•Tanimu Turaki The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki (SAN), today moved to consolidate his authority within the party as former governors and ministers elected and appointed on the PDP platform rallied behind the new National Working Committee (NWC), in what appears to be an early, coordinated effort to rep...
State chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), former governors, National Assembly members, serving and former National Working Committee members and other notable stakeholders from Southern Nigeria have disowned the meeting scheduled for Lagos today, by some group in the party with the aim of zoning positions. The PDP leaders dismisse...
Abubakar Malami, immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation; John Oyegun, former Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC); Ireti Kingibe, lawmaker representing Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Victor Umeh, senator representing Anambra Central, are among the politicians currently at the Shehu Musa YArÁdua Centre, Abuja, ven...
If the allegations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC were anything to go by, no fewer than 58 former governors have looted, embezzled, laundered or misappropriated the sum of N2.187 trillion in 25 years. This figure excludes seized properties across the globe and others under probe, which run into billions of Naira, reports...
Four of the 13 former governors in the Senate and 21 other senators have not sponsored any bill since June 13, 2023 when the 10th National Assembly was inaugurated, findings have shown. The ex-governors in the Senate are Senate President Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Ad...
•Ibrahim Idris A former governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, has lost his son, Muhammed. Muhammed was said to have died earlier this morning after Eid prayers, reports The PUNCH. He was said to have slumped at his Abuja residence. Muhammed was a member of the House of Representatives between 2007 and 2011. The […]
A rights group today called on President Bola Tinubu to stop the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies. The organisation – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in 2017 filed a suit seeking the repeal of pensions for former governors and their deputies across all states of the federation, reports Channel...
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