Some chiefs of the All Progressives Congress, APC, party in Rivers state who preferred not to be mentioned, have revealed that the governorship ambition of the senator representing Rivers South East, Senator Magnus Abe is the major cause of the widely publicised rift between him (Abe) and the Minister of Transportation and former Governor of Rivers state, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

The Arewa Consultative Forum has called on the federal government to be firm and assert it’s authority against those who have continued to make hate speeches in the country.

The House of Representatives has said that the Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Mr. Babatunde Fashola peddled “inaccuracies, misleading and calculated mischief” about the 2017 budget, maintaining that Fashola’s ministry did not spend a kobo on the Second Niger Bridge in the 2016 budget as was allocated to his ministry then.

The bitter truth is that many states have become lazy, they have become comfortable with the monthly allocation they collect in Abuja such that they are no longer keen to exploit the natural resources available in the states for financial purpose

THE Anambra Consensus Project, ACP, a nongovernmental organization with the objective of ensuring that good governance is enthroned in the state, has set up an eleven member committee to screen all the aspirants who presented their programmes during an interaction with the organization. The committee is headed by the president of ACP, Dr. Emeka Eze, with other members drawn from the three senatorial zones of the state.