{"id":155790,"date":"2025-03-19T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:07:30","slug":"tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu swears in Ibas as Rivers Sole Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd) as the new Sole Administrator of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The swearing in ceremony, which took place on Wednesday at the State House, Abuja was witnessed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi and many others.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu, on Tuesday night, declared a state of emergency in the state in a bid to end the lingering political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The President suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and all the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly for an initial period of six months.<\/p>\n<p>Following the proclamation, the President announced the appointment of Vice Admiral Ibok-E\u0301te\u0300 Ibas as the sole administrator to oversee the state\u2019s affairs pending when normalcy is restored.<\/p>\n<p>Ibas served as Chief of Naval Staff from 2015 to 2021 under former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd) as the new Sole Administrator of Rivers State. The swearing in ceremony, which took place on Wednesday at the State House, Abuja was witnessed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[1578,16417,254,421,11720,945],"class_list":["post-155790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-breaking","tag-ibas","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers","tag-rivers-crisis","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu swears in Ibas as Rivers Sole Administrator - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd) as the new Sole Administrator of Rivers State. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu swears in Ibas as Rivers Sole Administrator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd) as the new Sole Administrator of Rivers State. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-19T16:38:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T17:07:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742393521.335408.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu swears in Ibas as Rivers Sole Administrator\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-19T16:38:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-03T17:07:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742393521.335408.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"breaking\",\"Ibas\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers\",\"Rivers crisis\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-swears-in-ibas-as-rivers-sole-administrator\",\"name\":\"Tinubu swears in Ibas as Rivers Sole Administrator - 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