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How we’ll best Saraki, Dogara-led 8th National Assembly – Gbajabiamila

How we’ll best Saraki, Dogara-led 8th National Assembly – Gbajabiamila

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Sunday said Nigerians should expect better service delivery from the ninth National Assembly.        …

Edo: Oyegun, Oshiomhole at each other’s throats

Edo: Oyegun, Oshiomhole at each other’s throats

Immediate past National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has added in on the crisis rocking the party in his home state, Edo, accusing his successor, Comrade Adam…

Kogi Guber: Why my father can’t impose me on our people – Ex-Gov’s son, Abubakar

Kogi Guber: Why my father can’t impose me on our people – Ex-Gov’s son, Abubakar

The eldest son of former Kogi State governor, Abubakar Ibrahim Idris has again debunked the insinuation making the rounds that his aspiration to run for the governorship position of the state was a d…

Security disperse APC lawmakers in Bauchi House of Assembly

Security disperse APC lawmakers in Bauchi House of Assembly

There was pandemonium on Thursday, June 20, when the security agents fired tear gas to disperse 20 lawmakers elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the election of spea…

Lawan drops Adedayo as media adviser

Lawan drops Adedayo as media adviser

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has rescinded the appointment of Mr. Festus Adedayo as his special adviser on Media and Publicity. No replacement has been named yet. His sack came few days afte…

Akeredolu instructed cabinet to work against APC in 2019 elections - Sacked commissioner

Akeredolu instructed cabinet to work against APC in 2019 elections - Sacked commissioner

A former commissioner for urban and physical planning in Ondo state, Sola Amodeni, says Gov Akeredolu instructed cabinet members to work for AA candidates in the 2019 elections.     &n…

Analysis: Rumbling in Edo House of Assembly as History Repeats Itself

Analysis: Rumbling in Edo House of Assembly as History Repeats Itself

The 2014 scenario in the Edo House of Assembly is replaying itself in 2019 with a“minor modification”. In 2014, the Edo House of Assembly was engulfed in crisis. That crisis resulted to the emergence…

Okorocha To Ihedioha: Sack Chris Okewulonu As Your Chief Of Staff

Okorocha To Ihedioha: Sack Chris Okewulonu As Your Chief Of Staff

Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has told the Chief of Staff to Governor Ihedioha, Chris Okewulonu, to stop abusing him.     &nbsp…

Anti-party activities: Ex-Gov Yari rejects APC’s committee report

Anti-party activities: Ex-Gov Yari rejects APC’s committee report

Former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, has described a report submitted by a five-man committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) alleging anti-party activities against him as baseless, con…

Thugs beat up Oshiomhole, Edo lawmakers-elect in Benin

Thugs beat up Oshiomhole, Edo lawmakers-elect in Benin

The crisis rocking the Edo state House of Assembly degenerated into a violent confrontation recently, Suspected hoodlums pounced on some lawmakers-elect in the state's legislative house. Among those …

NASS: Political parties make fresh demands from Lawan, Gbajabiamila, others

NASS: Political parties make fresh demands from Lawan, Gbajabiamila, others

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has urged the newly elected leaders of the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly to make the people who elected them the centre of their leg…

Coup, as 9 Edo Assembly members meet at night to elect speaker

Coup, as 9 Edo Assembly members meet at night to elect speaker

In what can be described as a coup, nine members-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly met late Monday night and elected Frank Okiye and Yekini Idiaye as Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively du…

9th Assembly: Former Senate Leader warns Lawan, Gbajabiamila

9th Assembly: Former Senate Leader warns Lawan, Gbajabiamila

Former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba SAN, has advised the newly-elected leadership of the 9th National Assembly to note that Nigerians expect a vibrant and stable National Assembly. &…

Breaking: Supreme Court adjourns judgement on Osun election

Breaking: Supreme Court adjourns judgement on Osun election

The Supreme Court has adjourned the judgement on the Osun state governorship election. The apex court in its sitting headed by Ibrahim Muhammad who is the acting chief justice of Nigeria on Monday, J…

God will expose you – Fani-Kayode reveals how Gov. Bagudu stopped confirmation of ‘Christian’ Chief Judge

God will expose you – Fani-Kayode reveals how Gov. Bagudu stopped confirmation of ‘Christian’ Chief Judge

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation has revealed the reason behind non-confirmation of acting Chief Judge, Justice Esther Kataru, as the substantive Chief Judge of Kebbi State by Governor A…

Igbos voted Atiku – Northerners mock Ohanaeze’s demand to Buhari for SGF slot

Igbos voted Atiku – Northerners mock Ohanaeze’s demand to Buhari for SGF slot

The Coalition of North-Central Youth in Politics (CNYP) on Sunday lambasted South east leaders under the aegis of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to give the zone Secretary to t…

How Atiku reacted to Sen. Abaribe’s emergence as Senate Minority Leader

How Atiku reacted to Sen. Abaribe’s emergence as Senate Minority Leader

Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has congratulated Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on his emergence as the Minority Leader of the Senate.  &nb…

BREAKING: Supreme Court sacks APC senator, David Umaru

BREAKING: Supreme Court sacks APC senator, David Umaru

The Supreme Court has declared Mohammed Sani Musa winner of the Niger East senatorial election in the last National Assembly polls. The court, however, set aside the April 8, 2019 judgment of the Cou…

PDP to Kogi election tribunal: Dino Melaye, Dino Daniel Melaye’re same person

PDP to Kogi election tribunal: Dino Melaye, Dino Daniel Melaye’re same person

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has informed Kogi State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal that Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Dino Daniel Melaye are the same person, contrary to the senato…

Okorocha takes oath of office in Senate

Okorocha takes oath of office in Senate

Former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Thursday took his oath of office as Senator in the National Assembly. Okorocha was sworn in at about 10:35 am. Addressing newsmen afterwards, the new…