Some angry youths in Rivers State stormed the state House of Assembly on Thursday to protest an alleged plan by Nyesom Wike, the state governor, to sack the 22 local government chairmen elected into office by the immediate past administration of Rotimi Amaechi. Thousands of youths carried placards and blocked the entrance into the Assembly…
Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has said National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, is losing his relevance in the Nigerian politics. George made this comment and others while reacting to the emergence of Bukola Saraki as Senate President and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker of the House of…
The meeting took place at the residence of the former Senate President, David Mark, at the Apo legislators’ quarters, and had in attendance 47 senators-elect, with Mark and Ike Ekweremadu presiding. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Working Committee, NWC, members led by the acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, and other NWC members were…
Senator Ahmad Lawan and some other lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have headed to court to challenge the emergence of Bukola Saraki as the Senate President. Saraki was elected into the office on Tuesday at the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly by the Clerk, Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa. However, Lawan and some of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed support for the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Buhari, in a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, described the elections of the key principal officers of…
A new Speaker of the House of Representatives has emerged. He is Yakubu Gogara from Bauchi State. He was elected on Tuesday evening by members of the House of Representatives after he contested the position with Femi Gbajabiamila from Lagos. He was sworn-in immediately by the Clerk of the National Assembly after he was announced…
Senator Ike Ikweremade has been elected Deputy Senate President. His election came on Tuesday at the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly. The lawmaker of the Peoples Democratic Party defeated his opposition, Senator Ali Ndume, in the election held at the Senate. He was also a Deputy Senate President in the last Senate, which had…
Former Governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, has been elected by his colleagues in the Senate as their leader. Saraki, though a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was adopted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as their sole candidate prior to his election on Tuesday. The new Senate President was elected at the…
President Muhammadu Buhari is back in the country from his trip to Germany for the G7 Summit meeting he attended since last week. It was reported that the President arrived Nigeria in the early hours of Tuesday. On his return, he quickly asked to be briefed on the crisis rocking his party, All Progressives Congress,…
The Nigeria military has heeded to the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari to transfer its command centre to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in a bid to wage a total war on terrorism in the North-East of Nigeria. Buhari had disclosed during his inauguration that one of his strategies of defeating the ‘stubborn’ Boko Haram…