Barrister Chinedu Akubueze has been appointed clerk of the Senate. A statement from the National Assembly Service Commission signed by its Executive Chairman Engr Ahmed Kadi Amshi confirmed the appointment and redeployment. Until the appointment and redeployment, Barrister Chinedu Akubueze was the clerk of the House of Representatives. Barrister Akubueze is also the President of…
The Senate has rescinded its decision on adoption of direct primaries in the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, passed on Nov. 18, 2021 by the National Assembly. This followed the adoption of a motion for the re-committal of the bill to the Committee of the Whole by Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi at Wednesday’s plenary. The…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has denied comparing seccessionist agitators with Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists. In a statement late Wednesday, the Speaker said there was no time in his welcome address to his colleagues Wednesday morning that he mentioned any group. The statement read: It has come to the attention of the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives, has called for the immediate resignation of the party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus. The caucus, in a statement jointly signed Kingsley Chinda and Chukwuka Onyema, leader and deputy leader respectively, said this part of resolution reached at an online meeting of the caucus, on…
It was commendation galore by Owan Constituents as they trooped out in their numbers to listen to their representative at the House of Representatives, Hon Prof Julius Ihonvbere who in a spate of two days held two town hall meetings in the two LGAs that makes up Owan Federal Constituency, Owan East and Owan West…
Nigerian Senate, Tuesday, rejected the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Onochie’s disqualification was contained in a report presented to the Red Chamber during plenary. Chairman of the Committee, Kabiru Gaya, who presented the report on behalf of the committee, said Onochie did not satisfy the…
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Maj-Gen Farouq Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff (COAS), The confirmation followed the adoption of the report of the Senate joint Committee on Defence and Army at plenary on Tuesday. Presenting the report, Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto) said the committee found the nominee suitable…
The Southern Senators’ Forum has commended steps taken by state governors from the region to stem the rise in insecurity. The forum disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Secretary General and Publicity Secretary, Senators Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti), Matthew Uroghide (PDP-Edo) and Chukwuka Utazi (PDP-Enugu). The forum lauded the governors for outrightly…
Minority Caucus of the National Assembly has threatened to use its legislative powers to move against the President Muhammadu Buhari should he continue to breach the constitution. The caucus on Tuesday listed various constitutional breaches which it said it would rely upon to invoke its constitutional powers, should the breaches persist. Leader of the caucus…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reconciliation committee met with the former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, at his hilltop residence in Minna, Niger State capital, on Friday. At the end of the meeting with Babangida, the Committee led by former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, proceeded to the Minna residence of former…
