Save Ogun Communities From Flood, Assembly Urges Commissioner
The Ogun State House of Assembly has charged the state Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya, to evolve more proactive measures to ensure improved flood and erosion control to save Ogun communities. The lawmakers also asked Oresanya to address cases of indiscriminate dumping of refuse across the state. ABNTV recalls that Ogun communities, especially Isheri, Sagamu, Abeokuta, Ilaro, Agbara and others have...
Akpabio Swears In Lalong
Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday, December 20, swore in former governor of Plateau state and immediate past minister of labour and employment, Simon Lalong, as the senator representing Plateau South. The Court of Appeal had declared Lalong as validly elected lawmaker to represent Plateau South senatorial district. Read also: Lalong Resigns From FEC Lalong had on Tuesday, December 19, formally resigned from...
Rivers Elders Reject Tinubu’s Intervention, Say Decisions Executive Rascality
Rivers State elders and leaders including a former Governor, Chief Rufus Ada-George, and former Deputy Governor, Gabriel Toby, have rejected President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis rocking the state. The elders expressed worry that the intervention may have worsened the crisis in the state. They stated this in a communiqué read to newsmen after an emergency meeting on Tuesday...
Gov Mutfwang Signs 2024 Appropriation Bill Into Law
Plateau’s Gov. Caleb Mutfwang has signed the state’s 2024 budget of N314.8 billion into law, his media aide, Mr Gyang Bere, stated on Wednesday in Jos. The budget is N164.9 billion higher than the N149.9 billion budgeted in 2023. Christened “Budget of New Beginnings’’, the 2024 budget has a recurrent expenditure component of N162.3 billion and capital expenditure of N152.5 billion. “As governor, this...
Rivers Lawmakers Withdraw Impeachment Notice Against Fubara
Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have withdrawn the impeachment notice that was previously sent to Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The lawmakers officially began their sessions in the state capital of Port Harcourt on Wednesday. The lawmakers gathered solely to focus on the withdrawal of the impeachment notice against Fubara during their deliberations. This follows a meeting between President Bola Tinubu...
No Going Back In Replacement Rivers Defecting Lawmakers, PDP Vows
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu over the crisis between the Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and his estranged godfather and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, the Acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, asked the...
Supreme Court Disqualifies Trump From 2024 Ballot
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s ballots for next year’s election due to his inciting the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, but paused the decision from taking effect until Jan. 4. The delay allows Trump to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado ruling, which found that Trump had engaged in “insurrection,” thus disqualifying...
I’ve Not Received Allocation In Last Six Months — Edo Deputy Governor
Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, on Tuesday, said he has not received the allocation to his office in the last six months, noting that he has been running the office on personal sacrifices and goodwill. He stated this at the commissioning of the secretariat of the Correspondents Chapel of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists...
Tinubu Can’t Reinstate 27 Rivers Lawmakers Who Lost Their Seats — Falana
Amid the controversy trailing the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis rocking Rivers State, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that the President cannot reinstate 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. In a statement on Tuesday, Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said that presidential interventions must always be grounded in...
We Can’t Accept Tinubu’s Resolution On Rivers Crisis, Edwin Clark Vows
South-South Leader, Edwin Clark has described the communique issued at the end of the reconciliatory meeting by President Bola Tinubu to resolve the crisis in Rivers State as baffling, appalling and unacceptable to the people, especially, the ljaw ethnic nationality. In a press conference in Abuja, the elder statesman, threatens legal action, says eight-point resolution undemocratic, dictatorial, one-sided and aimed...
