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. … Stops Martin Amaewhule From Parading Himself As Speaker. PHC/3030/CS/2023 A High Court Sitting in Port Harcourt under the seal of Hon. Justice M.W. Danagogo has confirmed Rt. Hon. Edison Ehie, Esq. DSSRS, as the authentic Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The court has also restrained Martin Amaewhule and Dumle Maol from Parading themselves nor interfering with the activities of Rt. Hon. Edison Ogerenye Ehie as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. Rivers Mirror gathered that the court also warned against the use of Thugs and Police officers to forcefully gain access into the…

infrastructure takes lion share of ₦128bn Despite the atmosphere of political chaos, Rivers State Executive Council has deliberated and approved an estimated budget of N800 billion for the 2024 fiscal year. At the meeting, which was presided over by Governor Siminalayi Fubara on Monday at the Executive Chamber of Government House in Port Harcourt, the Council also approved that the budget be christened “Budget of Renewed Hope, Consolidation and Continuity.” Addressing newsmen after the deliberation, the Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Johnson, said N412 billion was projected for capital expenditure. Recurrent expenditure is N361 billion. He…

Turkish football club president arrested for punching referee on the field Ankaragucu’s Faruk Koca entered the field and hit referee Halil Meler in the face after the Super Lig match against Rizespor ended in a late 1-1 draw. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has suspended all leagues and a court has ordered the arrest of Ankaragucu’s president Faruk Koca after he punched the referee in the face at the end of his team’s Super Lig home match against Rizespor. The court on Tuesday also remanded in custody two other suspects over the incident at Ankaragucu’s home match against Rizespor…

11th December, 2023 His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, The Presidential Villa, Abuja. ANOTHER CLARION CALL ON MR. PRESIDENT TO INTERVENE IN THE SITUATION IN RIVERS STATE I do hope this meets you well. 2. Further to my letter yesterday of 10thDecember, 2023 on the lingering situation in Ondo State, I would like to write again as promised to call your urgent attention in dousing the state of deep political divide in Rivers State. As you would recall, I had earlier addressed a press conference four weeks ago when the…

The organised Labour and the Federal Government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers. Workers in the Federal Civil Service, in separate interviews with our correspondent on Monday, noted that the Federal Government only paid N35,000 wage award for September. Following the removal of the fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu on his assumption of office, the Federal Government agreed to pay N35,000 to each of its workers to reduce the hardship caused by the subsidy removal. The government, in a memo signed by the Chairman, National Salaries Wages…

Africa Is Tearing Into Two Continents And A New Ocean Could Eventually Open Up East Africa could look like a very different place in 5 to 10 million years. TOM HALE Senior Journalist Africa is slowly but surely splitting in two. Like anything in geology, it’s an extremely long process that will take millions upon millions of years, but it will eventually see part of East Africa chip off from the rest of the continent, likely resulting in a new ocean arising between the two land masses. The colossal breakup is associated with the East African Rift System (EARS),…

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections into the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State which have become vacant by reason of the defection of the 27 former State lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP asserts that by defecting from the PDP, the political Party platform on which they were elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly, the seats of the respective 27 former lawmakers have become vacant by virtue of the provision of Section…

.Inaugurates Advisory Council, Emmanuel Alayande varsity governing council Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, has declared that his administration will create a different Oyo State where citizens are law-abiding despite the many challenges they are faced with. The governor also said that the state would soon come up with legislation to restore order and sanity in the society. The governor stated these on Monday during the inauguration of the Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, SAN-led Oyo State Advisory Council, held at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan. The members of the State Advisory Council inaugurated by the…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued a new directive to all banks, other financial institutions, and non-bank financial institutions, suspending the processing charges previously imposed on large cash deposits