Amid ongoing tension over the withholding of local government allocations following a federal high court order, Rt. Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct bye-elections to fill 27 vacant seats left by defected members of the Assembly. T...
•Senator Elisha Abbo A former senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Senator Ishaku Abbo has declared that Nigerian democracy cannot grow if the judiciary is not overhauled to deliver justice and not injustice. Abbo who was sacked this year by the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja after earlier winning his case at the Tribunal to ...
•Ekiti State House of Assembly The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has criticised a planned trip by members of the State House of Assembly to Canada, labelling it as “insensitive to the plight of the common man.” The spokesperson for the PDP caretaker committee in the state, Jackson Adebayo, condemned the proposed retreat [&helli...
•Tinubu and Buhari The Special Adviser to the President on Public Communications and Orientation, Sunday Dare, yesterday hailed President Bola Tinubu’s role in the emergence of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Before dislodging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government in 2015, Buhari ran unsuccessfully for presidency in the ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has mandated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to relocate all its local government offices out of the premises of the 774 council headquarters in Nigeria to neutral grounds. Most INEC offices at the local government level are domiciled inside the council Secretariats, w...
•Nigerian Senate The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) says the 10th National Assembly has less than 10 percent of female membership, describing it as embarrassing to Nigeria. The NILDS representative, Titilayo Daniel, made the position in Sagamu, Ogun State, at a Town Hall meeting on female legislators constitu...
•Governor Fubara (middle) during the Thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt yesterday Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, yesterday, revealed that he discovered he was being ambushed by the peace agreement he signed alongside the faction of the state House of Assembly that planned to oust him from office. Fubara made the revelation during...
•Martin Amaewhule A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out a suit filed by 27 lawmakers, led by Mr Martin Amaewhule, in the Rivers House of Assembly against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Justice Peter Lifu, in a ruling, struck out the suit after it was withdrawn by the lawmakers who were […]
•Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has cautioned the judiciary against setting Rivers State on fire. The warning came in the wake of today’s judgement, wherein a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to halt all payments to the state. In a statement today by his media adviser, Paul […]
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, today said concerns over the Federal High Court decision that restricted the release of state allocations is “the least” of his problems. Governor Fubara stated during a special thanksgiving service organised by the state government to celebrate his administration’s resilien...