Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the state’s 2026 Appropriation Bill into law. The governor assented to the bill on Thursday at the Government House in Port Harcourt shortly after the Rivers State House of Assembly passed it. The bill was approved unanimously by 26 lawmakers during the Assembly’s resumed sitting in Port Harcourt. …
Seventeen members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, including the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, on Friday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), deepening the latest round of political tensions in the state. Amaewhule announced the decision during plenary, attributing the mass defection to what he called a “clear …
