•Speaker Martins Amaewhule and Governor Siminalayi Fubara The Executive Arm of the Rivers State Government has accused the State House of Assembly of frustrating Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s efforts to implement the ruling of the Supreme Court on the state’s political crisis. The Commissioner for Information, Joe Johnson, stated this today in ...
Angry Ijaw women of Kalabari extraction yesterday vandalised giant billboards bearing the pictures of Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. The billboards which were erected at the junction leading to Abalama was in honour of Wike who is being hosted to a grand reception by the Ijaw [&hel...
•Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara A pro-Governor Siminalayi Fubara group, Supreme Council for Sim Worldwide, has cautioned against any attempt to impeach the Rivers State governor, warning that such a move could trigger widespread unrest. Addressing a news briefing in Port Harcourt today, a leader of the group, Esezi Obilor Rukani, sai...
•Pro-Wike Rivers lawmakers The Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly, yesterday, asked Governor Siminalayi Fubara to channel his invitation to the members properly and not through social media. The reaction followed the invitation to the Assembly to a meeting with the governor at the Government House, on Monday (today), reports T...
•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...

