•Tinubu A former Senate President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adolphus Wabara, yesterday, faulted President Bola Tinubu’s decision to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State. In a strongly worded statement yesterday, Wabara insisted that Tinubu’s actions violated the fundamental principles of Nig...
•Wike, Fubara, Tinubu A Nigerian pro-democracy coalition, Concerned Nigerians in Defence of Democratic Governance, has petitioned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), urging urgent intervention over what it describes as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s moves to undermine democracy in the country following the recent development...
•Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) Nigerian governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, yesterday, declined to comment on recent political developments in the country, saying their hands are tied. This is coming less than four days after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended Governo...
•Naira notes The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has announced the release of withheld local government allocations, assuring that necessary steps will be taken to ensure the prompt payment of workers’ salaries. Speaking during a meeting with Heads of Local Government Administrators in Port Harcourt, Ibas described the gathe...
•Tinubu, Fubara and Fagbemi Youth leaders from different parts of Nigeria under the aegis of Ethnic Youth Leaders have urged the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to apologise to Governor Siminalayi Fubara for falsely accusing him of being behind the bombings in Rivers State. According to the youth leaders, it was curi...
•Tinubu and Fubara A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria has condemned the declaration of a state of emergency in the Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu, describing it as a threat to democracy and an unjustifiable overreach of executive power. Speaking at a press briefing in Port Harcourt yesterday, Christian Onyegbule, repr...
•Tinubu The Nigerians in Diaspora Association (NDA-USA) has condemned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as a “war against Nigerians and the international community.” The association rejected the emergency rule, which suspended the Rivers State governor, his deputy, and all elected ...
•House of Representatives and Tinubu Despite opposition, the National Assembly yesterday approved President Bola Tinubu’s proclamation of a state of emergency in Rivers State through voice vote, as lawyers queried the determination of the constitutional provision that mandates two-thirds votes by each chamber for such approval. President Bo...
•Audu Ogbeh Nigeria’s former Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbeh has faulted the voice vote that members of the National Assembly used to approve the emergency rule proclamation of President Bola Tinubu in Rivers State. “Ayes and nays do not give us a clear picture of the position and the moral authority of individual senators or members […...
•Monday Okpebholo Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo, has distanced himself from the stance of other South-South governors regarding the proposed state of emergency in Rivers State. Speaking in Benin today, Okpebholo stated that he was neither consulted nor informed about the decision to oppose President Bola Tinubu’s potential declaration o...
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