Tinubu Asks Nationwide Meeting To Approve ₦1.481 Trillion 2025 Rivers Price range
President Bola Tinubu has transmitted the ₦1.481 trillion 2025 Rivers State finances to the Nationwide Meeting.
All Information Newspaper studies that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, learn Tinubu’s request throughout Thursday’s plenary.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio additionally learn the letter on the ground of the crimson chamber.
Within the breakdown, Tinubu stated ₦324 billion is proposed for infrastructure, ₦166 billion for the well being sector, ₦75.6 billion for schooling, and ₦31.4 billion for agriculture.
The president requested the Home to contemplate and move the appropriation invoice expeditiously.
On April 3, the Rivers State sole administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas, stated the state will quickly have a brand new 2025 finances.
Ibas stated the finances would prioritise schooling, healthcare, social companies, and infrastructural growth.
Recall that on March 18, 2025, Tinubu suspended the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, alongside his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and all members of the Rivers Meeting for six months.
Tinubu additionally declared a state of emergency within the oil-rich state, citing a protracted political disaster.
The President subsequently named an ex-naval chief, Ibok-Ete Ibas, as sole administrator for Rivers.
In different information, the President of Ijaw Nationwide Congress (INC), Benjamin Okaba, has warned folks of Niger Delta to stay alert and struggle divide and rule scheme being applied within the area.
The Professor of Sociology, Okaba, stated the Rivers State political disaster is a programmed state seize that the orchestrators hope to implement in the entire Niger Delta area.
Professor Okaba acknowledged this whereas talking at Information Central City Corridor in Rivers State on Thursday.
“Let me disappoint those that anticipate me to talk because the president of the Ijaw Nationwide Congress; I’m going to speak as a professor of sociology,” he stated. “I’ve listened to all of the contributions, and it isn’t shocking that we’re a divided home,” he added.
INC’s President famous that “Rivers matter is a symptom of a failing political system. It’s about state seize; whenever you say state seize, it isn’t in regards to the seize of River State, it’s in regards to the Niger Delta.”
