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...
President Tinubu Orders Rivers Lawmakers To Halt Fubara’s Impeachment
A meeting convened by President Bola Tinubu to address the political crisis in Rivers State has instructed the immediate cessation of the impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara. It also mandates the withdrawal of all court cases initiated by the governor, while recognizing the leadership of Hon. Martin Amaewhule and the defected 27 lawmakers. According to a document emerging from the...
Appeal Court Victory: We’re One Big Family, Fintiri’s Deputy Tells Adamawa People
The deputy governor of Adamawa State, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, has dedicated the victory of his principal at the Court of Appeal to all the people of Adamawa State. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday, December 18, affirmed the election of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, dismissing the appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
Tinubu Constitutional Role In Rivers, Ondo Political Crises — Fashola
A former Minister of Work, Babatunde Fashola, has said that President Bola Tinubu’s intervention is not required in the ongoing political tensions in Ondo and Rivers states, as the constitution doesn’t give room for such. “Does the Constitution assign a role to the President in this matter?” Fashola asked while speaking at the Nigerian Air Force Officers Mess Honourary Members...
Reps To Revolutionalise Science, Engineering, Technological Innovations
The House of Representatives (Reps) said on Monday, December 18, that it is prepared to chart a new course that will propel the country into a new heights in science, engineering and technological innovation. Chairman of the House Committee on Science Engineering, one of the newly created Committees, Hon. Inuwa Garba, who spoke t the inaugural meeting of the committee that the...
A’Court Upholds Fintiri’s Re-Election As Adamawa Governor
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, affirmed the re-election of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, dismissed an appeal that was filed by candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Aisha Dahiru Binani, even as it awarded N1 million in costs against her. The...
