Category: Politics

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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Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central senatorial district, has instituted a N100.3billion defamation suit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, FCT, Abuja. This came after the Senate began a probe of the senator for engaging in verbal exchange with the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, over sitting arrangement at plenary last Thursday. Akpoti-Uduaghan, alleged that the Senate president tarnished her image through a defamatory post published on his social media platform, Facebook. According to the claimant, the Senate President had in the post…

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Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, is angry because he was blocked from getting a ministerial appointment in the current administration. El-Rufai has been critical of Tinubu’s government in recent times. During an interview on Arise TV, el-Rufai said it was Tinubu, not the National Assembly, that blocked his nomination as a minister after initially asking him to be part of the government. “The National Assembly had nothing to do with it, the president didn’t…

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The local government council elections conducted across Osun state yesterday witnessed low turnout of voters, as well as absence of security operatives in polling units. Although some wards and polling units witnessed a large turnout of voters, majority of the units where voting took place recorded low turnout compared to the last governorship election in the state. Voting did not take place in some polling units in Osogbo, Olorunda local government areas and in most polling units of Ilesa-West, Ilesa-East, Irewole, where Remi Abass was killed during the council takeover…

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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has called on President Bola Tinubu to warn the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, against causing violence and chaos in the state ahead of the February 22 local council poll. Governor Adeleke accused Oyetola of allegedly planning to enforce what he termed non-existent Court of Appeal judgment, which purportedly reinstated local council chairmen and councillors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2022, who were sacked by a Federal High Court judgment. Adeleke spoke at a media briefing…

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