Women in Rivers State have called on the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, his 27 loyalists in the State’s House of Assembly to sheathe their sword and embrace peace. The hundreds of women from the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State, including non-indigenes, who converged in Port Harcourt, Saturday, for a…
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has alerted his successor as Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara that his troubles are not over. “You (Fubara) surrounded yourself with people who wanted to be governor, whom I said ‘no, these people don’t mean well for Rivers State.’ “They are the ones surrounding you, giving…
The political camp of the Rivers state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara was again pushed into a deeper trench by the decision of the state House of Assembly to probe the alleged age falsification of the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Amadi. At its 135th legislative sitting, the House resolved to write to the Department…
Hours after Governor Similanayi Fubara made another request to the Rivers State House of Assembly to present 2025 Appropriation Bill, the House on Friday adjourned plenary indefinitely. The adjournment came a few hours after the governor said he had sent a second letter to the House for the presentation of the state’s 2025 budget. The…
The governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara on Thursday, March 13, wrote to the State House of Assembly, indicating his plan to represent the 2025 budget on Wednesday, March 19. In his letter addressed to the Speaker of the House, the governor said he would be ready to re-present the 2025 appropriation bill on the…
Governor Siminalayi Fubara on Thursday appealed to members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to consider the interest of the people of the state and embrace peace to resolve the political impasse in South-South state. “It is important at this stage that we all embrace peace,” Fubara said when he commissioned some projects in…
Rivers-based activist Jake Epelle on Thursday stated that nobody will impeached the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. According to him, the people of Rivers state are solidly behind Fubara even as he called on Wike and Fubara to address the crisis in the interest of the people of Rivers state. “Let them go and try…
The Rivers Assembly has disagreed with claims by Governor Siminalayi Fubara that he was blocked from entering the House to re-present his 2025 Appropriation Bill. The House said it never received any official communication from the Governor indicating interest to bring his appropriation bill to the floor of the House. The spokesperson of the House…
The Rivers State House of Assembly has concluded plans to call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to invite the Chairman of Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission RSIEC, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd) for questioning. The Assembly, which took this decision in its…
Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, said heaven would not fall if the Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly impeached his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said this at a media parley in Abuja on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Wike maintained that there would be nothing wrong if…