The Hon Minister for Power and Accord Party candidate in the 2023 gubernatorial election for Oyo state had now returned to the APC. In a letter dated 6th of December, 2023, he notified the Executive committee of the Oyo APC of his intention to return to the fold and the manner with which he wanted to be received. I have read the said letter over and over and with due respect to the Hon Minister, I think he lacks quality advisers or perhaps, he has but have refused to take their counsel. The tone of the letter smacks of arrogance,…
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Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Friday clarified that he was exhausted and diagnosed with malaria following reports that he collapsed at his 61st birthday colloquium held Thursday in Abuja. Akpabio was reported to have slumped after the event while seeing President Bola Tinubu off at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja and was rushed to the hospital. Addressing reporters on Friday at the Senate, Akpabio, who did not confirm whether he slumped or not, said he had malaria, worsened by stress. He said, “What eventually happened after the event was a show of humanity. I went home and I called…
Six of the 18 commissioners yesterday quit Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s Executive Council, complicating the political imbroglio in the state. Also yesterday, the 27 members of the House of Assembly, who on Monday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), sat at the auditorium of the Assembly quarters. This is despite the demolition of the House of Assembly complex by the government and an ex-parte injunction granted by Justice Justice M.W. Danagogo. On Tuesday, relying on the injunction, four members of the House met, received and passed Governor Fubara’s 2024 Appropriation Bill. The governor signed…
Further deepening the crisis in Rivers State, PUNCH Online can report that four commissioners have so far resigned Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet. The state Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Inime Chinwenwo-Aguma, and the Commissioner for Works, George-Kelly Alabo, are the latest among those who resigned in 24 hours. Chinwenwo-Aguma cited “personal and other personal commitments,” while Alabo said his resignation is anchored on his “conscience” as seen in the press releases obtained by PUNCH Online. This is coming after the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, and the Commissioner for Special Duties, Emeka Woke,…
The Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, has appealed to the National Assembly to increase his ministry’s budget for the 2024 fiscal year, saying the N1.57trn allocated to it was not enough to fight the insecurity in the country. The minister made the call on Wednesday when he appeared before a joint National Assembly Committee on Defence to defend the ministry’s 2024 budget proposal. Badaru said the rising cost of operations and the increase in the price of diesel and fuel necessitated the call for an increment of the ministry’s allocation. In the 2024 budget, the Ministry of Defence was allocated…
The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s move to end the rift between the state governor, Simi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has collapsed as crisis in the state has continued to fester. Recall that Tinubu recently held a meeting with Wike and Fubara at the presidential villa in Abuja, to broker peace between the two politicians in the state. But in the last four days, the crisis assumed a new dimension with the demolition of the state House of Assembly Complex and defection…
The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh elections in the Constituencies of 25 lawmakers who recently dumped the party for All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Rivers State. In a communique released after the meeting of the National Working Committee of the party, the party directed the National Legal Adviser to commence appropriate legal action with respect to the declaration of the seats of the 25 defected former members vacant and the conduct of fresh election into the 25 State Constituencies in Rivers State in accordance with…
Factional speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, has declared the seats of 27 lawmakers vacant. The speaker said on Wednesday that the seats of the lawmakers who decamped to the All Progressive Congress (APC), from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were declared vacant in line with Section 109 (1) (g) and 2 of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended. Details loading…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections into the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State which have become vacant by reason of the defection of the 27 former State lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP asserts that by defecting from the PDP, the political Party platform on which they were elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly, the seats of the respective 27 former lawmakers have become vacant by virtue of the provision of…
A nationwide electric power collapse has occurred throwing major Nigerian cities into darkness. According to sources at the National Control Centre at Osogbo in Osun State, the national grid collapsed at 13.49 pm. The sources provided no information on the cause of the system failure or when power is expected to be restored. Meanwhile, Aba Power Ltd has notified consumers in its ring-fenced area covering nine Local Government Areas in Abia State its services of the development. Apologising for the blackout, the utility firm, Nigeria’s 12th distribution company, pledged to resume power supply once the “problem is sorted out”. In…