Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated there are growing signs that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed following a massive joint military operation by Israel and the United States.

Netanyahu spoke in a televised address on Saturday evening saying that Israel’s military campaign in Iran will go on “as long as it is needed”, adding that the conflict will bring about “true peace”.

According to the Israeli leader, everyone knows that “such a murderous regime” should not have nuclear weapons that can “continue threatening the entire humankind”.

“We would like to thank the brave Iranian people, that they are being freed of those horrific ties with that regime,” he said.

He said that “Signs show that Khameini is no longer with us,” adding that airstrikes have destroyed Khameini’s compound.

“All indications show this tyrant is no longer with us,” he said.

This contradicts reports from the Iranian foreign ministry earlier claiming that the supreme leader and Iran’s president were both “safe and sound”.

Addressing the Iranian people, who he described as ‘courageous’, Netanyahu said the strikes will help them “unshackle themselves from tyranny”.

He said that Iranian people have a “once in a generation chance” to overthrow the Iranian regime, he said

He urged them to “take to the streets en masse” and “get the job done”.

It is “high time you came together” and “unite for a historic mission”, he said.

“This is an opportunity to do something. Do not sit with your arms crossed, because this moment will come and you will be demanded to go out of the streets in the masses, because you have to complete this work, and you have to bring down and eradicate this regime.”

Netanyahu said they managed to target senior members of Iran’s nuclear operation as well as senior officials.

Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has appointed Dr Dagogo Wokoma as Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and Barrister Sunny Ewule as Chief of Staff.

According to a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Onwuka Nzeshi, the two appointments take immediate effect.

The statement said Fubara will swear in the duo this Thursday, February 26, 2026, at the Executive Council Chamber of Government House, Port Harcourt, by 2:00pm.

These changes follow the Governor’s recent dissolution of his cabinet on February 12, 2026, and are viewed as part of a broader administrative repositioning following reconciliation efforts in the state’s ongoing political crisis.

The House of Representatives descended into a rowdy session on Tuesday during an emergency plenary called to reconsider the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2025.

The chaos was triggered by a motion to rescind the bill’s earlier passage from December 23, 2025, which had mandated the real-time electronic transmission of election results to the IReV portal.

During plenary, Francis Waive, chairman of the house of representatives committee on rules and business, moved a motion for the house to reverse its decision on the bill which was passed on December 23, 2025.

When Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house, put the motion to a voice vote, the “nays” were louder than the “ayes”, but he ruled that the ayes had it.

The ruling triggered protests from lawmakers, who began hollering in objection. Abbas subsequently called for an executive session, but the proposal was also rejected.

Despite the resistance, the speaker moved the house into an executive session.

When the green chamber passed the electoral act in December, it adopted a proposal mandating the real-time transmission of election results to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s result viewing portal (IReV).