•Speaker Martins Amaewhule and Governor Siminalayi Fubara The Rivers State Government says it is yet to receive the resolutions of the State House of Assembly regarding the Supreme Court’s judgment delivered on February 28, 2025. On Monday, the Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule-led assembly had during its sitting issued Governor Siminalayi Fubara a 4...
•Speaker Amaewhule and Governor Fubara Governor Siminalayi Fubara is set for a showdown with the Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly as he rejected the 48-hour ultimatum issued by the lawmakers to present the 2025 budget. The governor also dismissed the assembly’s opposition to his directive for outgoing local government chairm...
•Lagos Assembly A group under the All Progressives Congress in Lagos, Progressives Alliance, has accused the Lagos State House of Assembly of stage-managing the alleged Monday invasion of the assembly by officers of the officers of the Department of State Security Services. The group in a statement today claimed yesterday’s event was stage-man...
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have condemned the invasion of the Assembly complex by operatives of the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police today, describing it as a “rape of democracy, an aberration, and a national embarrassment.” During a plenary session attended by 36 lawmakers, the legislators demanded an expl...
•Obasa and Meranda Embattled Lagos lawmaker, Mudashiru Obasa, has approached the court to challenge his removal as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. The lawmaker dragged the Assembly and the new Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, before a State High Court in Ikeja, claiming that the lawmakers were wrong to have removed him when [&helli...
•Governor Umo Eno 32 days after Governor Umo Eno dissolved the Akwa Ibom State Executive Council and hosted the immediate past commissioners to a valedictory dinner where he thanked and honoured them for their services to the state, the State House of Assembly received a list of 27 nominees submitted by the governor for screening […]
•Amaewhule and Fubara The Speaker Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly has described the recent appointments made by the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara as illegal. The lawmakers who sat at their chamber located in the Auditorium of the Legislative Quarters in Port Harcourt, condemned the appointments of some individuals as c...
•Wike and Governor Fubara The Speaker Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly in Rivers State loyal to FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has called on the police to arrest persons parading themselves as the caretaker committee chairmen of the 23 local government areas in the state. The lawmakers further asked the police to immediately withdraw their ...
•Justice Theresa Chikeka Imo Chief Judge Justice Theresa Chukwuemeka-Chikeka has been granted an interim injunction on the allegation of falsification of age levelled against her by the House of Assembly. Chukwuemeka-Chikeka dragged the Attorney-General of Imo State, Speaker and the National Judicial Council to court, reports The Nation. In an...
•Amotekun Corps The Osun State House of Assembly today confirmed the appointments of Wale Abbas as the chairman, Osun Amotekun Board and Adekunle Omoyele as the Corps Commander respectively. The confirmations followed the nomination of Abbas and Omoyele by the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, on July 5. The governor had forwarded their names t...