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Back to Ground Zero: Who Advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Do This? I have just picked up my phone after breaking my fast to find multiple missed calls and countless messages about an alarming development: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly declared a state of emergency in Rivers State. If this is true, then I must ask: Who advised the President to take this course of action? Whoever it is, they are certainly not a friend of his administration, nor do they have the best interests of Nigeria at heart. How could the President willingly walk into a raging…

Few hours after President Bola Tinubu imposed a state of emergency in Rivers State, sacked Governor Siminalayi Fubara and appointed Vice Admiral Ibanette Ibas as Rivers State Administrator, pictures of the Naval officer and the Minister ov the FCT Nyesom Wike, has surfaced online. The pictures were likely taken when Wike was Rivers State Governor. As a general in the Nigerian Navy, Ibas undertook several duty tours across the country, especially in the riverine states. Wike has been a major player in the crisis that brought democratic rule in the state to its knees. His main rival and one-time protégé…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, Tuesday, March 18, flagged off the construction of 141 urban roads across 13 zones of the state capital, insisting that residents of the capital city and State deserved nothing but the best. The beneficiary zones are Abakpa, Achara Layout, Asata, Awkunanaw, Coal Camp, Independence Loyout, New Haven, Old GRA, Thinkers Corner, Trans-Ekulu, and Uwani. Performing the symbolic flag-off at Ologo under Coal Camp Zone, Enugu North Local Government Area (LGA) and Monaque Avenue in Awkunanaw Zone, Enugu South LGA, Mbah explained that the roads were part of his administration’s…

Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas was born in Nko, Cross River State, South South Nigeria. He enlisted into the Nigerian Defence Academy as a member of 26 Regular Course on 20 June 1979 and was commissioned sub-lieutenant on 1 January 1983. He began his primary education at Nko Primary School, Nko, in 1966 and completed at Big Qua Primary School, Calabar in 1971. He then proceeded to the prestigious Hope Waddell Training Institute Calabar from 1972 to 1976. Between 1977 and 1979, he attended the School of Basic Studies Ogoja before proceeding to the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1979.…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan President Bola Tinubu has named Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas as Sole Administrator of Rivers State in the wake of the president's proclamation of a state of emergency in the oil-laden, vote-heavy Niger Delta State tonight. He is expected to be in office for an initial period of six months. In a nationwide broadcast, Tuesday evening,March 18,2025, Tinubu said the Administrator cannot make any new laws, pointing out, however, that all regulations to be made by him will be examined and ratified by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the president himself. The declaration of emergency rule…