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Sep

2025

Rivers People Should Know Fubara’s Agreement terms With Tinubu — Briggs

POLITICS#AhmedBolaTinubu, #NyesomWike, #NyesomWike-FubaraCrisis, #Riverscrisis, #SiminalayiFubara, Ann-KioBriggs, Fubara'srestoration

Rivers People Deserve To Know Fubara's Agreement terms With Tinubu — Briggs Niger Delta rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs has envisioned that Governor Fubara's credibility could become questionable before the right thinking members of the state, if accountability is discarded. This is following the recent reinstallation of Mr. Siminalayi Fubara as the Governor of the state. Niger Delta rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has said that the people of Rivers State deserve to know the terms of agreement between Governor Siminilayi Fubara and President Bola Tinubu before the six-month emergency rule ended in the state. Briggs, made this statement during an interview…

Sep

2025

By Famous Reporters

Emergency Rule in Nigeria: A Troubled Journey from 1962 to Tinubu

OPINION#Abubakartafawabalewa, #BarrMondayUbani, #BolaAhmedTinubu, #Emergencyruleinrivers, #Nigeria'sfirststateofemergency, #NyesomWike-FubaraCrisis, #Riverscrisis, #SiminalayiFubara

Emergency Rule in Nigeria: A Troubled Journey from 1962 to Tinubu Emergency powers are designed to be constitutional safety valves for exceptional times of crisis. In Nigeria, however, their invocation has often been controversial, as leaders have sometimes used them to suspend democratic institutions. From the Western Region crisis of 1962 to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent six-month intervention in Rivers State, the central question has remained constant: should emergencies be managed within the framework of democracy or through the temporary dismantling of elected structures to restore peace? Nigeria’s first state of emergency came in May 1962, declared by Prime…