By Dirisu Yakubu The River state governor, Nyesom Wike and All progressives Congress, APC, national chairman, Tuesday traded blames on the concept of leadership by example. The two leaders were at each other’s throat at the official presentation of “The Big Interviews,” a book authored by the immediate past Managing Director of the Sun Publishing […]

Rivers State Governor,  Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to fight corruption within the ambit of the law. Governor Wike declared that any action outside the tenets of the law is corruption. Governor Wike spoke on Monday during the “Walk Against Corruption ” organised by the EFCC to […]

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has approved the inclusion of 2,673 additional retirees into the monthly pension payment scheme of the state government. According to a statement on Sunday by the Director-General, Rivers State Pension Board, Ijeoma Samuel, the approval followed the completion of biometric data capture of the new pensioners. This is in addition […]

By Aliu Shuaib With Nigeria’s zero-sum approach to politicking where the contest is fiercely adversarial and the winner rides triumphant, it is difficult to find political opponents being charitable towards each other. Since 2015 when the PDP was swept from power at the centre, relations between the key actors of both parties have been far […]

By Chibuike Okeke In 2016 while inspecting ongoing projects in the state, Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike said his administration had built over 200 roads and bridges in the state. Since he assumed office in 2015 Governor Wike has built hundreds of bridges across roads in the state, he has even built symbolic bridges across […]