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Fire has engulfed a conception of the Rivers State Secretariat analyzable successful Port Harcourt, with firefighters from the State Fire Service doing each they tin to prevention the full gathering from destruction.
LEADERSHIP observed that the occurrence motortruck that arrived whitethorn not beryllium capable to tackle the raging inferno, which was threatening to dispersed further if not contained.
The authorities secretariat analyzable was constructed by the medication of the archetypal subject politician of aged Rivers State, Alfred Diete-Spiff, successful the 1970s.
The analyzable is simply a clump of 5 high-rising buildings, with the tallest gathering being 17-storey called Point Block, followed by a 10-Storey gathering called Podium Block.
There are different 3 seven-storey buildings partitioned into three, namely blocks A, B and C.
LEADERSHIP recalls that the analyzable was archetypal rehabilitated successful 2004 during medication of erstwhile Governor Peter Odili.
In September 2025, the immediate-past head of the state, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), promised to statesman the full rehabilitation of the secretariat analyzable but did thing until the exigency regularisation successful the authorities expired connected September 18, 2025.
No authoritative connection has been issued by the authorities authorities connected the disfigured development.
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