infrastructure, education, health top priorities
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, presented a N214.2 billion budget to the Edo State House of Assembly, for the 2022 fiscal year, representing a 32.96 percent increase from the N161.1 budgeted for the year 2021.
Obaseki, who presented the budget to...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has signed into law the revised 2020 Appropriation Bill.
This followed the presentation of the Budget by the Majority Leader of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Martin Amaewhule, to him at Government House, Port Harcourt.
Total figure of the revised budget for 2020 fiscal...
His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State, last night received two more defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) into the fold of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the State.
Those received by the governor alongside the State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Solomon Agwuana were Hon....
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says more politicians in the State are renouncing membership of their political parties in droves and joining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
They are doing so, he enthused, because they are delighted at ongoing infrastructural development by his administration and they believed the PDP...
Governor Udom Emmanuel has vowed to ensure that henceforth anyone whose livestock strays into another person's farm or property , no matter how highly placed, will be made to face the full weight of the new anti open livestock grazing law of Akwa Ibom State.
He said it would be...
Four hundred and sixty women drawn from the 25 local government areas of Delta State who had successfully completed their training under the Women Empowerment and Skills Acquisition Programme (WESAP) were, today, presented with starter packs in their respective areas of vocation by the state government.
Speaking at the ceremony...
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday, inaugurated the Edo State Civil/Public Service Transformation and Enhancement Programme (EdoSTEP), a new initiative to improve efficiency and service delivery in the state’s civil and public service.
Obaseki, at the launch of the programme at the Government House in Benin City,...
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has urged Nigerian lawyers to engage in judicial activism as a deliberate measure to addressing the slow dispensation of justice, and attempts to stifle the rights of the citizenry.
The governor gave the charge on Monday at the 61st Annual General Conference of...
Commends Epie, Odi For Preserving Culture
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said his administration will continue to support festivals that promote unity and the cultural heritage of the people across the state.
Governor Diri stated this on Saturday when he graced both the Obunem Epie New Yam Festival...
The Deputy Senate President and Delta APC Governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has expressed concern over acts of injustice meted out to oil-bearing communities in the country, particularly in the Niger Delta.
This is even as he revealed that the push for an increment of the equity shares of host...
