•Speaker of South Africa’s Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Investigators raided the house of South Africa’s National Assembly speaker today as part of a corruption probe, prosecutors and parliament said, prompting opposition calls for her to resign. Coming just over two months before national elections, the raid adds to the woes of the rul...
•Police The Southwest Conference of Speakers has called for the immediate creation of state police and devolution of powers. The conference said doing so would address the hydra-headed insecurity and other socioeconomic challenges facing the country, reports The Nation. In a communiqué issued at the of their meeting in Ikogosi-Ekiti, the speak...
Concerned about the present state of the nation, the conference of former Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly of Nigeria, has called on the federal government to immediately embark on initiatives capable of ameliorating the hardship faced by Nigerians. The call was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day meeting […...
•Ogun State House of Assembly Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have intervened in the crisis rocking the State House of Assembly following the impeachment of the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo. On Tuesday, 18 of the 26 members of the Ogun assembly ousted Oluomo as speaker. He was impeached over allegations [...