Nigeria, April 11 -- The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has moved its 2025 Annual General Conference, earlier scheduled for Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to Enugu in Enugu State, citing the emergency rule in the oil-rich state.

President Bola Tinubu, on 18 March, declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended all elected officials, including Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

Mr Tinubu cited the attack on an oil pipeline and the protracted political crisis in the state caused by the feud between Governor Fubara and the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, as the reason for the emergency rule. He appointed Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired vice admiral of the Nigerian Navy, as the state's sole administrator.

In a statement on Thursday signed by it...