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Why Rivers Women Walk Out Of Remi Tinubu’s Empowerment Programme
Why Rivers Women Walk Out Of Remi Tinubu’s Empowerment Programme
Why Rivers women walk out of Remi Tinubu’s empowerment programme, protest presence of Iba’s wife. On March 18, President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers.
Scores of women on Friday walked out of an empowerment programme facilitated by President Bola Tinubu’s wife, Remi, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The angry women were protesting the presence of Theresa Ibas, wife of the sole administrator of the state, at the venue of the programme held at the EUI Event Centre, GRA, Port Harcourt.
They were dressed in a wrapper and clad in a white vest with a scarf bearing the name of the suspended governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara.
Trouble started when the wife of the state’s sole administrator, Mrs Ibas, was invited to address the women and give her speech.
In a video by Channels TV, the women stood up in protest — chanting, “Bring Back Fubara, we don’t know Ibas.”
They were also demanding that the wife of the suspended Rivers governor, Valerie Fubara, should address them instead of the wife of the administrator of the state, Mrs Ibas.
“We want SIM!” and “We want Valerie Fubara!”one of the women shouted in the video footage.
Addressing journalists after disrupting the programme, one of the protesting women said they were mobilised for an empowerment programme to benefit 500 women in the state.
She added that the organisers also told them they would use the opportunity to meet with Mrs Tinubu.
“We were told the First Lady of Nigeria would be here,” she said.
According to her, “If not her, then the wife of our governor, Lady Valerie Sim-Fubara, should speak to us.
“Not someone representing someone who doesn’t represent us. We don’t know Ibas. Tinubu is our president, and our governor is Sim Fubara.”
Rivers Women Walk Out Of Remi Tinubu
It was learnt that all efforts by the organisers to pacify the protesting women and calm their nerves proved abortive, as many of them angrily left the programme.
Busola Kukoyi, the spokeswoman for Mrs Tinubu, could not be immediately reached for comments.
On March 18, President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers amid the political crisis in the state between Mr Fubara and his predecessor, the current minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike.
Mr Tinubu immediately appointed a sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, a decision that did not go down well with many residents and groups in the state.
Critics of the president have also described the appointment of Mr Ibas as unconstitutional and a flagrant abuse of power by Mr Tinubu.
FCTA Confirms Antivenom Stock, Warns Negligent Hospitals, Gives Emergency Lines
FCTA confirms antivenom stock, warns negligent hospitals, gives emergency lines. The FCTA said all public hFCTA confirms antivenom stock, warns negligent hospitals, gives emergency linesospitals have sufficient antivenom after singer Ifunanya Nwangene’s death at FMC Jabi. Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe warned facilities to follow protocols or face sanctions, stressing that early treatment is critical.
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The territory has added 12 ambulances, improved ICUs, and centralized antivenom storage.
Residents are urged to use emergency lines 090157892931 or 090157892932.
FCT Police Warn NLC Against Planned Abuja Protest, Say Proscribed Groups Plot To Hijack
FCT Police warn NLC against planned Abuja protest, say proscribed groups plot to hijack. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) against its planned protest scheduled for Tuesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The NLC leadership had fixed February 3 for a solidarity rally along with members of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and the Joint Union Action Committee (JUAC) at the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) secretariat in Garki Area 11.
The NLC declared that the rally is to publicly affirm that “an injury to one is an injury to all”, adding that the Nigerian labour movement will not abandon its members.
On January 24, the labour body declared support for the indefinite strike by workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), describing the action as “necessary and heroic” in response to alleged violation of workers’ rights.
In a statement, Joe Ajaero, NLC president, said the labour union stood “in very strong solidarity” with FCTA workers under the aegis of JUAC.
Ajaero described the strike as “a necessary and heroic response to a vicious cocktail of neoliberal attacks, gross administrative impunity, and a systematic violation of the fundamental rights of workers by the FCTA management and its political leadership”.
However, in a statement on Monday, Josephine Adeh, FCT police spokesperson, said the command respects the constitutional right to peaceful assembly, but noted that intelligence reports indicate “plans by proscribed groups and other non-state actors to infiltrate and hijack the protest, posing a risk to public peace and safety”.
Adeh said in the interest of public safety, the organisers should consider rescheduling the protest to prevent any breakdown of law and order and to protect lives, property, and the rights of other residents.
Police
“The Command remains committed to safeguarding all lawful activities and urges residents to continue cooperating with security agencies to keep the FCT peaceful and secure,” the statement reads.
Meanwhile, the national industrial court has reportedly issued an interim order restraining the NLC, TUC and JUAC from embarking on the planned protest.
The court had earlier ordered workers on the payroll of the FCT administration to suspend the strike.
Emmanuel Subilim, the presiding judge, held that although the matter before the court amounted to a trade dispute, the defendants’ right to embark on industrial action was not absolute.
Akwa Ibom Indigenes Protest RMAFC Meeting, Warn Against Tampering With State’s Oil Wells
Akwa Ibom indigenes protest RMAFC meeting, warn against tampering with State’s Oil Wells. Akwa Ibom indigenes resident in Abuja on Tuesday stormed the venue of a meeting of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), where the Inter-Agency Technical Committee (IATC) on Disputed/New Oil Wells was sitting, to protest what they described as attempts to reopen a matter already settled by the Supreme Court.
The protesters cautioned that no individual or agency should tamper with Akwa Ibom State’s 76 oil wells, stressing that the ownership of the wells was conclusively determined in favour of the state by the Supreme Court in 2012.
They insisted that any move to revisit the issue through administrative or technical processes would amount to a disregard for the authority of the apex court and could undermine peace in the Niger Delta region.
Akwa Ibom State was formally represented at the IATC meeting by a high-powered delegation comprising leading legal practitioners, government officials and technocrats. Members of the delegation included Paul Usoro, SAN; Assam Assam, SAN; the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Uko Udom, SAN; Uwemedimo Nwoko, SAN; Emmanuel Enoidem, SAN; and a former Attorney-General of Akwa Ibom State.
Akwa Ibom Indigenes Protest RMAFC Meeting
Also on the state’s delegation were the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Emem Bob, Former Attorney General and Commissioner Justice, Barr. Ekpenyong Ntekim; the Commissioner for Information, Dr. Aniekan Umanah; Honourable Member representing Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency, Dr Patrick Umoh, among others.
The delegation is expected to present Akwa Ibom State’s position before the committee, reiterating that the Supreme Court judgment remains final and binding, and urging all relevant federal agencies to respect and uphold the ruling.
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