•Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua Members of the Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF) yesterday named Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua as the replacement for Sen. Abdul Ningi as the Chairman of the group. Yar’Adua, a younger brother to the late President Umar Yar’Adua, hails from Katsina State. He is also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, reports Ni...
•Senator Ali Ndume Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to withdraw orderlies attached to his colleagues in the National Assembly and those attached to politicians in the country. “I support that they should take away all their police (officer),” the Senator from Borno South Senatorial District said on ...
•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...
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