Rivers
Rivers Assembly passes resolution asking Governor Fubara to re-present 2024 budget
The Rivers House of Assembly has passed a resolution urging Governor Siminialaye Fubara to re-present the state 2024 budget and the medium-term expenditure framework for consideration. This followed the adoption of a motion by the speaker, Martin Amaewhu, during the 90th plenary of the House at the legislators’ quarters, Port Harcourt, on Tuesday. Presenting the […]
JUST IN: NADECO warns Fubara over implementation of Tinubu’s 8-point resolution
A US-based pro-democracy group, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) USA, has sent a serious warning to Rivers state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, over the implementation of the eight-point resolution with FCT minister Nyesom Wike. Politics Nigeria reports that President Bola Tinubu had supervised the signing of a controversial eight-point resolution between Governor Fubara and Wike following […]
JUST IN: Port Harcourt Refinery Resumes Operations
The Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) in Rivers State has resumed operations, aligning with the federal government’s commitment to produce refined goods at the plant by December 2023. Initially shut down in 2019, the combined processing capacity of Nigeria’s four refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna stood at 445,000 barrels per day (bpd). However, […]
Rivers Governor, Fubara, Fails To Withdraw Suit Against Pro-Wike Lawmakers
The recent peace accord between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and former Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, seems not to be fully implemented as the governor appears hesitant to withdraw a lawsuit against the State House of Assembly. The Abuja agreement, brokered in hopes of ending the escalating political tension between the two leaders, stipulated that both […]
Fubara Approves N100,000 Christmas Bonus For Rivers Workers
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has approved the sum of N100,000 for each civil servant in the State. The bonus will go to the millions of workers in the different Ministries, Departments, And Agencies. The State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr. Joe Johnson said the approval was given on Tuesday for “immediate implementation to […]
Your intervention in Rivers, Ondo crises not constitutional | Seats of 27 lawmakers remain vacant – Falana to Tinubu
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says President Bola Tinubu “has no constitutional role” to resolve the political crises in Rivers and Ondo states. In a statement on Tuesday, Falana said while Tinubu may intervene in the crises rocking the states, his intervention must always be grounded in the provisions […]
We don’t recognise 27 Rivers House members who dumped PDP — APC Assembly Forum
The All Progressives Congress, APC, States Assembly Forum, ASAF, has declared that it was yet to recognise as its members the 27 Rivers State House of Assembly members who dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to join the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. The Forum (ASAF) is the umbrella body of APC state assemblies […]
JUST IN: Wike, others’ll be sanctioned at the right time, says PDP chairman
The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Umar Damagum, said a former Rivers State Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is not above the party. Damagum who stated this while responding to questions at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday hinted that the party leadership will sanction Wike […]
Rivers crisis: PDP insists on fresh polls to replace 25 defectors
The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has insisted that fresh elections be conducted to fill the 25 seats allegedly vacated by 25 of its lawmakers in the Rivers State Assembly. This was part of the decisions taken at an emergency meeting of the NWC in Abuja on Tuesday. The acting […]
BREAKING: Resolutions of Rivers political crisis unacceptable and unconstitutional, says Clark
Edwin Clark, convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has faulted the meeting by President Bola Tinubu on the feud between Nyesom Wike and Siminalayi Fubara. Over the past few weeks, Fubara, governor of Rivers, and Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), have been at loggerheads over the political control of the […]