Briga News Nigeria Philip Shaibu, The Deputy Governor of Edo State, has been impeached by the House of Assembly. The lawmakers removed Shaibu, who has been having a running battle with Governor Godwin Obaseki, on Monday. Shaibu had refused to honour invitations extended to him by the seven-man panel which investigated allegations against him. After…
Briga News Nigeria Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri alongside his wife, Dr. (Mrs.) Gloria Diri, today voted at Kalama-owei in Sampou community, Kolokuma/Opokuma in the ongoing Local Government council election in the State. Governor Diri voted in Ward 6, polling Unit 4 in the community. The Governor who described the voting process as hitch-free,…
Briga News Nigeria Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has issued a firm directive against the impersonation of members on a purported fake list of caretaker committee members for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This list, which gained traction on social media and was reported in national newspapers on Thursday, was officially denounced by Fubara as…
Briga News Nigeria The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio has written legal luminary, Femi Falana SAN on his petition over the suspension of the Senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Abdul Ningi. Akpabio, through his counsel Kalu Uche SAN in a reply addressed to Falana and Falana Chambers queried why Ningi’s lawyers accused him of…
Briga News Nigeria The immediate past Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has informed members of Abia State PDP caucus that he has no plan to leave the party but will rather stay with others to rebuild it. Speaking during a well attended caucus meeting held at the new party secretariat at Onyerubi Crescent,…
Briga News Nigeria The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Isaacs Kekemeke, on Tuesday, declared his intention to join the Ondo State governorship race on the platform of the ruling party. He made the declaration a few days before the party’s primary slated for April 20, 2024. No fewer than 15 chieftains…
Briga News Nigeria The attention of Wike Generation Next has been drawn to a statement credited to the governor of Rivers State, Siminialayim Fubara wherein he threatened that he would surprise the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Pres. Bola Ahmed Tinubu should the president take him for granted. To say the governor threatened…
Briga News Nigeria The Peoples Democratic Party Rivers State Chapter has told the 27 Lawmakers who defected from the PDP to the APC in Rivers State to stop disturbing the peace of the State but allow the Court determine their eroded legitimacy status. PDP State Publicity Secretary, Hon Sydney Tambari Gbara who made the remark…
By Peter Jonah Vice Chairman of Ekeremor Local Government Council, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Hon Barr Dennis Degienini has congratulates Hon Isaac Onniye on his emergence as the PDP Flagbearer in the forthcoming Local Government elections in Bayelsa State. According to him, Hon Onniye’s emergence is worthwhile, timely and a choice of the Ekeremor people. In…
Briga News Nigeria Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the appointment of Prof. Nimibofa Ayawei as Secretary to the State Government (SSG). He also named Dr. Peter Pereotubo Akpe as the Chief of Staff (CoS), Government House. A press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, also stated that Mr….