Category: Politics

There was palpable tension on Tuesday during the hearing of a sexual harassment petition filed by Kogi Central lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as the same members of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Petitions engaged in a heated exchange with former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili. While the senators engaged Ezekwesili in a war of words, the Independent National Electoral Commission gave the embattled Kogi lawmaker temporary respite as it faulted the petitioners for not complying with the recall guidelines. Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended by the Senate on March 6 following…

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Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who was assigned to hear a suit that was filed by the suspended Senator for Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, has hands off the case. The trial judge based his decision on a petition the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, wrote to challenge his objectivity in the matter. Though the suit was originally fixed for hearing, however, when the matter was called up by the court’s clerk, Justice Egwuatu, announced his decision in a short ruling he delivered. He said…

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan blamed key actors across the executive, legislature, and judiciary of abusing power, over the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State. Jonathan who spoke at the annual colloquium of the Haske Satumari Foundation on Saturday in Abuja, said the state of emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu was a clear abuse of power. According to the former president, those in power know the right thing to do but are deliberately ignoring it. Jonathan, who didn’t mention President Bola Tinubu directly, accused government officials…

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President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, declared a state of emergency in Rivers state following the two-year political crisis ravaging the state. In a 1003-word nationwide broadcast, the President suspended the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly for six months. He appointed former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas, retd, as administrator, and the appointment is subject to the confirmation of the National Assembly. With the development, Rivers has become the sixth state, after Plateau, Ekiti, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa,…

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The raging battle between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly members took a new dimension as the assembly members have commenced impeachment process against the governor and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, over alleged gross misconduct. The 26 members of the assembly in the document signed and dated March 14, 2025, and addressed to the Speaker through the Clerk of the House indicated that they have found Governor Fubara and his Deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, guilty of gross misconduct. The lawmakers, in a notice titled,…

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A prominent politician and former presidential spokesperson, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has passed away. A trained physician who co-founded Royal Cross Medical Centre, details of his death is still hazy, but family source has confirmed his death. Aged 72, Okupe was Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan during their tenures as president. He later became the Director-General of Peter Obi’s 2023 Presidential Campaign. He stepped down from Obi’s campaign after being convicted of money laundering, and…

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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, re-elected its embattled former speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa. This followed the resignation of Mrs. Mojisola Meranda. Obasa’s re-election by his colleagues followed a series of interventions by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, both at the national and state levels. Though there were speculations that the reinstated Speaker may resign, it was gathered that a strategic meeting that led to the resolution of the crisis in the Assembly reined in the anti-Obasa lawmakers. A source familiar with the crisis…

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Kabir Sani-Giant, Special Adviser to Kebbi State Gov. Nasir Idris on Power and Politics, has been suspended by the All Progressives Congress, Kebbi State chapter, with immediate effect. A statement signed by the party’s state secretary, Alhaji Sa’idu Muhammad-Kimba, announced the suspension in Birnin Kebbi on Sunday. He revealed that on February 8, 2025, Sani-Giant brought a snake to Government House, intimidating dignitaries, statesmen, and officials. Muhammad-Kimba said that the conduct could embarrass and discredit the APC. He added that Sani-Giant’s actions violated APC’s constitution. According to him, the party…

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Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan representing Kogi Central, has alleged that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, made advances towards her, including flirtatious remarks, in the presence of her husband. In an interview on AriseTV morning Show, Natasha detailed an encounter at Akpabio’s residence in Ikot Ekpene and later in Uyo, where she claimed the Senate president attempted to establish an inappropriate relationship with her. “And at first we were at Ikot Ekpene, we were in his house in Ikot Ekpene for his birthday. Then we all moved to his house in Uyo,…

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