Federal lawmaker from Lagos, Femi Gbajabiamila, has been named the House Leader. This may have brought to an end the crisis that has rocked the House of Representatives since June 2015, when it was inaugurated, over leadership tussle. Speaker of the House, Yakub Dogara, announced Gbajabiamila as the House Leader on Tuesday during the plenary…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has repealed its earlier decision to redistribute candidates that sat for this year’s exams to institutions they (candidates) did not initially choose while filling their forms. JAMB has come under criticisms lately since it announced the plan. Some days ago, some candidates who chose the University of Lagos,…
The Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha has denied erecting or authorising the erection of the controversial billboard in the state showing his ‘iconic’ handshake with President Barak Obama during his visit to the US last week. Okorocha has been under attack over the billboard since the picture hit the internet, but his Chief Press Secretary,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter to the Senate requesting the approval of the Service Chiefs he recently appointed. The Senate resumed plenary on Tuesday morning after going on recess some weeks ago. During their break, the President fired the Service Chiefs he inherited from the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan and appointed…
Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, who is now a Senator in the National Assembly, is the new Senate Minority Leader. Akpabio emerged on Tuesday during the plenary. The Senate reconvened on Tuesday after a long break. Also, members of the upper chamber of the National Assembly elected other minority leaders. Senator Emmanuel…