state, has in a state broadcast on Sunday 10th May 2020, lashed out at critics who condemned the demolition of two hotels in the state by the state special task force, for allegedly flouting the COVID-19 lockdown. The governor in his state broadcast yesterday, said all…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has finally make good his threat to demolish Hotels that will flout the State’s lockdown orders on COVID-19, as on Sunday 10th May 2020, he monitored the demolition of two Hotels, Prudent Hotel and Alode in Eleme for flouting the COVID-19 order. The order…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has charged the Rivers State COVID-19 Local Governments Task Force to identify hotels still operating during the lockdown for the State Government to demolish them. Governor Wike in a statement released by Simeon Nwakaudu, who is the Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor,…
The two pilots of Caverton Helicopters held in Port Harcourt will be released soon and will not be prosecuted or convicted. Minister of Aviation and a member of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Alhaji Hadi Sirika stated this on Friday at the Presidential Task-force on COVID-19 in Abuja. The…
Rivers State Governor, Governor Wike has suspended Abua-Odual Local Government Chairman Hon. Daniel E.O Daniel for one month, for failing to show commitment in the fight against coronavirus. In a statement released by Simeon Nwakaudu who is the Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Media, said the governor announced…