COLUMNS

The Taming Of Siminalayi Fubara

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde The suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, returned to Port Harcourt last week Friday, after a six-month forced holiday. I watched in amazement as political jobbers and hangers-on swarmed him immediately, he alighted from the private jet that brought him to

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Rivers: Why Fubara may fight again!

Daily Dispatch September 20, 2025

By Ismail Omipidan The return of Governor Siminalayi Fubara after the expiration of the six-month emergency rule has been widely applauded by many Nigerians. To avoid any unguarded utterances, the governor, on his return to the state, appeared to tactfully distance himself from his army of supporters who had thronged the Rivers State Government House […]

NEWS

Full text of Stateside Broadcast by Governor Siminalayi Fubara

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2025

STATEWIDE BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY, SIR SIMINALAYI FUBARA, GSSRS, ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 My dear good people of Rivers State Recall that Rivers State was placed under a six-month emergency rule, declared by Mr. President, His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, on the 18th of March, 2025, following the intense political crisis in […]

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Fubara: I’ve Reconciled With Wike for Peace in Rivers

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2025

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has announced that he and his predecessor, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, have mended fences after months of political conflict. In a statewide broadcast on Friday, Fubara revealed that their reconciliation was part of the peace process brokered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the […]