•Wike and Fubara There is palpable tension in Rivers State and other parts of the Niger Delta region as speculations of plans by some powerful forces to foist emergency rule in the oil-rich state heightened at the weekend. It was reliably gathered that the new fear was occasioned by the raging acrimony between the camps […]
As the crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assemble unfolds, party chieftains, lawyers and other stakeholders have continued to express divergent views which indicate that the feud may not end any time soon. Although the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is working assiduously to resolve the political crisi...
The President of the Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has expressed dismay that President Bola Tinubu has refused to caution the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over the political crisis the latter has allegedly fuelled in Rivers State. Okaba stated that for the president to remain quiet while Wike was caus...
•Solomon Bob A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Honourable Solomon Bob, says the political crisis rocking the state is an embarrassment, especially when the economic importance of the state to the country is considered. Speaking to Channels Television, Honourable Bob said the demolition of the Rivers State House of Ass...
•Fubara and Wike The Rivers State political crisis deepened further yesterday as six commissioners loyal to ex-governor Nyesom Wike resigned from the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. This was as the two factions of the split state House of Assembly held separate sittings yesterday. The commissioners, who tendered their resignation were t...
•Prof. Zacheaus Adangor The Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacheaus Adangor, has resigned. His resignation was communicated in a letter dated November 14, 2023, and addressed to Governor Sim Fubara. He noted that his exit from office was based on personal principles. “I hereby give Your Excellency Notice of m...
•Siminalayi Fubara The Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N800bn into law. Fubara, who presented the bill yesterday, December 13, to a four-member House of Assembly led by Speaker Edison Ehie, was said to have signed the budget today at the Government House, Port Harcourt.
•Fubara and Wike A fresh twist crept into the political tension in River States, yesterday, as no fewer than 10 bulldozers charged into the House of Assembly complex and reduced the imposing structures to rubbles. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, said the decision to demolish and rebuild the c...
•Adoki Tonye Adoki, one of the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has refuted report that he has returned to his former party. Adoki and 26 other members of the 32-member crisis-rocked Assembly had on Monday announced their [&hellip...
•Tinubu Amidst the cold war between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and his estranged benefactor cum Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Honourable Yekini Nabena, has advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to rise above narrow pol...
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