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The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has solidified his position in the Peoples Democratic Party leadership crisis as the National Working Committee endorsed the Rivers State congresses. Wike’s loyalists within the PDP NWC not only secured the approval but also postponed the National Executive Committee meeting, originally set for September 26, to October 24, which could have overturned ...

The Arewa Democratic Front (ADF), an organization deeply committed to the principles of sustainable development, equity, and the preservation of democratic ideals across Northern Nigeria since 2007, has written to express its profound concern over what it calls “the reckless and destabilizing remarks made by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, at the recent PDP State Congress ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike to “disclose details of any Chinese loans, liabilities, and other external borrowing obtained, and guaranteed by the Federal Government as well the terms and conditions for any such borrowing including the provisions on collateral.” SERAP urged ...

  Former local government chairmen in Rivers State and allies of former governor Nyesom Wike have accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of sponsoring the Tuesday attack by hunger protesters on the Port Harcourt house of Wike, his predecessor. They warned that Fubara did not have the monopoly of violence and threatened to mobilise their men to equally unleash an attack on ...

    In continuation of the ongoing nationwide protests in different parts of Nigeria, the #EndBadGovernance protesters have reportedly stormed the residence of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to demonstrate against the hike in the cost of living in the country. The Punch reported that the protesters, seen in large numbers in a viral video ...

Controversial social media critic, Martin Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has alleged that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is attempting to bully the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters by restricting them to the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. The Punch reported that VeryDarkMan, who spoke moments before police teargassed protesters at the Berger Roundabout in Abuja on Friday, said ...

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has nullified the expulsion of a former speaker of the Rivers House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, and 24 other lawmakers from the assembly. A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt, in May, barred the lawmakers from parading themselves as members of the state’s House of Assembly after they defected from the PDP to the ...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has appointed caretaker committees for the 23 local government areas of Rivers State as he continues his battle with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, for the control of the political structure in the oil-rich state. The appointment came a day after the governor asked administrative heads to temporarily take charge of council areas from the outgoing elected ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Wild beasts have always inhabited Rivers State political jungle. There was a time riverine/upland dichotomy was a serious a factor in the state. It still is. From 1967 when the state was created, riverine politicians were at the helm until 1999. King Alfred Diete-Spiff, an Ijaw, was the first military administrator of the old Rivers state. He ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for the spending of trillions of FAAC allocations collected by their states and the FCT since 1999.” The suit followed reports that the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) disbursed ...