For four straight days, beginning from 22 November 2021, Port Harcourt recorded four incidents of fire disaster. A fifth was recorded a day after the earlier four incidents.
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Southern governors’ gratuitous blackmail on 2023 presidency
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Thu Jul 08 2021
If proof was ever needed that our political elite have learnt nothing from our political travails as a country, the outcome of the meeting of the 17 Southern governors in Lagos on Monday, July 5, 2021, was a stone cold affirmation of it.
Rising from a five-hour conclave, the governors were in their usual petulant, grumpy, tantrum best; reeling out a laundry list of ultimatums on burning issues in the country ranging from insecurity, open grazing, the just passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the grandfather of them all, power rotation.
On power rotation, they thundered that the 2023 presidential election must be exclusively reserved for candidates from the South; meaning that the two major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) must both field candidates from the Southern part of the country. Candidates from any of the three
April 27, 2021
From Blessing Ibunge, Port Harcourt
Governor of Rivers State, Ezenwo Wike has imposed night curfew at all entry and exit points with Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Imo States.
Governor Wike made the declaration in State broadcast on Tuesday.
He said the curfew which takes effect from Wednesday night, is necessitated by the recent security breaches and deadly attacks on security personnel by yet to be identified gunmen.
“The Government of Rivers State has decided to restrict night movements into and out of the State from the land borders of the State.
“Consequently, a night curfew is hereby imposed and no person or vehicle is allowed into and out of Rivers State from 8.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m. from tomorrow (Wednesday) 28 April 2021 until further notice.