Author: Amina Mohammed

Lawyers for Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor began an appeal Friday after a woman won a civil court damages claim over her allegation that he raped her. The appeal comes as the fighter announced plans to run in Ireland’s presidential election this year. Last November McGregor was ordered by an Irish court to pay damages to the woman who claimed that he “brutally raped and battered” her in a hotel in Dublin in 2018. McGregor claimed they had consensual sex and shook his head as the jury returned their verdict awarding damages of 248,603 euros ($258,559) to Nikita…

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), has announced the release of withheld local government allocations. The former Chief of Naval Staff made this known during a meeting with Heads of Local Government Administrators on Friday in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Ibas stated that necessary steps would be taken to promptly pay workers’ salaries and also expressed concern over the delay in salary payments across local government areas, acknowledging the struggles of affected workers. “I feel the pain of the workers,” he said, assuring them that the withheld allocations had been released and that his administration…

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River, Venatius Ikem, suspended from office for alleged misconduct, financial mismanagement and failure of the party during the 2024 local government elections, has been reinstated to fully resume office. While addressing journalists on Friday at the party’s Secretariat in Calabar, Ikem disclosed that he has been “exonerated and acquitted” of the allegations of gross misconduct made against him. He stated that his return would boost the party’s fame and regain the lost glory, saying that “the party may have fallen and stumbled, but our party will rise to take its rightful…

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has strongly opposed the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, declared a state of emergency in the state, suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly for six months. Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (retd) was then appointed as the Sole Administrator for Rivers State. In his biweekly newsletter, The Business of Governance Issue 110, published on Thursday evening, Makinde described the move as an illegal act that should be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians. “I stand today to say…

In a repeat of the 2013 coalition of opposition forces that coalesced to the All Progressives Congress (APC) which terminated the administration of Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi and the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai have kick-started a movement aimed at ending President Bola Tinubu’s rule in 2027. This was confirmed by Atiku yesterday who read the text of a press conference addressed by a cross-section of leaders and political stakeholders from across the country, in Abuja to express…

Suspended Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara has maintained innocence in the attacks on oil installations in the State before the declaration of emergency rule by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Fubara in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Nelson Chukwudi, said the Presidency was misinformed by persons saddled with the responsibilities of intelligence gathering. The statement said: “Our attention has been drawn to a number of allegations claiming that Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, did nothing to dissuade criminal groups and militants from making good their threats to attack oil installations in the State. “There was also another…

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command from the Morogbo Division in Badagry have apprehended a man for stabbing his wife to death over an allegation of infidelity. The suspect identified as Peter Dike and his wife, a 38-year-old woman were said to have engaged in a scuffle due to alleged infidelity from the woman. The suspect narrated to the police what led him to grab a kitchen knife to stab his wife in the stomach which resulted in her death on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Spokesman of the Lagos Police Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to newsmen,…

The Sole Administrator for Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (rtd), has arrived in the state to resume duties. Ibas arrived at the Port Harcourt International Airport at about 11:25 am on Thursday and was received by top officials and security personnel. The sole administrator, accompanied by the state Commissioner of Police, Olugbenga Adepoju and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 16, immediately proceeded to Government House, Port Harcourt afterwards. Ibas, who was sworn-in on Wesdnesday by President Bola Tinubu has already arrived at the Government House and was conducted around by some government officials. He is currently in…

Opposition leaders on Thursday advised Nigerians to resist a brazen assault on the nation’s constitution following President Bola Tinubu’s suspension of Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. The group, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, and ex-governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, converged on Thursday in Abuja. Tinubu’s declaration of emergency in Rivers and Fubara’s suspension is a trending topic that has divided Nigerians, with the opposition leaders urging the National Assembly to reject it. Addressing members of the press on behalf of the group, Atiku said, “This action is…

The suspended Senator representing Kogi Central in the Senate, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has maintained that her suspension was a direct consequence of her accusations of sexual harassment against Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Akpoti-Uduaghan claimed in an interview with Sky News on Wednesday that Akpabio told her she had to “please him” to enjoy her privileges as a Senator, describing her suspension as what she believed to be a calculated attempt to silence her. “I made an allegation of sexual harassment against the President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on the fifth day of March 2025 and the very next…