•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu today urged the Senate to consider and confirm, 11 nominees for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court. Tinubu’s letter of request was read at plenary by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The 11 nominees had been recommended by the National Judicial Council for Tinubu’s approval to fill the vacant positions...
•Falana and Tinubu Amid the controversy trailing the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis rocking Rivers State, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that the President cannot reinstate 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. In a statement yesterday, Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), sai...
South-South Leader, Edwin Clark has described the communique issued at the end of the reconciliatory meeting by President Bola Tinubu to resolve the crisis in Rivers State as baffling, appalling and unacceptable to the people, especially, the ljaw ethnic nationality. In a press conference in Abuja today, the elder statesman, threatens legal ac...
Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan has declared that the truce and declaration by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Rivers State crisis was unconstitutional. The former member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council said according to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), it w...
After weeks of dramatic twists in Rivers State, the political gladiators in the oil-rich South-South state reached a truce yesterday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Villa in Abuja. The meeting had in attendance Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, who is now the Minister of the Federal Capital [&he...
•Wike, Fubara and Tinubu President Bola Tinubu is currently having a closed door meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara at the Presidential Villa Abuja. Fubara was accompanied to the seat of power by the former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili including other stakeholders from the state. The president is apparently ...
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...
•Falana and Tinubu A Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, today, asked President Bola Tinubu to stop parading himself as the Minister of Petroleum Resources. This, Falana said, is necessary because the president was not screened by the National Assembly before assuming the role, reports Daily Trust. He spoke in Abuja at the public presentati...
The World Bank has said the Tinubu-led federal government may still be paying for petrol subsidy as fuel prices in Nigeria are currently not cost-reflective. It said Nigerians should pay about N750 per litre as against the current price of N650 in some places. Petrol is already selling at around N690 in Kano and Sokoto, […]
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has sacked the six Managing Directors and Directors-General of parastatals in the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development. This was disclosed in a statement today by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Ajuri Ngelale. The affected directors include the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Nigerian A...

