•Governor Siminalayi Fubara The Federal High Court, Abuja today nullified the N800bn 2024 budget signed into law by the Rivers State governor, Simi Fubara. In December, the governor had presented an N800bn 2024 Appropriation Bill to a faction of the state House of Assembly, comprising four lawmakers, reports The PUNCH. Following the passage of...
•Speaker Martin Amaewhule The Rivers State House of Assembly today ordered the nine commissioners who resigned their positions last to ‘take a bow and go.’ On Monday, the parliament led by Rt Hon Martin Amaewhule invited the commissioner-nominees for screening as part of the 8-point peace agenda signed by Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State [&...
•Transformer Residents of Ojoto, Wokoma, Elechi and Ekwe streets in Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt City Council of Rivers State, have been thrown into darkness after some armed men vandalised a transformer in the area. Yesterday morning, the residents woke up to find out that the transformer located at Elechi/Wokom Street had been tampered with [...
•Wike dancing away Amid the rising cases of kidnapping and robbery in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom WIke, has been busy with Rivers State politics, reports The PUNCH. A few years ago, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, was perceived as the safest city anyone could wish to live in. […]
The Rivers State House of Assembly is to re-screen and re-confirm nine former Commissioners who resigned from the state executive council on Wednesday. This is contained in a statement signed by the Clerk of the house, Mr Emeka Amadi, today in Port Harcourt. The clerk said the commissioners include Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice...
Amid the political crisis rocking Rivers State, three Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidates who contested in the 2023 general elections for seats of different constituencies in the State House of Assembly have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with their supporters. This was as Mr. Lawrence Chuku, a former Caretaker Chairman o...
•Boat mishap No fewer than 11 persons including kids, were reported dead in a boat mishap along the Andoni-Bonny coastal waters in Rivers State yesterday. The accident was said to have involved two passenger boats that plied the routes, reports Vanguard. Some of the victims were said to be from Ngo town, Ataba, and Isiama […]
•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...
•Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, visited the National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Victor Giadom, raising speculation of another round of political realignment. Wike, who arrived in Port Harcourt, was hosted by Giadom in Bera, his country home in Gokana Local GovÂernment Area...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Nyesom Wike The political crisis in Rivers State may be experiencing a lull going into the yuletide, but there are important takeaways. There is no gainsaying the fact that the intervention of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the feud between the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, and his estranged polit...
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