•Speaker Dewan Plateau Speaker Gabriel Dewan has sworn-in nine out of the 16 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers. It was gathered the swearing in took place in the early hours of today in Jos, reports The Nation. It was gathered the member from Jos East was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. Dewan was said […]
•Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula South Africa’s parliament speaker resigned yesterday, weeks after her home was raided in a graft probe likely to hurt the ruling African National Congress heading into May elections. In a resignation letter seen by AFP, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said she decided to step down with immediate effect to uphold the in...
•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...
•Abbas House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas yesterday swore in 12 of the 15 members-elect who were presented their certificates of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday. The 12 new members won last Saturday’s by-elections and court-ordered rerun polls to fill vacant seats in the Green Chamber, r...
•Former Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Oludaisi Elemide, today, stepped down a motion moved by a member representing Abeokuta North State Constituency, Babatunde Tella, and co-sponsored by five other lawmakers suspending the former Speaker Olakunle Oluomo for fourte...
Today, the Ogun State House of Assembly swore in Hon. Oludaisi Elemide as the new Speaker of the House. Elemide, representing Odeda State Constituency, is a third-time lawmaker in the Assembly. His emergence followed the impeachment of Hon. Olakunle Oluomo on January 23 as the Speaker of the Assembly, reports Nigerian Tribune. Recall that 18 [...
•Oluomo The impeached Speaker of the Ogun House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, alongside two other principal career officers of the assembly, Dayo Samuel and Adeyemo Adedeji, were today arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, the capital of the state. Oluomo and the duo were dragged before the court by the [&hellip...
•Olakunle Oluomo The crisis rocking Ogun Assembly took a new dimension on last night with impeached Speaker, Hon. Kunle Oluomo, declaring that he remains the Speaker . Oluomo representing Ifo State Constituency 1 was sacked from office on Tuesday by 18 lawmakers over alleged gross misconduct with Hon. Oludaisi Elemide elected to replace him, r...
•Speaker Gabriel Dewan The Speaker, Plateau State House of Assembly, Gabriel Dewan, says that he is in possession of a court injunction to recognise only eight members of the assembly. Dewan stated that the 16 sacked lawmakers, and the other 16 with certificates of return, were all laying claim to the seats, reports NAN. The […]
•Olakunle Oluomo Kunle Oluomo has been impeached as the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly. Eighteen of the 26 members of State Assembly voted for Oluomo’s impeachment at plenary session today. Oluomo was impeached for alleged embezzlement of funds, highhandedness and related offences, reports Channels TV. The Assembly immediately ele...