•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...
•Anengi Barasua of Bonny LGA handing over to the administrator The immediate past local government chairmen in Rivers State, who were removed by the Supreme Court on Friday, have complied with Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s directive to hand over to the Heads of Local Government Administration (HLGAs) in their respective councils. The Supreme Co...
•Nyesom Wike The Supreme Court ruling on the crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly has ended impunity in the oil-rich state, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said today. The apex court in its ruling today, barred the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Accountant General of the Federation and other agencies from releasing funds […]...
Federal lawmakers from opposition political parties have thrown their weight behind the River State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, insisting that he will continue to drive the wheel of governance in the state until the case on legality of decampment of 27 lawmakers which is presently at Appeal Court is decided. Spokesman of the federal lawmakers...
The Supreme Court, today, nullified the outcome of the Local Government Elections that were held in Rivers State on October 5, 2024. The apex court upheld an appeal that was brought before it by the All Progressives Congress, APC, reports Vanguard. In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, the […]
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara has said that God allowed the ongoing political crisis in the state to give him and the people of the freedom. The governor spoke last night when the Primate of the Anglican Communion Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Henry Ndukauba, led other bishops to [&hell...
•Reverend Father Livinus Maurice Gunmen have abducted a Catholic Priest of Port Harcourt Diocese, Reverend Father Livinus Maurice, alongside two others. Fr. Maurice, who is the Parish Priest of St Patrick’s Catholic, Isokpo in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state was abducted alongside two others whose identities were not disclosed while...
•Pirates Suspected pirates hijacked a passenger boat carrying 20 travellers along the Bonny-Okrika waterways in Rivers State yesterday. This came as the Bonny Local Government Council said it had rescued nine of the passengers, while a frantic search is on to rescue the others, reports The PUNCH. The Bonny LG Chairman, Anengi Claude-Wilcox, sa...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today, called on the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), to immediately investigate the cause of the fire outbreak and oil spill from Manifold Well 8/ BUG 008 in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 18, Bukuma (Agum) in Rivers State. It tasked the agency to submit a detailed report to […]
•Police Tensions flared in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, today as police barricaded the road leading to the Peoples Democratic Party’s secretariat on Aba Road. The move followed reports that the Acting Executive Committee, formed after a court nullified the elected executive, planned to take over the secretariat complex, reports Channel...
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