•Late Herbert Wigwe Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has bemoaned the death of the Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank, Dr. Herbert Wigwe, describing his demise as a disastrous loss. Fubara spoke exclusively to our correspondent at the Government House in Port Harcourt yesterday. The governor said he was yet to get over the [...
•Siminalayi Fubara Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has sworn in nine re-nominated commissioners in the state. The swearing-in ceremony was conducted at the state Executive Council Chambers of the Government House in Port Harcourt. The commissioners had resigned to show their loyalty to Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capita...
•Siminalayi Fubara The Rivers State House of Assembly has voted to override Governor Siminalayi Fubara and pass four new bills into law. This happened during plenary today at the House of Assembly Quarters after the Speaker of the House, Martin Amaewhule read four letters addressed to him by the governor wherein he declined his assent [&hellip...
•Fubara The Abuja division of the Federal High Court today ordered the remand of five Port Harcourt-based men arraigned by the Federal Government on terrorism charges at Kuje Prison, Abuja. They were arraigned on a seven-count terrorism charge for invading, vandalizing, and burning down Rivers State House of Assembly in the wake of the politic...
•Fubara The crisis rocking Rivers State took a new twist yesterday as the lawmakers accused the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, of not presenting the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and the 2024 Appropriation Bill to the lawmakers. The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, stated this during the first plenary of...
•Rivers ex-Commissioner for Works, George-Kelly Alabo (middle) and others at the luncheon today The protracted feud between Rivers State Governor, Siminalaye Fubara; and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, may have been publicly resolved with the “intervention” of President Bola Tinubu last December but the camaraderie hitherto shared by the two gla...
•Siminalayi Fubara Less than twenty-four hours after his staunch ally and speaker of the House of Assembly, resigned as a lawmaker and as speaker, the governor of Rivers State, Siminilayi Fubara, has promised that no political crisis will be able to shorten the term of his administration. Fubara reassured that he is not arrogant about [&hellip...
Members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) marched in solidarity for the recently embattled Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara today. Also included in the march were students, youths, civil society organisations, labour unions, and members of the Hausa community in the state, reports Channels TV. The...
•Wike, Fubara and Tinubu Damian Okoro, the counsel for Governor Siminalaye Fubara, is yet to withdraw a suit filed to restrain the Rivers State House of Assembly from impeaching his client. At the Isiokpo Division of the Rivers State High Court, under the auspices of Justice Ben Whyte, when the case with suit number IHC/230/2023 […]
•Wike, Fubara and Tinubu The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, has confirmed that Governor Siminialayi Fubara signed the resolution agreement at the meeting summoned by President Bola Tinubu in Abuja. Johnson confirmed the authenticity of Fubara’s signature on the resolution document in an interview ...

