Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country today. 1. Tinubu declares State of Emergency in Rivers, suspends Gov, dep, others for six months President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday suspended the governor of Rivers State, his deputy and all elected lawmakers in the state for six months following the political crisis that…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency and suspension of Rivers state governor, Sim Fubara, his deputy and 27 lawmakers for six months. In a statement released on Tuesday, March 18, NBA President, Mazi Afam Osigwe (SAN) said the President does not have the constitutional…
Peter Hegseth, Image via Wikipedia Peter Hegseth is charging forward on the promise to De-Woke The Military, codified in Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from the ranks. Among their targets are Black soldiers, who have been a center–and many times a catalyst–of the broader anti-racist struggle for well over a century. Some of Hegseth’s…
The political crisis that has rocked Rivers State for the past two years, due to a fallout between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his erstwhile political godfather and former Governor Nyesom Wike on the one hand, and a faction of the State House of Assembly loyal to the FCT Minister on the other hand, was brought…
The Adamawa State Police command has apprehended a 35-year-old man identified as Abdullaziz Mohammed, for allegedly d#filing a 5-year-old minor, in Mubi North Local Government Area. In a press statement issued, the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Sulieman Yahaya Nguroje, said the suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged by the victim’s father, at…
Image by Koshu Kunii. 22 years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the…
