Nigeria, March 17 -- Rivers State remains a boiling cauldron despite the recent Supreme Court judgment on its long-drawn political crisis. The final judicial pronouncement, expected to have calmed the dissension, has not, with the rebuff of Governor Siminalayi Fubara's offer of an olive branch by the 27 lawmakers led by Martins Amaewhule, who spurned the move for a dialogue on their differences.

Instead, the legislative assembly chose to issue a warrant of arrest of the Chairman of Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) and some of its commissioners. Mr Fubara, in a letter dated 7 March, issued by the Secretary to the State Government, Tammy Danagogo, called for the dialogue, which had, among other agenda listed, the re-su...