Natasha: INEC receives tainted constituents’ recall petition

Natasha: INEC receives tainted constituents’ recall petition By Yekini Jimoh The Independent National Electoral Commission has received the petition of constituents of the Kogi Central Senatorial District for the recall of the suspended Senator representing the District in the National Assembly. The petition was submitted with over 250,000 constituents’ signatures, out of about 480,000 registered […]

Gov Fubara reportedly relocates to Bayelsa State after suspension

Gov Fubara reportedly relocates to Bayelsa State after suspension L-R: Fubara, Diri By Enioluwa Adeniyi The suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, following the declaration of a state of emergency in the state, has reportedly moved with his family to Bayelsa State. Naija News reports that the development comes after President Bola Tinubu’s decisive […]

Rivers Sole Administrator Ibot-Ete Ibas assumes duty

Rivers Sole Administrator Ibot-Ete Ibas assumes duty Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (rtd) at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 By Joshua Ogbologugo The newly appointed Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibot-Ete Ibas, has assumed duty. The former Naval Chief arrived at the Government House, Port Harcourt, at noon on […]

Text of Tinubu’s speech declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State

TEXT OF THE BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, DECLARING STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RIVERS STATE ON TUESDAY 18 MARCH 2025. Fellow Nigerians, I feel greatly disturbed at the turn we have come to regarding the political crisis in Rivers State. Like many of you, I have watched with concern […]

Tinubu declares a state of emergency in Rivers State – Appoints retired Vice Admiral Ibok Ibas as sole administrator

Appoints Vice Admiral Ibokkete Ibas (rtd) as Administrator Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday evening declared a state of emergency in Rivers State over the crisis rocking both the executive and legislative arms of government in the state. In a 12-minute national broadcast to the nation, the President said during the six-month […]

“I fully understand the impact of what is happening in Rivers State” – Peter Obi

By Oladipo Abiola The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has appealed for an end to the political crisis rocking Rivers State. The former Anambra State Governor, in a post on Tuesday via his ?? account, submitted that the people of Rivers State are the real losers in the political drama which has engulfed […]

Multiple shots fired in Rivers as gunmen allegedly attack Fubara’s supporters

Multiple shots fired in Rivers as gunmen allegedly attack Fubara’s supporters By Davies Iheamnachor No fewer than eight people have been shot by some angry individuals identified to be members of a local vigilante group in Elele town, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. However, police in the state said that four people were […]

Group Slams Abia PDP over Wabara’s purported expulsion, says joke going too far

Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Umuahia The Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has been flayed over its purported expulsion of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara. The former Senate President was on Tuesday expelled from the state PDP after being placed on suspension since February 11, 2025, even though the national […]

Igweship tussle: Soludo stops Anambra monarch from parading self as king

David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has stopped a supposed monarch of Oba community in Idemili South Local Government Area, Augustine Chinedu Emelube, from parading himself as monarch. The state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Hon Tonycollins Nwabunwanne, who made the declaration on behalf of the governor, said the election […]

Rivers: I never called Supreme Court judgement reckless – Peter Obi

Peter Obi By John Ogunsemore The 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied referring to the Supreme Court judgement on the political crisis in Rivers State as “reckless”. Obi made the clarification in a statement shared on X on Wednesday. Some media outlets reported that the former Anambra governor made the […]

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