Police Command in Kano State has intensifying efforts to tackle potential security threats before, during and after Sallah celebrations in the state. Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Bakori, said this while addressing officers and men of the command in Kano on Wednesday. Bakori emphasised the need for vigilance and proactive...
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President Bola Tinubu has said he declared a state of emergency in Rivers because of the lingering political crisis in the state and attendant effects on democracy, security and well being of the citizens. The President, who stated this in a national broadcast on Tuesday said he felt greatly...
The Spokesman for the House of Representatives, Rep. Akin Rotimi (APC-Ekitit state) has said the House of Representatives will on Wednesday, debate the state of emergency declared on Rivers by President Bola Tinubu. In a statement on Tuesday, Rotimi said that President Bola Tinubu had officially written the house...
Rivers State Governor, Siminilayi Fubara, has urged the citizens in the state to remain peaceful and law-abiding in the face of the state of emergency declared in the state. Fubara made the remark in an address to the people of the state on Tuesday in Port Harcourt after the...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has described the declared state of emergency in Rivers as an “assault on democracy”. Abubakar, in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja, also described it as a “political manipulation and action taken in bad faith”. He alleged that anyone paying attention to the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the declaration of State of emergency in Rivers, stating that the president has no power to suspend democratically elected governor. The party stated this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba on Tuesday in Abuja. President Bola Tinubu had...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the revocation of the Right of Occupancy (RofO) to its national secretariat property by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) as an “attempt to stifle opposition parties in the country”. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, reacting to the development in...
National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Ajibola Basiru, has welcomed President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu, in a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday, declared the emergency, citing political tension and troubling security reports...
Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has announced plans to probe the $10 million reportedly spent on the state owned newspaper, The Nigerian Observer, by former Governor Godwin Obaseki. Okpebholo made the announcement during an unscheduled visit to the Observer premises with top officials of his administration to inspect the...
The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to revamp the National War Museum and Ojukwu Bunker in Umuahia, in collaboration with the Abia Government. The Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Mr Olugbile Holloway, made this known, on Tuesday, when he paid Gov. Alex Otti...
The 2023 Vice Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Yusuf Buhari, and Kano State governorship candidate, Bala Gwagwarawa, have defected to the APC. Also defecting are the Kano State Working Committee, 38 local government chairmen and secretaries, 13 state assembly, and 6 House of Representatives candidates. The...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has described the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers as a “dangerous precedent” for Nigeria democracy. The CUPP National Secretary, High Chief Peter Ameh, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja also described it as a “selective application of the state...
Former House of Representatives member, (Degema, Bonny, Federal Constituency), Dr Fara Dagogo, has described the declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu as a slap on the Constitution. Dagogo made the remark on Tuesday while in a statement issued to newsmen in Port...
The Coalition for the Immortalisation of Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, urged President Bola Tinubu to confer a Posthumous honour on the former Chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC) Chairman, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu. The Convener of the coalition, Mr Collins Ugwu, made this known during a World media briefing,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Commission Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, made a strong appeal to stakeholders in the Nigerian oil and gas industry on Tuesday, urging them to work together in navigating the energy transition. He emphasized the importance...
President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency in Rivers following the lingering political crisis in the state. The President made the declaration in a national broadcast on Tuesday. He said it had become compelling for him to invoke the provision of section 305 of the Constitution of...
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...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has overtaken Egypt’s Omar Assar to become Africa’s highest-ranked table tennis player in the world. In the rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday, Aruna now occupies the 18th position with 1290 points, moving up one place from the previous rankings. The...
African Development Bank (AfDB) has invested over $8 billion in water infrastructure across 40 African countries since 2000, benefiting more than 92 million people. Director, Water Development and Sanitation Department, AfDB, Mr Johannes Chirwa, said this at the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) West Africa sub-regional meeting in...
The factional leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Working Committee in Rivers, led by Mr Nname Ewor, has condemned impeachment notice against the governor and deputy by Rivers House of Assembly. The committee also said that impeachment of Gov. Siminalaye Fubara was not part of the Supreme Court...