Amaewhule-Led Rivers Assembly Wants Arrest Of Caretaker LG Committee Chairmen Appointed By Fubara
The Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly has frowned at the continued stay in office of the Caretaker Committee Chairmen (CTC) despite a Supreme Court judgement declaring them illegal. The lawmakers want them arrested. The apex court had recently given judgement in a case between the Attorney General of the Federation and the Attorneys General of the 36 states,...
House Speaker, Mike Johnson Calls For Immediate Resignation Of President Biden
House Speaker Mike Johnson has called on President Joe Biden to resign “immediately” in the wake of Biden’s announcement that he will not seek reelection. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign the office immediately,” Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said in a statement Sunday afternoon. Biden...
Court Refuses To Halt Governor Fubara’s Expenditures
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has refused to halt the expenditures of Governor Siminalay Fubara of Rivers State. This decision comes pending the hearing of a substantive suit filed by former speaker of Rivers state House of Assembly Martin Amaewhule and his commitee of friends. Justice Emeka Nwite, ruling on the motion ex-parte marked FHC/ABJ/CS/984/24 and presented by...
Joe Biden Pulls Out Of 2024 US Presidential Race
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will end his presidential re-election campaign, bringing an abrupt and humbling conclusion to his half-century-long political career and scrambling the race for the White House just four months before Election Day. Biden, 81, could not reverse growing sentiment within his party that he was too frail to serve and destined to lose to Donald Trump...
Senator Kalu Advocates For Part-Time Legislature To Cut Costs (Video)
Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, representing Abia North, has suggested that the National Assembly and state legislatures operate on a part-time basis to reduce financial burdens on the government. In an exclusive interview with ABN TV in the US, Kalu proposed a constitutional amendment to enable lawmakers to sit for only three months, with four sessions per year, and emergency sittings...
Afam Osigwe Emerges As President-Elect Of Nigerian Bar Association
In the recently concluded 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) elections, Afam Osigwe, a senior advocate of Nigeria and former general secretary of the NBA, has emerged as the president-elect, ABN TV reports. The 2024 NBA election was held online and was monitored by our correspondent. The Voting began at 12am on Saturday and ended at 11.59pm with the live results for...
Peter Obi’s Media Team Exposes Alleged Presidency Plot To Arrest Him
The Peter Obi Media Reach has refuted allegations made by the presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, linking the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to a planned protest. The media office described the allegations as wild, wicked, and baseless, saying that the presidency was planning to use the planned protest to arrest Obi. In a lengthy post on his verified X...
After Dumping Peter Obi To Support Tinubu, Dele Momodu Hits Doyin Okupe Below The Belt, Says With Advisers Like Him, No Govt Can Succeed
A former presidential aide and the Director-General of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign in the 2023 election, Doyin Okupe and publisher Dele Momodu are currently at each other’s throats over what the former described as a “flip-flop” in the former’s political party loyalty choice. Trouble started when Momodu took to his official X (formerly Twitter) handle to attack Okupe for...
Peter Obi’s Supporters Behind Planned Protests – Presidency
The Presidency has unmasked the masterminds of planned nationwide protests against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration, identifying them as supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Peter Obi. It, however, urged security agents to interrogate the “agents of destabilisation” behind the demonstrations. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a lengthy...
Philip Shaibu Dumps PDP, Returns To APC
Reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, on Saturday, officially rejoined the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The deputy governor, who returned to the APC in Benin, the state capital, alongside prominent members of the Dan Orbih-led Legacy Group of the PDP, said he was back to add value to the party. He said, “On...
