After President Bola Tinubu intervened in the seismic crisis that rocked oil-rich Rivers State last week, one thing and two people unraveled. By their unraveling, pretentious veils were lifted off their faces. They were, the president himself, the nature of Nigeria’s presidential democracy and the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara. Nigerians distrusted the piece of paper that emanated from …

Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum has described as a contravention of the constitution, which President Bola Tinubu swore to uphold. The Forum, led by former Rivers State Governor, Chief Rufus Ada George said on Tuesday that the eight-point resolution announced at the end of Monday night’s meeting of the state’s stakeholders with President Tinubu “unilaterally suspended the constitution of the …

After weeks of dramatic twists in Rivers State, the political gladiators in the south-south state reached a truce on Monday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Villa in Abuja. One of the highpoints of the eight-point resolution is the withdrawal of all court cases relating to the political crisis in the state. On one side of …

President Bola Tinubu is meeting with stakeholders from Rivers State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Governor Siminalayi Fubara led the team from the state. The stakeholders included a former governor of the oil-rich state, Dr. Peter Odili; and some traditional rulers from the state. It was learnt that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike is also …

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State is not an ethnic war and warned politicians not to pull the ladder they used in ascending to their enviable positions This is as he said his political team in the state will not allow anyone to drag it down. The …

If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr. Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th century British historian and colonial administrator, he would most probably have thought twice before settling for Siminalayi Fubara as his third term placeholder. Wike was a two-term governor of Rivers State and today, Minister of the Federal Capital …

The riff between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his immediate predecessor, Barrister Nyesom Wike, which has led to the resignation of nine commissioners from the State Executive Council (SEC), is said to have been triggered by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT) handing over list of commissioners and their portfolios to Fubara ahead of his inauguration on 29th May. …

With the political crisis in Rivers State unabating, a former governor of Rivers State, Chief Rufus Ada George has called on politicians to embrace peace and cease using provocative comments in the interest of the state. This as two members of the House of Representatives from the state attributed the political crisis to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory …

The only thing that trumps the mocking viral videos of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, are the live footages of the State House of Assembly being demolished on Wednesday morning by a dozen bulldozers in what appeared like a scene from Gaza. Reporters were even warned to steer clear. It was no longer renovation as planned; …

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) demanding fresh elections to replace the 27 lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday. The affected lawmakers in the 32-member parliament are said to be loyal to the Minister of the Federal …