Concerned members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa have called on the party’s national leadership to sanction party members engaged in anti-party activities at the state’s Nov. 11 governorship election. Speaking with newsmen on Friday in Abuja, spokesman of the forum, Dr Otiti Etionumeya, said some party...
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the treasonable charge filed against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The New Agency of Nigeria( NAN) reports the federal government prayed the court to set aside an earlier judgment by the Court of Appeal, which...
A former Rivers State Governor, Rufus Ada-George has said ex-governors of the state will intervene in the crisis rocking the oil-rich state. Rivers has been in a political crisis for a few months following the impasse between former Governor Nyesom Wike and his successor Sim Fubara....
The political tsunami sweeping Rivers State appears unabating as three more commissioners on Thursday resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s cabinet. The latest to pull out of the cabinet are the Commissioner for Works George-Kelly Alabo – who served in the same capacity under Nyesom Wike’s government –...
The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Damagum, has said there is no more rancour in the Edo chapter of the party. Damagum stated this when he spoke with the media, shortly after a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC)...
In an interesting twist to the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State, the Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly convened a sitting on Thursday, some 24 hours after Governor Siminalayi Fubara led the demolition of the Assembly Complex on Moscow Road. The Amaewhule group held a...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has faulted Gov. Siminalayi Fubara’s 2024 budget presentation to four out of the 31 members of the state House of Assembly. Governor Fubara had on Wednesday presented the N800 billion 2024 budget to the four lawmakers believed to be loyal to him at...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Kemi Pinheiro, has called for creation of supreme courts in states to reflect federalism. Pinheiro made the call at a public presentation of book co-authored by Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Lawal Pedro (SAN), in Ikeja on Wednesday evening....
The Rivers House of Assembly has moved a motion declaring vacant the 25 seats of members who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The motion was unanimously supported by the four-member assembly, led by Edison Ehie (PDP-Ahoada 11), during Wednesday’s...
The Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate in Bayelsa, Udengs Eradiri, has approached the election petition tribunal, seeking the disqualifications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate, Senator Douye Diri, and his APC counterpart, Chief Timipre Sylva. Eradiri, who rejected the results of the last governorship polls in the...
The National Assembly joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously rejected the judiciary budget. It also gave the Minister of National Planning and DG budget 24 hours to appear before it, over poor budgetary allocation to the Nigerian judiciary, an act they...
Two witnesses on Wednesday gave account of how they nearly lost their lives to machete injuries allegedly inflicted on them by agents of an Oyo state traditional ruler, Oba Solomon Akinola, the Oloko of Oko. The witnesses, Pastor Owolabi Olusegun and Mr Olufemi Adelakun gave their testimonies before an...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, on Wednesday, cautioned the Federal High Court (FHC) judges against taken their appointment for granted. Justice Ariwoola, who made the statement while declaring open the 39th Annual FHC Judges’ Conference and the FHC’s 50th Anniversary Lectures in Abuja, urged...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Rivers State has charged Gov. Siminalayi Fubara to refrain from acts capable of escalating the political crisis rocking the state. The state Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Tony Okocha, gave the charge at a news briefing in Port Harcourt. Okocha was...
After months of consultation within and outside Edo State, immediate past Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, announced on Tuesday his entry into the race for the Edo State governorship seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), thus...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu is to begin another medical leave on Wednesday as a follow-up to his medical treatment. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Richard Olatunde, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Akure. According to the...
A High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Commissioner of Police in Kogi, Mr Bethrand Unuoha from arresting the Spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state Mr Faruk Adejoh-Audu. Also restrained are the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the Department of State Security...
A 44-year-old man, David Eludi, who allegedly obtained the sum of N352,000 from a woman under false pretences, has been dragged before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The defendant, said to be a pastor, was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining by false pretenses and...
The trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, accused of the murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Micheal Ataga, on Tuesday, was again stalled due to the absence of a prosecution witness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case could not go on due to the ill...
I featured on an Arise TV Program, last month, where I “advertised” myself as a gubernatorial aspirant in search of a godfather that will help me achieve my gubernatorial aspiration in Edo state, and make me the democratically elected governor of the state come 2024. My interviewer laughed...