CLON LESLEY

 The Hon. Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Hon. Barr Sylvanus Nwankwo (JP) appeared before the House Committee of Chieftaincy and Community Affairs to defend the ministry's 2018 budget proposal at the Rivers State House of Assembly.  The committee has Hon Granville Tekenari Wellington as Chairman, The house minority leader, Hon. Benibo Anabraba Esq as member, Glory Adanma Woke is the Committee Clerk, While Tom West Esq is the Committee Attorney. While speaking to news men after the defence, Hon. Sylvanus hailed the committee for doing a thorough job. "It has been a tedious process, but in the end the committee has seen that we have done a job at the defence." He went ahead to express satisfaction that the appropriated budget amount enough to ensure smooth running of the Ministry and promise judicious deployment of the funds.

“Shut up and sit down”. Mum barked at me as I made futile efforts to explain. She was obviously angry; a very rare occurrence.

I shut my eyes, tried to block the thoughts and wished that sleep would come. It was 3a.m and I had not been able to get as much as a good 5 minutes kip. These thoughts just wouldn’t go away, they kept gnawing away at my guts. I could practically feel it. So I opened my eyes again and resumed counting of ceilings; I could almost tell how many pieces of nail there were holding each board. The questions continued to play themselves out in mind as I rolled from one side to the other, then to default position on my back again. The argument continued inside of me; a heated argument between my mind and my heart and there was no sign of truce anywhere in sight. I just continued to toss around while the battle raged. ‘What do I do, where do I begin, we’ve been friends for so long how do I tell her now how I feel about her? This is going to ruin everything. It’s a risk I can’t take. We’ve come a long way and I don’t want to lose her friendship just because I couldn’t control my emotion; ju...

River State Government will on Thursday present the 2018 budget before the State House of Assembly. Governor Wike in a letter sent to the Rivers state House of Assembly and read by the speaker of the House Rt Hon Ikuinyi Owaji Ibani  noted that the budget will be presented at 12 noon while Similarly the Rivers state house of assembly has deferred debate on the Rivers state waterways authority bill 2018 and the Kenule Beeson Saro Wiwa Bill 2018 House adjourned to Thursday 11th January, 2018.

BY INNOCENT CHIKADIBIA Emancipation is the act of setting somebody or a group of people free from slavery, subjugation and any form of undemocratic influences in a democratic setting like Nigeria.

By INNOCENT CHIKADIBIA Fraud in this context is the inability to approach what has been said by the promisor in a way that would convince the promisee even though the promise is not fulfilled 100℅ but a remarkable and obvious attempts made to a reasonable level in pursuit of the fulfilment of the subject matter (promises).