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By Felix Durumbah There is only one major obstacle to the plot to potentially impeach Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State by the majority 27 lawmakers in the State House of Assembly: the State Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Simeon Amadi. This was the view of Mahmud Jega, former Special Adviser, Public Affairs, to President Bola Tinubu when the latter was presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 elections. Jega is also a respected editor and political analyst. He spoke on Arise TV on the protracted Rivers State crisis involving the governor and his estranged political godfather,…

By our reporter The feud between Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and his estranged political godson and governor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, entered a new high on Saturday, March 15, with the Minister openly mocking the governor in public. Addressing a gathering of Kalabari people at a reception for him on Saturday in the state, Wike likened his battle with the governor to a football match, saying he (Wike) had scored two goals to Fubara's none so far. The immediate past governor of Rivers State was apparently referring to the recent Supreme Court verdict which ordered…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Less than a week after former governor of Kaduna State, North-West Nigeria, Malam Nasir El-Rufai,exited the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP), hoping to use the latter as springboard to oust APC from power in 2027, snippets of information have begun oozing out throwing light on some goings-on in the party. According to a youth coalition within SDP, the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) allegedly seeks to hijack the party for personal political ends. Last Monday, El-Rufai announced that he had quit the APC, handing in his resignation…

The Secretary of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Yomi Arowosafe, has commended the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK FCDO), for their collaboration with Nigerian government to deepen rural connectivity for socio-economic development of the country. Arowosafe gave the commendation at an Industry-Focused Stakeholders Engagement Session which was organised in Lagos over the weekend by the USPF in in collaboration with the UK FCDO and the ITU. The session built on USPF’s ongoing efforts to facilitate the achievement of wide network connectivity coverage in…