RIVERS State gubernatorial candidate and the lawmaker representing the Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency Hon Farah Dagogo has been arrested by the police at the request of Governor Nyesom Wike.
Earlier this week, Governor Wike threatened to have Hon Dagogo, an aspirant seeking to get the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP)...
SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has warned Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to stop seeking Igbo votes during his presidential campaigns as he has always disassociated himself from their cause since being elected.
Governor Wike, who was first elected into office in 2015 and then re-elected in...
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned his Edo State counterpart Godwin Obaseki to stop trying to claim they are equals or he will smoke him out and expose him for the ungrateful person he is.
In a racketing up of the political temperature ahead of next year's general elections, the two governors appear to have been...
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has dismissed as nonsense media reports that he has agreed to serve as running mate to former vice president Atiku Abubakar on the 2023 presidential elections sating that has his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to decide.
Yesterday, it was widely reported that Governor Wike had...
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has claimed that his predecessor Rotimi Amaechi flew a government Legacy 600 private jet to Germany and abandoned it there in a development that has so far cost over €3m.
In 2015, Governor Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took over from Governor Amaechi, who had defected to...
Governor Nyesom Wike has given the federal government 48 hours to unveil the invaders of Justice Mary Odili’s Abuja home after she was subjected to a humiliating raid on her house over the weekend.
Justice Odili's the second most senior judge in the country, is the wife of former Rivers State governor Chief Peter Odili. On...
MEMBERS of Nigeria's Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) are meeting in Kaduna today to debate the vexed issue of value added tax (VAT) that has become a hot potato over the last week as southern states have won the legal right to localise it.
Up until now, VAT has been paid into the federal coffers but in August, a...
NIGERIA'S ongoing value added tax (Vat) debate took a further twist today after Nigeria's Court of Appeal decided to keep the Federal Inland Revenue Services (Firs) as the recipient of all monies pending the determination of all legal issues on the matter.
Over the last month, Nigeria has been caught up in a complex debate...
GOMBE State government has appealed to governors of Nigeria's 17 southern states to reconsider their recent decision to make Value Added Tax (VAT) a state source of revenue as they need to be their brother's keeper.
Up until now, VAT has been paid into the federal coffers but last month, a high court issued an order...
NIGERIA'S Supreme Court has restrained the federal government and its agencies from ceding 17 oil wells to Imo State after the Rivers State government successfully challenged the handing over of the facilities located in Akri and Mgbede communities.
Imo and Rivers states share a boundary and the 17 wells are located in the...
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