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The Orashi Peoples Consultative Assembly OPCA has advised the minister of Transport and former governor of Rivers state Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi to stop playing politics with the people of Orashi region. The group made this statement in reaction to the statement credited to Rotimi Amaechi when he visited Omoku Town promising that the issue of insecurity in Omoku Town and other parts of the region will be addressed if they vote the All Progressives Congress into the Government House Port Harcourt. The assembly in a statement signed by its Director of mobilisation Comrade Ndu Davidson and made available to newsmen said the former governor who failed to do anything for the people of Omoku Town and other parts of Orashi region does not need to wait till 2019 to better the lots of the people of the region or show his love for the people of the region. The group which berated him for using the insecurity situation to foster his political interests in the state advised him to use his...

The Ogba Youth Consultative Assembly a socio political group that promotes the interest of the Ogba people in Ogba/ Egbema/ Ndoni local government area of Rivers State has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari and the minister of Interior Lt. Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau over their roles in the killing of the mastermind of the January 1 st attack on innocent persons returning home from the Ney Year cross over in Omoku Town the ONELGA headquarters. The National Publicity Secretary of the assembly Comrade. Joseph Izidor in a press statement made available to newsmen in the state said the timely intervention of the President through the minister of interior ensured that the mastermind of the attack as well as two other of his co conspirators were tracked down and killed thus bringing confidence and peace to the area. The assembly which lamented the insecurity that pervaded the Ogba nation in the past three and half years said the situation would not have escalated the way it ...

Sen. Wilson Asinobi Ake has commiserated with the people of Ogbaland over the New Year day massacre which occurred at Omoku Town in Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni Local Government of Rivers State. Sen. Ake in a press release made available to newsmen said the attack against innocent citizens who were celebrating the coming of the New Year was barbaric, idiotic and the height of cowardice by criminal elements who do not want the Ogba race and the Ogba/ Egbema/ Ndoni local government to move forward. Sen. Wilson Ake who represented the Rivers West Senatorial District from 2007 through 2015 regretted that the scourge of cultism has led to the death of active members of the population. He said it is time the security agencies in the state sit up and boldly tackle the issue of cultism, kidnapping and political assassination which has pervaded the state for long.  He urged the Rivers state government and other stakeholders in the state to avoid playing politics with the issue of ins...

The Rivers West Development Coalition a socio political group in the state has protested the recent Board appointments made by the Federal Government recently. The coalition which is made up of the Ijaw Justice Forum IJF and the Council Of Orashi Ethnic Nationalities COEN after an emergency meeting in Ahoada Rivers state said the appointments which excluded major contributors to the development of the All Progressives Congress APC in the state showed that the Federal Government was insensitive to the people of the region and the contributions made by the region to the country. The communiqué of the coalition which was signed by Ibiye Tom Douglas for Ijaw Justice Forum IJF and Comrade Nwokoma Messiah for Coalition of Orashi Ethnic Nationalities COEN specifically decried the overlooking of the likes Sen. Wilson Asinobi Ake and Hon. Asita Asita a deputy governorship candidate of the APC in the 2015 election in the appointments made. The coalition while urging President Mu...

Former Chelsea ace defender, John Terry has revealed the Premier League club that can beat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and end their unbeaten run. The 37-year-old believes Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea is better than the present Pep Guardiola’s Man City. Terry said Mourinho‘s Chelsea sides in the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons would beat Pep Guardiola‘s current crop of Manchester City stars, despite their remarkable start to the current campaign winning 17 matches in 18 games. The England International, who was part of a Mourinho side that set the record points tally for a Premier League season (95 in 2004/05), said the team would have the edge over Guardiola’s men. When asked which other Premier League sides in history would compete with City, he told Sky Sports: “I would say 2004/05 or 2005/06, those two sides when Mourinho arrived at the club.” “We were never afraid to say: “They’ll have more possession than us,” but we were set, comfortable. “The full-backs ...

The Governor Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa has stated that the recent visit of Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, to the state has no political undertone. Tambuwal and Wike were in Delta State last week for the inaugural youths empowerment entrepreneurship exhibition under the state government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme and Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurship Programme, and the opening of roads in Asaba. Addressing journalists on Monday at the fourth quarterly interactive meeting with journalists in Asaba, Okowa said there was no iota of truth that the visit had political colouration. Okowa described Tambuwal, an APC governor, as his close friend, adding that he was in the state to witness the achievement his administration had recorded in the area of youth entrepreneurship in the state. He stated, “There’s no political undertone to the visit of governors Tambuwal and Wike to Asaba last week. I ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said his major weakness lies in not knowing how to make money. He also disclosed that he even borrowed money to build his three houses in Daura, Abuja and Kaduna. The President made this known while speaking on his assets during an Interview with Sun Newspaper. According to him, “When Murtala/Obasanjo regime came, they made sure that certain grades of public officers must declare their assets when they assumed that office and they must declare when they were leaving. So, when I was sworn in as governor of North East, I declared my assets. “I declared surprisingly, even the number of my cows then. Even if they were supposed to be producing every year, but I declared them the time I was there. And when I was leaving governorship, I became petroleum minister. “When I was leaving to go to War College, I declared my assets. I could recall General Jemibewon then, was the Adjutant-General of the Army. He rang me and said he was sending m...