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Wike appoints Tamuno as MD of Abuja Investment Company limited

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The Minister of the FCT Barrister Nyesom Wike has approved the appointment of Ambassador (Dr) Maureen Tamuno as the new Managing Director of Abuja Investment Company Limited, (AICL).   The was contained in a statement signed by the Director Press, office of the Minister, Anthony Ogunleye.   An experienced public officer, entrepreneur, and diplomat, Ambassador Tamuno was the Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Belize, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.   Her appointment takes immediate effect.   The Minister had also terminated with immediate effect, the contract of Messrs Integrated Facility…

How Joint Security Forces rescued Abuja Al-Kadriyar sisters,others in Kaduna Forest

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The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has revealed details of how the Al-Kadriyar sisters and other abducted victims were rescued from the bandits’ den in Kajuru forest in Kaduna State by a joint team of policemen and soldiers of the Nigerian Army on Saturday night.   About 23 persons were abducted on January 2, 2024, in the Zuma 1 area of Kawu, in the Bwari Area Council of Abuja.   The police on Sunday confirmed that all the victims, including five sisters whose abduction had raised nationwide concerns, were rescued…

Fubara appoints ex-Speaker, Edison Ehie as Chief of Staff

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The executive governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has appointed the immediate-past Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Honourable Edison Ehie, as his new Chief of Staff. Mr Ehie, who thwarted the impeachment of governor Fubara last year will now replace Honourable Chidi Amadi, a kinsman to the troublesome Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.   The former Speaker had on Sunday night resigned his position as both Speaker and member representing Ahoada-East Constituency 2 in the Rivers State House of Assembly. NewsBand reported…

The “Af’eyinpin’ran” intervention in Rivers By Festus Adedayo

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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 the Tinubu intervention. To them, it reeks of the proverbial partiality of one entrusted with the task of deploying their incisors to halve a piece of meat called the “af’eyin…

26 Rivers lawmakers loyal to Wike finally withdraw impeachment notice against Fubara

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The twenty-six out of the twenty-seven members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who initially filed an impeachment notice against Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State have withdrawn their notice. The lawmakers, who are former Governor Nyesom Wike’s allies announced their decision to withdraw the impeachment notice as a gesture of respect following a reconciliation meeting convened by President Bola Tinubu on Monday between the feuding parties. The 26 legislators convened at the House of Assembly Complex on Wednesday morning to formalise the withdrawal, marking a significant shift in…

Fubara, Wike agree to end rift after meeting with Tinubu …. sign peace deal

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The Governor of Rivers State, Mr Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Barrister Nysom Wike have agreed to end their rift after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa on Monday.   The meeting had Vice President Kashim Shettima; the chief of staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila; national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; former governor of Rivers State Peter Odili and some traditional rulers from the state.   According to the resolutions reached at the end of the meeting, parties involved in the political crisis agreed that all…

BREAKING: Tinubu meets Fubara, Odili and others in Aso Rock amid Rivers crisis

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently having a closed-door meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, at the Presidential Villa Abuja.   Fubara was accompanied to the seat of power by the former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili, and other stakeholders from the state.   The President is wading in to resolve the face-off between the governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.     Wike was earlier sighted at the State House.   Sources within the presidency confirmed that…

Beyond the Rivers of Trouble,By Chidi Amuta

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In my adopted home state of Rivers, they do not “play” politics. They wage bitter “fights” over politics. Political outcomes are more of spoils of murky wars than victories of democratic rituals. While the contest for power and supremacy rages, instruments of violence are fair. People are killed routinely. Even long after a political battle has been won and lost, the bitterness endures. Political families become enemy camps. Political dispensations survive or die out according to their ability to sustain their camp with the spoils of war. So, political solidarity…

As Fubara presses the nuclear button By Festus Adedayo

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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 Simnalaya Fubara as his third term placeholder. Wike was a two-term governor of Rivers State and today, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. In his highly authoritative 1926 book, Peoples of Southern Nigeria: a Sketch of their History, Ethnology, and Languages, with an Abstract of the 1921 Census, Talbot reserved an unflattering…

Fubara and the Rebellion of Godsons,by Simon Kolawole

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Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and face-offs between godfathers and godsons in Nigerian politics. The open war between Chief Nyesom Wike, former governor of Rivers state, and Mr Siminalayi Fubara, whom he handpicked as his successor, is the latest in the catalogue of godfathers vs godsons which, I reckon, is as old as Nigerian politics. Godfathers, or godmothers, are heavyweights who deploy their political or economic might to handpick candidates for political offices. Ordinarily, their anointed candidates, or godsons/goddaughters, do not have the machinery to win elections…