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Emergency Rule: Fubara hits back at Tinubu cancels ₦134 Billion Secretariat Contract, Demands ₦20 Billion Refund

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2025

The Rivers State Executive Council has terminated the ₦134 billion contract awarded to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) for the renovation, retrofitting, and furnishing of the Rivers State Secretariat Complex. Additionally, the council has mandated the immediate

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Wike, Fubara Hold Peace Meeting With Rivers Elders in Port Harcourt

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, met on Saturday with members of the Rivers State Elders Council in Port Harcourt amid efforts to consolidate peace and unity within the state’s political circle. Also in attendance were the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, and […]

COLUMNS

Rivers State: Running a fool’s errand…

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the Wednesday, 24 September, 2025 edition ofthe New Telegraph newspaper). “Between the Rivers state sole administrator who just completed his six-month state of emergency rule over the oil-rich state and the state’s House of Assembly members […]

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Tinubu Immortalises Ogoni Four, Sets Stage for Oil Resumption in Ogoniland

Daily Dispatch September 24, 2025

President Bola Tinubu has immortalised four slain Ogoni leaders—Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Theophilus Orage, and Samuel Orage—by bestowing on them posthumous national honours of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON). The announcement came on Wednesday at the State House, Abuja, during the presentation of the Ogoni Consultations Committee report. Rivers State

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Fubara Meets Tinubu, Seeks Guidance on Sustaining Rivers Peace

Daily Dispatch September 23, 2025

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday declared that he is at peace with his political mentor and that stability has returned to the state after months of turbulence. Speaking to journalists at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, following a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu, Fubara said the political feud that plunged Rivers into crisis […]

COLUMNS

Fubara: Is half-bread better than none?

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 21 September, 2025). “Last Thursday was a day of missed feelings for me – day of joy and day of mourning!” “The conditionalities imposed on Fubara to bring him back as governor were more […]