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Rivers: We’ll have to defend ourselves if the Police cant defend us – Briggs
Rivers-based environmentalist and human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has slammed the Nigeria Police Force for its operations in the state.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, on Monday, Briggs said if nobody would defend Rivers people, they would definitely defend themselves.
According to her, the police cherry-pick court orders to obey even after the election of 23 local government chairmen in the state.
She lambasted the police for withdrawing officers from the local council secretariats despite the warning of Governor Siminalayi Fubara on Sunday evening that some political actors displeased with the outcome of the poll have plans to perpetrate mayhem.
“If nobody will defend us, we are very likely going to be left to have to defend ourselves.
We’ve been crying out since last October since this political madness started.
The witch cried in the night and the child died in the morning and we are looking for the cause of the death? No. We know exactly what is going on.
“We know that the specific local governments that are on fire are the specific local governments that have refused to accept that their tenures have been over three months ago.
The specific local governments are the same local governments that their leaders have called the governor all sorts of names since last year.
“We have a police force that for the past three months have had the 23 local government offices of Rivers State under lock and key after the tenure of the local government chairmen had expired.
“And this morning, all of them were ordered to leave the local government areas knowing well that there was going to be trouble, leaving the newly elected local government chairmen in danger,” she said.
The right activist stated that the people of the state had called on President Bola Tinubu for over a year to intervene but he chose to stay away.
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President Tinubu nominates Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance
Before President Tinubu nominated him as a minister, Oyedele(from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State), was the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.
Taiwo Oyedele and President Tinubu. Credit: State House Photo
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as the minister of state for finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka.
Anite-Uzoka will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State, her third portfolio in the administration. President Tinubu has today conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Before President Tinubu nominated him as a minister, Oyedele(from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State), was the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.
He attended Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in accountancy and finance.
He attended Oxford Brookes University and earned a BSc in applied accounting.
He also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years of his working career at PwC, joined in 2001 and rose to become the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
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Senate postpones plenary resumption to March 10
The leadership of the Senate urged all Distinguished Senators to take note of the new date and time for resumption, while expressing regret over any inconvenience the change might have caused.
The Senate has postponed the resumption of its plenary session earlier scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2026.
The development was contained in a notice issued on the directive of the President of the Senate, Godswill Obot Akpabio.
In the notice, signed by the Clerk to the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, the plenary will now reconvene in the Senate Chamber on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
The leadership of the Senate urged all Distinguished Senators to take note of the new date and time for resumption, while expressing regret over any inconvenience the change might have caused.
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National Police Council Ratifies Disu’s Appointment
Disu is now expected to proceed to the senate for confirmation as the last hurdle before attaining a substantive position as the IGP.
The National Police Council has ratified the appointment of Olatunji Disu as the acting Inspector General of Police.
The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu , the third National Police Council session under his administration since taking office.
Disu was nominated by the president last week following the resignation of Kayode Egbetokun .
Disu is now expected to proceed to the senate for confirmation as the last hurdle before attaining a substantive position as the IGP
The National Police Council is responsible for the organisation, administration and operational oversight of the Nigeria Police Force, including the appointment and discipline of senior officers.Governors of Kwara, Ogun, Lagos, Ondo, Enugu and Plateau states attended the meeting, alongside the ministers of Police Affairs, the Federal Capital Territory and Interior.
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