Tag: Nyesom Wike

‘Defaulters Risk Two-Year Imprisonment,’ Court Outlaws Prostitution In Nigeria

Ganiyu Amodu

Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Wednesday, dismissed a suit seeking fundamental rights for commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to operate without intimidation from security agencies. In his judgment, the judge held that the prostitutes have no legal rights to enjoy under any known law or the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Justice Omotosho held further that the commercial sex workers were, therefore, liable to be arrested and prosecuted for a jail term of two years under the criminal law…

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Who-Gets-What: Full List Of Ministers And Designations

Ganiyu Amodu

The Presidency on Wednesday unveiled the designation of the ministers that will work with President Bola Tinubu. Below is the full list of the ministers and their designations Minister Of Communications, Innovation And Digital Economy: Bosun Tijani READ ALSO: JUST IN: Tinubu Retains Petroleum Ministry, Assigns Portfolios To Ministers Kenya Reinstates Fuel Subsidy After Months of Violent Protests BREAKING: NNPC Borrows $3bn Emergency Loan Lagos Muslims Protest, Petition Lawmakers Over Sanwo-Olu’s Cabinet List Minister Of State, Environment And Ecological Management: Ishak Salako Minister Of Finance And Coordinating Minister Of The…

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Come To Rivers To Meet Me Or Lose, Wike Sounds Latest Warning To Atiku

Efe Wellington

“The days of playing Father Christmas with the votes of Rivers State are over,” the governor who appears ready to play a “spoiler” declares   Governor of oil-rich Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has given latest warning to presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to come over to meet him or suffer defeat in the 2023 election. Platforms Africa reports that Wike who spoke for the umpteenth time on the riveting crisis within the party, since he lost the bid for the ticket to represent the party at…

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Call Me Mr. Trouble, Wike Says He’s Not An Ordinary Politician

Efe Wellington

  “It is true I have just one vote, but based on the services I have rendered, Rivers people will listen to me,” the governor says as he gives N2billion to youths   Rivers State Governor, Nyeson Wike, has continued to boast of his achievements in government, warning that anyone who toyed with him would get his fingers burnt. Wike in another outing, on Tuesday afternoon while inaugurating the dualised Ogunbali Road in Port Harcourt, declared that his second name was trouble, stating that he would neither run away from any…

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JUST IN: PDP Splits, Wike Leads Southern Caucus As Crisis Degenerates

Gbenga Adeoti

The internal crisis rocking the Nigeria’s leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reportedly worsened. The party, Platforms Africa reports, has been in the ctisis since when governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike lost the presidential ticket of the party for next year’s presidential election, during its primaries in May this year. Nigerian Tribune, oldest surviving newspaper in the country, is reporting that the party has split down the middle along North-South divide, even ahead of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for Thursday this week, to review the state of…

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EXCLUSIVE: Oil firms, others fret as Nigeria, Rivers’ Tax crisis worsens

Efe Wellington

Governor threatens shut down of company-defaulters of orders to pay to Rivers state, says Lagos collected N46.4bn in June, got N9.3bn, Kano collected N2.8bn, received N2.8bn   The cold war between the Nigerian government and oil-rich Rivers state has set jitters down the spines of business concerns, including oil marketing and supporting services firms, who are alredy caught in the web of the crisis, Platforms Africa exclusively reports. The fastest growing Pan-Africa newspapaer (Platforms Africa) with cutting-edge reportage of energy, shows  that the crisis, which has now dove-tailwd into a…

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