Category: Politics

Suspended Senator from Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has instituted a N5billion defamation case against her colleague, Sen. Onyekachi Nwaebonyi for alleging that she had six children for different men. The case was filed through her team of lawyers led by Mr. M. J. Numa, SAN. Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan described Nwaebonyi’s claim as false, and a deliberate attempt to tarnish her reputation. She told the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, that Nwaebonyi who represents Ebonyi North Central Senatorial District, had severely injured her reputation, caused her considerable distress and…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated reasons for rejecting a petition to recall the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from the National Assembly. The commission stated that the petition did not meet provisions of the 1999 Constitution as expressly stated in Section 69(a) of the Constitution. According to a statement issued after a meeting and full deliberation on the matter on Thursday, April 3, 2025, the electoral commission stated: “Among other issues, the meeting considered and approved the report of its physical count of the signatures/thumbprints forwarded…

There was palpable tension on Tuesday during the hearing of a sexual harassment petition filed by Kogi Central lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as the same members of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Petitions engaged in a heated exchange with former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili. While the senators engaged Ezekwesili in a war of words, the Independent National Electoral Commission gave the embattled Kogi lawmaker temporary respite as it faulted the petitioners for not complying with the recall guidelines. Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended by the Senate on March 6 following…

Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who was assigned to hear a suit that was filed by the suspended Senator for Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, has hands off the case. The trial judge based his decision on a petition the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, wrote to challenge his objectivity in the matter. Though the suit was originally fixed for hearing, however, when the matter was called up by the court’s clerk, Justice Egwuatu, announced his decision in a short ruling he delivered. He said…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan blamed key actors across the executive, legislature, and judiciary of abusing power, over the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State. Jonathan who spoke at the annual colloquium of the Haske Satumari Foundation on Saturday in Abuja, said the state of emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu was a clear abuse of power. According to the former president, those in power know the right thing to do but are deliberately ignoring it. Jonathan, who didn’t mention President Bola Tinubu directly, accused government officials…

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, declared a state of emergency in Rivers state following the two-year political crisis ravaging the state. In a 1003-word nationwide broadcast, the President suspended the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly for six months. He appointed former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas, retd, as administrator, and the appointment is subject to the confirmation of the National Assembly. With the development, Rivers has become the sixth state, after Plateau, Ekiti, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa,…

The raging battle between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly members took a new dimension as the assembly members have commenced impeachment process against the governor and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, over alleged gross misconduct. The 26 members of the assembly in the document signed and dated March 14, 2025, and addressed to the Speaker through the Clerk of the House indicated that they have found Governor Fubara and his Deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, guilty of gross misconduct. The lawmakers, in a notice titled,…