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Retired Officers, Northern Elders Back Irabor’s Call for State of Emergency on Insecurity

6 October 2025

In his new book, Scars: Nigeria’s Journey and the Boko Haram Conundrum, Irabor argued that the absence of political will had hindered Nigeria’s response to the insurgency. He said a state of emergency backed by the National Assembly would mobilise all elements of national power, economic, political, social, diplomatic, and military, to end the war. […]

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Reps warns Rivers administrator against making laws

7 April 2025

The House of Representatives has hinted that the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok Ete Ibas, does not have the constitutional mandate to make laws for the running of the State. The green chamber made this known following the administrator’s readiness to prepare a new budget for the running of the state in the […]

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State of emergency: We will emerge stronger – Fubara

1 April 2025

Suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has reassured residents that the ongoing political crisis will make them stronger.

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JUST IN: Reps approve Tinubu’s emergency rule in Rivers

20 March 2025

The House of Representatives has approved the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, along with the six-month suspension of Governor Sim Fubara, his deputy, and all elected members of the assembly, as announced by President Bola Tinubu. Two days after the move, Tinubu wrote to the National Assembly, seeking their approval for […]

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Fubara calls for calm, blames lawmakers over emergency rule

19 March 2025

Suspended Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has urged the people of the state to remain calm in the face of the political instability in the state. In a statement, he noted that all his actions and decisions had been guided by his constitutional oath of office and a great sense of duty ever since he […]

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