Just in: Rivers People Await Fubara’s Return, Storm P’Harcourt International Airport

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

Hundreds of indigenes and residents of Rivers State, early hours of today (Friday), stormed the Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa, awaiting the arrival of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, two days after President Bola Tinubu lifted the state of emergency imposed on the state.

President Tinubu had on Wednesday, announced the revocation of the six-month Emergency Rule in the State.

In celebration, Rivers people stormed the Government House in Port Harcourt, to welcome him but were disappointed that he was not yet back in the state to resume work.

Meanwhile, at the Airport this morning, Fubara’s supporters were sighted performing cultural display as they await his return. At the VIP wing, THISDAY sighted Fubara’s supporters all awaiting his return.

It was also observed that non of the other parties in the struggle that led to the emergency rule were at the Airport. Most of his supporters who were his commissioners, Special Aides, disbanded local government chairmen, were at the airport to welcome him back to the State.

As at the time of filing this report, the governor has yet to arrive the airport.

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    Laleye Dipo in Minna

    The National Examination Council NECO on Wednesday released the results of the Senior Secondary School Examination SSCE it conducted between June and July this year with 818,492 candidates recording five credits and above in five subjects and above including Mathematics and English.

    The results were released 54 days after the conduct of the last paper.

    1,144,496 students also recorded five credits and above irrespective of mathematics and English in the examination.

    A total number of 1,367,310 candidates registered for the examination, with 1,358,339, made up of 680,292 males and 678,047 female, sat for the examination.

    The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi who released the results said 3,878 candidates were involved in various forms of examination malpractices as against 10,094 candidates last year.

    Professor Wushishi disclosed that during the examinations 38 schools were found to have been involved “in whole school cheating” in 13 states adding that the schools would be invited to the council for “discussion” after which “appropriate sanctions will be applied”.

    The Registrar also revealed that 9 supervisors with 3 in Rivers state, 1 in Niger, 3 in Federal Capital Territory FCT,1 in Kano state and 1 in Osun state.

    The affected supervisors Wushishi said wre recommended for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding and abetting , lateness unruly behaviour assault and insurbodination”

    On the issue of 8 schools affected by communal clash which resulted in the disruption of the examinations from 7th to 25th July Wushishi said 13 subjects and 29 papers were affected.

    ” We have since commenced talks with the state government with a view to conducting the examinations for the affected schools” he said adding that ” this means the results of eight affected schools cannot be released now because they are incomplete”.

    Wushishi said candidates could access their results on NECO website.

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    Inflation Drops to 20.12%

    Inflation Drops to 20.12%

    James Emejo in Abuja

    The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services, dropped to 20.12 per cent in August compared to
    21.88 per cent in the preceding month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday.
    Year on year, headline inflation stood at 12.03 per cent lower than 32.15 per cent in August 2024.
    According to the CPI Report for the month under review, inflation decreased in August compared to the same month in the preceding, albeit after rebasing.
    Month on month, headline inflation stood at 0.74 per cent, lower than 1.99 per cent in July.
    Food inflation dropped to 21.87per cent year on year in August compared to 37.52 per cent in the corresponding period of 2024.
    The NBS however, explained that the significant decline in annual food inflation was technically due to the change in the base year.
    Nonetheless, the food index dropped to 1.65 per cent month on month in August compared to 3.12 per cent in July.
    The statistical agency further attributed the decrease to reduction in average prices of imported and local rice, guinea corn flour, maize flour sold loose, guinea corn (sorghum), millet, semolina, soya milk among others.
    Also, the average annual rate of food inflation for the 12 months ending August 2025 over the previous 12-month average was 25.75 per cent compared to 36.99 per cent in August 2024.
    Core inflation, which excludes the prices of volatile agricultural produces and energy dropped to 20.33 per cent year on year in August, decline of 7.25 per cent compared to 27.58 per cent recorded in August 2024.
    Month-on-month, the core index however, rose to 1.43 per cent compared to July 0.97 per cent in July.
    The average 12-month annual inflation rate was 23.04 per cent for the 12 months ending August 2025. This was 2.14 per cent lower than the 25.18 per cent recorded in August 2024, according the NBS.

    Details later…

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