•Senator Adetokunbo Abiru Barely 24 hours after a dramatic plenary culminating into the suspension of the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdul Ningi, Southern Senators have revived their forum, electing Senator Adetokunbo Abiru representing Lagos East, as Chairman. The inauguration of Abiru who replaces the Senate Leader, Sen...
•Akpabio Dr. Sam Amadi, a former governorship aspirant in Imo State and director of Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, has condemned the suspension clamped on Senator Abdul Ningi who represents Bauchi Central at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly. Recall that Ningi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) federal lawmaker, last week...
•Speaker Olamide Oladiji Ondo Speaker Olamide Oladiji has run into troubled waters for allegedly lying that 18 lawmakers have endorsed Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November governorship election. Oladiji, who was present at the declaration of Governor Aiyedatiwa intention to seek the party’s ti...
•Shaibu Edo State Deputy governor, Hon Philip Shaibu, yesterday, denied being served with impeachment notice from the state House of Assembly as claimed by the Speaker, Hon. Blessing Agbebaku during plenary, on Monday. The inability of the House, according to the Speaker, to physically serve Shaibu led to a substituted service through advertor...
•Gov Obaseki and deputy, Shaibu The Edo State deputy governor, Rt. Hon Philip Shaibu impeachment saga assumed a religious inclination yesterday as no fewer than seven catholic organizations wrote to the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Blessing Agbebaku to prevail on his colleagues to drop the impeachment move against Shaibu...
•Late Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa Ondo State governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has officially declared his intention to contest the Ondo State Governorship Election slated for November 16, 2024. The governor, who addressed supporters at the Gani Fawehinmi Arcade, Akure, yesterday, expressed interest to contest the poll on the platform of the All Progre...
•Tinubu and Atiku Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu of pure mischief over a media report that he plans to quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a yet-to-formed mega party. The presidential candidate of the main opposition party in the 2023 election took to his verified X handle, @atiku, today, [&hel...
The Senate has been thrown into a rowdy session following revelation of uneven distribution of the federal government’s palliatives to senators for onward disbursement to their constituents. The Red Chamber was debating the allegation by Senator Abdul Ningi, the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, during an interview with BBC Hausa, repor...
•Akpabio Amid the controversy trailing the interview by Senator Abdul Ningi, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, today said the integrity of the Senate has been totally damaged. Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central, claimed in a recent interview with BBC Hausa that the National Assembly passed a budget of N25 trillion for 2024, which is in...
•Senators Bamidele and Ningi Senator Opeyemi Bamidele from Ekiti Central Senatorial District has described as a “civilian coup”, claims made by Senator Abdul Ningi that the 2024 Budget passed by the Senate was padded. A furious Bamidele, who is also the Majority Leader of the upper chamber, alleged that Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central Sen...

