•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...
•Senator Ningi The All Progressive Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and some other political parties yesterday, called for a thorough probe into the allegation made by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Population, Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central), that N3.7tn was padded in the 2024 budget. While the parties called for a probe ...
Governorship candidate of Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, has identified reason the party failed to win the governorship seat in the state since 1999. He blamed it on the antics of some leaders within the PDP, who he accused of playing double standards, working […]
•Sylva President, Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, has refused to disband the three-man panel of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Adekunle Adeleye, in a ruling yesterday, disclosed that the President of the Court of Appeal, had in a letter, dated March...
An aggrieved governorship aspirant in Edo State, Hon. Anamero Sunday Dekeri, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, praying it to declare him the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the impending election in the state. Dekeri, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Henry Akunebu, SAN, equally wrote the [&h...
•Philip Shaibu The impeachment saga of the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, continues as the state House of Assembly says it will resort to substituted service to serve the impeachment notice. The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, announced this during plenary today, reports Channels TV. According to hi...
•Rivers Councillor, Achor Nna Days after resigning his position and declaring support for Governor Siminalayi Fubara, former leader of the Obio/Akpor legislative council, Hon. Achor Nna has been expelled by his ward chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a letter titled ‘RE: EXPULSION OF HON ACHOR NNA’ dated 9th March 2024 and signe...
•Fubara and Wike Barely four days after Achor Nna, the councillor representing the ward of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, resigned his position to support Governor Siminalayi Fubara, another group of Wike’s supporters have collapsed their structure for the Rivers governor. The latest to join Fubara’s camp is a grou...
•Udofia and Akpabio A socio political group, Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District Frontiers for Unity, has asked Nigeria’s Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio to apologise to a former deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Sir Michael Udofia, over his recent outburst describing it as “offensive, jaundiced and disappointing”. Recall that during ...

