Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has begun a series of town-hall meetings in communities to explain how each local council area is benefiting from the N509 billion he said his administration received in two years. This seems to have galvanised and deepened democratic governance in the Niger Delta area as rural dwellers now shoot pointblank questions at the governor. Already, contractors are under the heat to justify some of their decisions that had hit the wrong side of the...- full story