Yearly Archives

2018

Fashola dragged to court over spending on power

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Minister of Power, Works and Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN over “failure to account for the spending on the privatisation of the electricity sector and the exact…

Ikpeazu: a beacon of hope in social investment

During the electioneering campaigns in 2015, one of the promises made by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu PhD was that as a Governor he would hold the hand of the weakest in the society and give them hope for a better tomorrow. The life history of…

Ikpeazu: The beacon of hope in good governance

When we decided to down tool of over a decade of agitation for good governance and positive change, and opposition to bad governance, stealing and drifts in statecraft, so as to give vent to an emerging development-oriented phenomenon in…

Rivers LG poll: PDP clears 23 council seats

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared  the 23 chairmanship positions contested on Saturday in the the local government area election conducted by the state Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC). RSIEC Chairman, Justice Chukwunenye…

Contempt: Court jails Uwazuruike one month

The founder of MASSOB/BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has been sentenced to one month in prison by a judge of an Owerri high court in Imo State for disobeying the order of the court to appear before in a case in which he is plaintiff.…

EFCC re-opens investigation on N21.7bn IPP project

The Economic and Financal Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reopened probe into an Independent Power Plant (IPP) project contract in Oghara, Delta State, valued at N21,740,000,000. The move followed a fresh petition by a youth group, Empowerment…