Author: David Great

Twenty-four of the Rivers Assembly’s 32 members have signed a resolution to impeach Governor Siminialayi Fubara. They presented Fubara with an impeachment notice after impeaching and suspending House Leader Edison Ehie, who is thought to be on the Governor’s side. The legislators made the decisions during an extraordinary session on Monday morning. The unusual meeting took place on Monday between 7 and 9 a.m. Rivers: I have committed no offence to warrant impeachment – Fubara Although journalists were not permitted to attend the meeting, Chronicle NG learned that all 24 members who signed the impeachment notification were there. Ehie did…

Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the February 25, 2023 election, believes the Supreme Court’s October 26, 2023 ruling, while definitive, left much to be desired. The former Vice President made the remarks during a news conference in the nation’s capital, Abuja, on Monday. He argued that the All Progressives Congress (APC) nominee at the time, Bola Tinubu, was ineligible to run in the February 2023 presidential election. He accused the Supreme Court and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of facilitating illegality, identity theft, impersonation, certificate fabrication, and perjury. When people lose faith in the…

Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara stated on Monday that he has committed no crimes that merit impeachment by the Rivers State House of Assembly. “Let them come out and tell the Rivers people what offence I have committed to warrant any impeachment,” the governor urged supporters at the Assembly Complex. The governor, who promised the people of the state that they would reap the dividends of democracy, stated that he would address the issue at the proper moment. “Let me assure the Rivers people that I will continue to ensure that you reap the dividends of democracy. At the appropriate…

A suspected bomb blast during a Christian prayer meeting in India’s southern state of Kerala killed two people and wounded more than 35 others, police said Sunday. More than 2,000 people were attending a three-day Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting at a convention centre in Kalamassery near the port city of Kochi when the blast ripped through the crowd. “At about 9:40 am (0410 GMT) approximately there was an explosion in Zamra International Convention Centre in which one person died and 36 are undergoing treatment,” Director General of Police of Kerala Darvesh Saheb told reporters. “We will find out who is behind…

Erling Haaland scored twice as Manchester City inflicted more pain on Manchester United with a 3-0 win at Old Trafford to close within two points of Premier League leaders Tottenham. Haaland slotted home from the penalty spot midway through the first half and headed in a second just after half-time before setting up Phil Foden for City’s third. City began the match outside the top four after an indifferent start to their title defence. But Pep Guardiola’s men remain the favourites for an unprecedented fourth consecutive English top-flight title and showed they are a class apart from their local rivals…

Liverpool swept aside Nottingham Forest 3-0 on Sunday as Aston Villa joined them in the Premier League top four ahead of the Manchester derby at Old Trafford. Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez, and Mohamed Salah were on target for Liverpool, who were without Luis Diaz after his parents were kidnapped in Colombia. Jota gave Liverpool a 31st-minute lead, turning home a rebound after Matt Turner had made a save. In celebration, he ran to manager Jurgen Klopp, who handed him a miniature Diaz number seven shirt to hold aloft. Nunez doubled Liverpool’s lead four minutes later with an emphatic near-post finish…

Two businessmen, ThankGod Emenike and Chidike Prince, both from Lagos, were detained by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for carrying cocaine and heroin in their stomachs on flights to Hong Kong and France. On Friday, October 20, and Saturday, October 21, officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) apprehended the suspects at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Agbo Tochukwu was also apprehended by NDLEA agents while attempting to board an aircraft to Oman with 58 packets of skunk totaling 29.10kgs. In a statement issued on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman Femi…

Alhaji Magaji Makau, the district head of Ruwan Rana in Zamfara State’s Bukkuyum Local Government Area, and five others have been kidnapped by bandits. The bandits on motorbikes were said to have invaded the village on Saturday night and started firing intermittently, prompting inhabitants to flee for safety. The state’s police command is yet to confirm the new attack. A resident of Bukkuyum town, told Chronicle NG that as the gunmen reached the settlement, locals ran into hiding because they knew the bandits were come to abduct them. Gunmen kill vigilante, abduct residents in Kaduna He said that the bandits…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “to use the mandates of INEC to pursue constitutional and legal reforms that would explicitly recognize Nigerians’ right to vote and to vote securely in free, fair and honest elections as a fundamental right.” SERAP also urged him “to promote constitutional and legal reforms that would contain explicit mandatory provisions on internet voter registration, and the use of modern technology, including in casting and counting, voter registration and systems for reporting results.” In the letter dated 28 October 2023 and…

The thirteen prosecution witness, PW13, in the trial of Ayo Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, Abubakar Aliyu Madaki, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Friday, October 27, 2023, told Justice Chukujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, that the sum of N1,219,000,000 received by the former governor, from former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, came from the imprest accounts domiciled in the office of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). Fayose and Spotless Investment Limited were re- arraigned on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 on 11-count charges bordering…