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EndBadGovernance: Protesters storm Wikes residence in Rivers

Aminu Imam

The #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria protesters have reportedly stormed the residence of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to demonstrate against the hike in the cost of living in the country. The protesters, seen in large numbers in a viral video yesterday, were chanting and carrying placards with various inscriptions. The house was however guarded by heavy security personnel wielding rifles. While the protesters were reciting the old national anthem, one of the demonstrators said, Thats Wikes house.

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Protests: “Dont open on Tuesday”,Youths warn business owners in Rivers

Aminu Imam
Rivers protest

#EndBadGovernanceprotesters in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, yesterday warned business owners in the city not to open for business today, Tuesday, or else risk possible attack. The protesters issued the warning at a Lagos bus stop, where several businesses were opened amid the nationwide protest. The protesters, who converged around Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt old township, around 8am, marched the adjoining streets with placards calling for improved governance in the country. The irate youths, including men and women, as they trekked, chanted: Tinubu must go!, Wike must go!, Akapbio…

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Rivers protesters reject Tinubus new National Anthem, sing Arise O Compatriots

Aminu Imam
Rivers protesters reject

#EndBadGovernance protesters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State yesterday, recited the now-defunct Arise O compatriots national anthem, ditching the reintroduced Nigeria We Hail Thee. Recall that the Federal Government had reintroduced the latter anthem a few months ago. During the #EndBadGovernance protests in Port Harcourt, an amateur video captured the demonstrators standing in solidarity singing the Arise O Compatriots, demanding better governance from President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu officially reinstated the original national anthem: Nigeria, We Hail Thee, on May 29, 2024. Yesterday, Nigerians across the country took to the streets to…

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Rivers: ?Fubara wins, as AppealCourt strikes out suit seeking tenure extension forpro-Wike LGChairmen

Aminu Imam
Rivers A'Court strikes out suit

The Port Harcourt Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, dismissed two appeals filed by former elected local government chairmen in Rivers State, loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike, seeking the elongation of their tenure in office. This is as two factions of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Minister Wike held separate sittings at different locations in Port Harcourt, with pro-Wike lawmakers giving a seven-day ultimatum to the governor to represent the States 2024 Budget proposal for…

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Rivers: Appeal Court reinstates Wikes loyalists asAssembly members

Aminu Imam
Wike and Fubara

The Court of Appeal has overturned the decision to dismiss Martin Amaewhule and 24 other members from their positions in the Rivers State House of Assembly. The ruling reinstates their status as Assembly members, reversing the previous judgement that had removed them from office. By its action, the Court of Appeal has vacated the order of Justice C.N. Wali, of the Rivers State High Court. According to the Appeal Court, only the Federal High Court and no other court has the jurisdiction to determine cases of tenures and vacancies of…

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Rivers crisis: Police declare ex-militant leader ‘General’ Asabuja as wanted

Aminu Imam
Rivers Police

A former Niger-Delta militant leader, Gabriel General Asabuja, has been declared wanted by the Rivers Police Command over a viral video in which he was seen issuing some threats over the ongoing crisis on the tenure of local government councils in the State. Rivers State  Police Commissioner, Tunji Disu, who revealed this when he appeared on a television programme on Tuesday. condemned the video, noting that Asabuja threats and firing caused a lot of panic in the State. The militant leader was seen in the video threatening to take over…

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Riverscrisis:State Electoral Commissionannounces plan to conduct LG’s election

Aminu Imam
Siminalayi Fubara

The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, (RSIEC), has disclosed that it would conduct local government election soon. The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, made the disclosure yesterday. Recall that the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday swore in caretaker committee chairmen in the 23 local government areas after the expiration of the tenure of local government chairmen who are loyal to Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT). During the swearing-in, Fubara had said their tenure would be short because the local government election would…

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Rivers: “Were at war” – APC urges FG to declare state-of-emergency

Aminu Imam
Rivers Police

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter in Rivers State has asked the Federal Government to declare a ‘state of emergency’ in the State. Addressing a press conference yesterday, chairman of the caretaker committee of the party in Rivers, Tony Okocha, said the governor, Siminialayi Fubara and security agencies in the State are helpless. The APC caretaker chairman said, “The Federal Government needs to act fast in Rivers following the decision of some former LGA chairmen who attempted to continue in office. The governor is helpless; the Police are helpless. Therefore,…

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Rivers: Police take over 23 LG secretariats, as crisis spreads

Aminu Imam
Rivers Police

…“I won’t allow my supporters to be arrested”, Fubara vows Rivers State Police Command says it has taken over the 23 local government councils in the State, as well as some critical infrastructure in the oil and gas-rich State. The State Police Command’s Spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this in a statement issued yesterday night. The Police said the action was to forestall further bloodbath as well as a breakdown of law and order due to the spread of the crisis over the tenure of the outgoing local government chairmen. Iringe-Koko…

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Rivers: ‘?Court didnt declare Amaewhule, 26 others as PDPAssembly members’ – State govt.

Aminu Imam
Rivers Assembly

The Rivers State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dagogo Iboroma, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), has explained that the State High Court in the State did not declare that Martin Amaewhule and 26 others are still members of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), and the State House of Assembly. Iboroma noted that the news that the court affirmed the lawmakers were still members of PDP and RSHA was misleading, stressing that the information is meant to deceive the public. Iboroma, who is the 3rd defendant in the suit, in…

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