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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rivers crisis: Pro-Wike lawmakers reject 2024 budget
The Martins Amaehwule-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly has rejected the passage of the 2024 budget by the four members of the assembly led by Edison Ehie. It was reported that the four-man House of Assembly last…