Four days after a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Port Harcourt Zonal Office, Chidiebere Onyia, was kidnapped, the state Police Command has assured that she would soon be set free.
Spokesman of the Command, Nnamdi Omoni, gave the assurance yesterday in a telephone chat with The Guardian while giving updates on the whereabouts of the journalist, who is a breastfeeding mother.
Omoni said reports from personnel of the Command’s tactical unit, who were mandated by the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, to ensure Onyia’s safe and quick return have received a green light. x
Meantime, journalists in the state, who are disturbed and sadden by the ugly development, have taken to their different social media handles, calling for the quick release of their colleague.
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Port Harcourt – The Rivers State Commissioner of Information and Communications, Pastor Paulnus Nsirim has said that the state has become a major player in national politics because of the vision and ingenuity of His Excellency, Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike towards rapid infrastructural development of the State.
The Information and Communications Commissioner emphasised that State has recorded giant strides under the leadership of Governor Wike and charged the media in the State to shift its focus from the urban to the numerous rural developmental projects executed by the Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike”s administration.
The Commissioner who disclosed this at a luncheon he organised for media executives and journalists in the state, , emphasized that in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic recession, Governor Wike has been on the driver’s seat pursuing his developmental agenda. “That is the kind of Governor we have in the State ,” he said.
By Adedayo Akinwale
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has described as ‘sanity restored’, the Court of Appeal’s judgement, Tuesday that sacked Igo Aguma as the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party in the state.
The party also expressed lack of confidence in the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to conduct free, fair and credible local government elections in the state.
The Caretaker Chairman of the party, Isaac Abott-Ogbobula, stated yesterday, while addressing reporters in Port Harcourt.
Ogbobula said the judgement sends a signal to the lower courts to stop meddling into internal affairs of a political party.