Governor Wike and His Fly Overs, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

In the history of Rivers State , the pace of development witnessed in the last seven years was unequalled, since the inception of democratic and military dispensation and the return to democracy in 1999.   This involved both infrastructure and human capital development that brought the state to the fore of comity of states where leadership that was accountable to his people under Governor Nyesom Nzenwo Wike since 2015.   Governor Wike has developed a formidable strategy that criss crossed all facets of the state ranging from Education, Health, Water…

2023: APC fires warns President Buhari, Tinubu

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned President Muhammadu Buhari; Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate; and the National Executive Committee (NEC), to stop APC South-West leaders from hobnobbing with Governor Nyesom Wike.   Wike is a key member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and has been welcoming opposition party chieftains to Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital since May when the PDP crisis started.   During an interactive session convened by the APC National Vice Chairman, South-South, Victor…

Governor Nyesom Wike: A phenomenon or nuisance By Zainab Sulaiman Okino

Against the backdrop of the horse-trading and junkets in preparation for the general elections in 2023, it has been a mixed-bag of old, resuscitated, recycled issues cropping up, just as the political class is strategizing, aligning and realigning themselves to protect their political future, power base and interests. What is absent in all these brickbats and junkets is the interests of the Nigerian people.   One man who has succeeded in forcing his own narrative and personal interests on us is Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state. Love or hate…

You Are A Courageous Leader, Anglican Church tells Ortom

In far away Portharcourt, the Rivers State capital, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State was on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022, was again honoured. This time with the prestigious “Courageous and Purposeful Leadership Award” by the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion). It was an elaborate ceremony that had the cream of the clergy, not just the Anglican Communion family, but from different denominations. The political class was also not in short supply. The Diocese of Evo, Ecclesiastical Province of Niger Delta which hosted the ceremony was filled to the brim. Apart…

Gov Wike Promises Timely Completion Of 5,000 Seater Auditorium In NYSC camp

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has reiterated the commitment of his administration to the timely completion of the on-going multi-purpose auditorium and drainage projects inside the NYSC Orientation Camp in Nonwa-Gbam in Tai Local Government Area of the State. He said the State has benefitted tremendously from the services of Corps Members’ intervention through health, agriculture, education, election, socio-economic and other sectors of the economy. Governor Wike stated this today while receiving NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim who paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Port-Harcourt. He…

Gov Wike And The Dance Of The Spirit By Christopher Egbo

I struggle to reject the version of Nigeria as an abnormal country. But certain incidents in the country have continued to insistently and adamantly push this feeling. If Nigeria were a nation structured to function like a decent country, someone like Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, the Governor of Rivers state should have been confined in a psychiatric or rehabilitation home. But I am not surprised Nigeria is an assemblage of complacent and easily contented people. So, we celebrate vicious leaders simply because they bow to our favoured affinities. And no…

PDP Convention: How Wike Bought PDP’s Superior Seat

Indications have emerged that Governor Nyesom Wike has successfully installed his candidate, Uche Secondus as PDP National Chairman at the party’s convention, which took place in Abuja last Saturday (9th December). Reports alleged that the Governor spent a minimum sum of 15b Naira to sponsor the convention. The Governor is also reported to have bought up almost everybody of influence in the PDP. The recent outbursts of former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Bode George, Ebenezer Babatope and other stakeholders especially from the South West against the PDP National Caretaker…