Saudi Arabia is set to host the men’s 2034 World Cup after Australia withdrew its interest to bid for the tournament. Football Australia confirmed its decision only hours before Fifa’s deadline for declarations of interest on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is the only other nation to bid. Australia’s governing body says it intends to focus its…
The 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill on Tuesday scaled second reading in the House of Representatives as lawmakers said it is for the benefit of the country. President Bola Tinubu had written the House seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more. The President…
The Eze Igbo of Rivers and Bayelsa States, His Imperial Majesty, Engr. Sam Nwokolo, Eze Igbo, Eze-jiofor Ndigbo, has appealed to the former governor of Rivers state and now the minister of the Federal capital Territory Nyesom Wike to allow his successor Siminalayi Fubara, to focus on the task of governing the state. Eze Nwokolo…
The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara; and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, are about now meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The two were seen shaking hands upon meeting. The incident followed the impeachment proceedings launched against Fubara by the Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday. There…
President Bola Tinubu has written the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the sum of N2, 176, 791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more. The President also sent the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework & Fiscal Strategy Paper to the House of Representatives. On Monday, the Federal Executive…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has denied reports in the media that he had sacked the State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi; his Chief of Staff, Hon. Chidi Amadi; and suspended the Chairmen of the 23 Local Government Areas. Speculations were also rife that the governor sacked his Chief Security Officer in the wake of…
The Nigerian Police Force says it has launched an investigation into the security situation at the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex. The police disclosed this in a post on its Facebook page on Monday, assuring that it would take immediate action against those responsible. “We’re aware of the security situation at the Rivers State…
Ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Imo State, the state government has requested to occupy all hotel rooms in Owerri, the state capital. The state Commissioner for Tourism, Jerry Egemba, in a memo addressed to all Chief Executive Officers of all the hotels in the Owerri metropolis, stated that the state government would…
Some lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara have elected Edison Ehie as the new Speaker. Ehie was the House Leader until he was suspended on Monday. But he told reporters at the Government House, Port Harcourt later that 26 members of the House sat and elected him Speaker….
Following the political crisis rocking Rivers State over the plot to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara, elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked President Bola Tinubu to call the mister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to order. Speaking to J journalists On Monday In Abuja, Clark, a leader of the South-South regional group, the…
