•The protesting workers Public primary school teachers, area councils’ workers as well as medical staff at the primary health centers across the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday staged a peaceful protest over non implementation of the N70,000 national minimum wage and other entitlements by the council chairmen...
•Wike and Fubara There is no breakthrough yet in the effort to reconcile the warring personalities in the Rivers State political crisis. Governor Siminilayi Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu and all the state legislators were suspended for six months under the state of emergency imposed on the state on March 20 by President Bola Tinubu [&helli...
•Okaba and Wike The President of the Ijaw Nation Congress, Professor Benjamin Okaba, has described the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, as a careless speaker who could say anything under the influence of alcohol. Prof Okaba said this in response to Wike’s claim that the Ijaws are a minority ethnic group in […]
There is growing political tension in Bayelsa State, ahead of the April 12 mega rally for appreciation of President Ahmed Tinubu and in support of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. The organisers are also planning to inaugurate a political group: ‘The new Associates’, Bayelsa chapter, reports Daily Trust. However, G...
•Rotimi Amaechi A former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared that the feud between the suspended governor of the oil-rich state, Siminalayi Fubara, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is about money sharing. Amaechi said this in an interview with DW today. The ex-governor also said the emergency rule...
•Wike and Anyanwu The spokesperson for the Opposition Coalition, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has declared that the recent Supreme Court judgment regarding the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has given the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) the authority to remove him without the possibility of legal...
•Rivers Assembly Complex under construction The administration of suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has strongly refuted claims that he failed to prevent militant threats and attacks on oil installations in the state. In a statement issued yesterday, Chief Press Secretary to Fubara, Nelson Chukwudi, described the allegations...
•Nyesom Wike The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost its new national secretariat located at the Central Area, Abuja, as well as Wadata Plaza, to a revocation exercise by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike. Consequently, the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP was summoned to a meeting by the acting National Chai...
•Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned that it may suspend or expel the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over alleged anti-party activities. The party, led by its Acting Chairman, Nname Robinson Ewor, accused Wike of actions that...
•Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revoked the land allocation for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat in Abuja. The decision was conveyed in a letter dated March 13, 2025, titled “Notice of Right of Occupancy with File No: MISC 81346 in Respect of Plot No: 243 within […]

