TUESDAY March 18, 2025 |TheNewsDESK
By Idorenyin UMOREN
Security Evaluator
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, evening, declared a statement of emergency in Rivers State, thereby suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy for a period of six months.
In their place, President Tinubu has appointed a former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Ikwe Ibas, as the Sole Administrator of the State.
President Tinubu said in a national broadcast that his decisions were to forestall further breakdown of law and order in the State bedevilled by political crisis for almost a year now.
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