Benin City, Edo State capital, on Sunday went agog with wild celebration of the victory of the governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu in Saturday’s governorship election. The jubilant members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were engaged in a long convoy of motorcade doing a road show and dancing to the music…
PDP In Show of Political Strength as Mammoth Crowd, Governors Grace Final Rally
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State on Tuesday engaged in a final show of political strength in the countdown to Saturday’s governorship election in the state with governors of the party across the country storming Benin City, the state capital for the grand finale of its campaigns. Led by Nyesom Wike, Rivers State…
A Governor and His Love for Flyover Projects
The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is adamant about his newfound pastime of spending his capital votes – building new flyovers and expanding older ones. “It has never happened in the history of this country,” Wike bragged to members of the state executive committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that visited him at…
Edo 2020: Count me Out of Violent Clash in Oba’s Palace – Okunbo
We will Take Strong Action against Perpetrators – Wike As controversies rage between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State over the violent clash that took place at the palace of the Oba of Benin Saturday July 25, Edo-born prominent business mogul, Idahosa Wells Okunbo who has…
Edo Guber Dress-Rehearsal: APC, PDP Thugs Clash in Benin
Nobody Can Rig Edo Election – Wike There was pandemonium Saturday afternoon at the city centre of Edo State capital, Benin, when political thugs loyal to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state, and the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC had a violent confrontation outside the palace gate of the…
Police asks Wike to Turn in Nunieh
The police in Port Harcourt on Friday has asked Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to hand in former Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Joi Nunieh. The Rivers Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, said the command had knowledge of the mission of the IGP monitoring unit that came to arrest Nunieh in…
Wike Abandons PDP/Obaseki Negotiations
*Says NWC members are tax collectors. Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has pulled out of the negotiations to bring in his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki in the governorship race of Edo State.In a statement Tuesday evening by the Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, Wike said he had headed back to…
Wike Reels Out Achievements in One Year
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State on Friday took a look at the performance of his government in the past one year and declared that the government had done so marvelously well despite the difficulties. But he said the mood for celebration has been dulled by the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic, which as of Friday…
Five Years After, Wike Revives Amaechi’s Agric Project
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, may have put aside the political animosity between him and his predecessor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, by reviving the cassava processing factory at Afam initiated by the Amaechi administration eight years ago. Wike, who toured the project on Thursday, said the factory would soon be inaugurated and would receive…
COVID-19: High Profile Deaths Cause Stir in Port Harcourt
The death in the past few days of some high profile residents of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State is creating panic in the city, regarded as the hub of the oil and gas industry in in Nigeria. The deaths coupled with the spike in confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state have given…