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Wike Confirms Meeting with Fubara, Calls for Genuine Reconciliation

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has confirmed that suspended Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara recently visited him in Abuja alongside two other governors in what appeared to be a peace overture. Wike, who is the immediate past governor of Rivers State, disclosed this on Monday during a media parley with select […]

Tinubu Asks Supreme Court to Throw Out PDP Governors’ Rivers Suit

President Bola Tinubu has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the suit filed by 11 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-controlled states challenging his declaration of emergency rule and suspension of elected officials in Rivers State. On 18 March 2025, President Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers, suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, […]

Atiku, El-Rufai, and Others Reject Rivers Emergency Rule, Urge Judiciary to Act

A coalition of opposition political leaders, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal, and key figures in the Labour Party (LP), has strongly condemned the imposition of a state of emergency in Rivers State. President Bola Tinubu had declared […]

Tinubu’s State of Emergency in Rivers Gets NASS Approval, Sparks Controversy

Despite strong opposition to the presidential proclamation imposing a state of emergency in oil-rich Rivers State, Nigeria’s two top legislative chambers have approved President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of 18 March 2025, within the 48-hour period stipulated by the 1999 Constitution. In separate voice votes, which have been widely criticised, the 109-member Senate and the 360-member […]