Governor Fubara Resumes Office Thursday President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the end of the state of emergency in Rivers State, six months after it was declared due to a breakdown of governance. The President made the announcement in a statement from the State House on Wednesday, saying the measure, which began on 18 March 2025, will lapse at midnight. “It therefore gives me great pleasure to declare that the emergency in Rivers State of...

Due to the government’s failure to implement pension increments and palliatives, members of the Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria have threatened to embark on a nationwide protest by October 6. Recall that in October 2023, President Bola Tinubu approved N35,000 for workers and N25,000 for pensioners as palliatives. Mukaila Ogunbote, National Chairman of the coalition, stated this at a news conference on Tuesday in Lagos, noting that the pensioners had given the government until September...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has tackled former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, over comments on Tinubu’s government, saying that instigating anarchy is degrading to his status. Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the APC, in a press statement on Tuesday noted that the statement by Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, September 15, 2025, is a new low. The statement reads, “He sounded a false alarm about “hunger and insecurity”, dismissed the transformative reforms of the President...