By JKNewsMedia POLITICAL EVENTS in Rivers State entered a new phase on Monday evening as Governor Siminalayi Fubara visited the Presidential Villa in Abuja for a private meeting with President Bola Tinubu. The engagement marked his first official presence at the State House since his reinstatement as governor after six months of emergency rul...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (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 Siminalayi Fubara to bring him back as governor were more crippling than […]...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent RIVERS STATE Governor Siminalayi Fubara returned to the state on Friday, arriving at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, after six months of suspension from office during the emergency rule imposed by President Bola Tinubu. The governor’s aircraft touched down at about 11:55am, bef...
By Gift Home, JKNewsMedia Reporter SUPPORTERS AND residents filled the surroundings of the Rivers State Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday, September 18, 2025, awaiting the return of Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Nma Odu, to office after President Bola Tinubu lifted the six-month emergency rule imposed on the sta...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter RIVERS STATE Governor Siminalayi Fubara has again written to the state House of Assembly, requesting a new date for the presentation of the 2025 appropriation bill. This follows an earlier failed attempt on March 12, when the governor and his entourage were denied entry into the Assembly premises. In a ...
DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS in Rivers State have received a boost as Governor Siminalayi Fubara signed the ₦1.18 trillion appropriation law for 2025 on Thursday. Moreover, the governor emphasised the unity of the state’s legislature, asserting that Rt Hon Victor Oko-Jumbo leads the only recognised House of Assembly in Rivers State. Also dispelling cla...
