Martins Amaewhule
14 Jun 2024
Sacked Pro-Wike Rivers State assembly Lawmakers have faced another setback as an appeal court has rejected their request to stay execution of the order barring them from parading themselves as lawmakers after their sack. The Court of Appeal in Port-Harcourt at a virtual hearing on Friday via Zoom gave its ruling on two motions filed…
30 May 2024
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has issued an interlocutory injunction barring the lawmakers led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule from sitting and parading themselves as members of the state House of Assembly. Justice C.N. Wali presided over the case filed by pro-Governor Siminilayi Fubara lawmakers, led by their Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo, and…
6 Feb 2024
The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the 27 lawmakers who defected to APC to domesticate the local government autonomy which was recently passed into law. The caretaker committee chairman of the party in the state, Tony Okocha, gave the charge yesterday when he visited the Speaker of the House of…
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Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has urged residents to actively condemn criminal activities in society, emphasising that security is a collective responsibility. Soludo made the call on Sunday during the thanksgiving service to mark the beginning of the 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day commemoration in Awka. He stated that addressing insecurity required the involvement…
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The National Agricultural Development Fund (NAFD) has signed a contract agreement valued at $70million for the direct procurement of 2000 John Deere tractors. NAFD was mandated by the Federal Executive Council to spearhead the deployment of 10,000 John Deere tractors across Nigeria, with an initial rollout of 2,000 units scheduled for the first and second…
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Lecturers at the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) have asked the federal government to launch a probe into the missing N3 billion revenue uncovered by a June 2021 presidential visitation panel to the institution. A 2021 presidential visitation panel to the UniAbuja chaired by Bujar Goni Aji and inaugurated on April 13 of that year submitted…
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Ifeanyichukwu Eze, Personal Assistant to the Deputy Speaker, Ebonyi House of Assembly, Mr Chinedu Onah, has died in a road accident on the Abakaliki-Enugu Expressway. Mr Chinonso Nwede, the Secretary of the Deputy Speaker’s Legislative Aides Forum, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday. According to him, the incident occurred whilst Eze was returning…