The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has revealed why the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly refused to yield to pressure to declare Senator Orji Uzor Kalu’s seat and position vacant during the period of his incarceration. He stated this on Tuesday when he received a delegation of the leaders of thought from Abia State …
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The embattled Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking it to stop the state House of Assembly from impeaching him. Listed as defendants in the suit are; the House of Assembly, the Inspector General of Police, the state Commissioner of Police, the …
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Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council for the Edo State governorship election, Nyesom Wike, has said threats by his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, to “isolate” him until the elections were over, had exposed the plot by the ruling party to take undue advantage of security agents. Ganduje had on …
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The Acting Chairman of the Ondo State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Dele Thomas, has urged the Ondo State Commissioner of Police to immediately seal off the party secretariat in the state over the ongoing crisis within the party. Thomas said the closure of the party secretariat would curb the escalation …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has lifted the ban on campaigns by political parties ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. INEC Head of Voter Education in Edo, Timidi Wariowei, said campaigns have officially commenced in the state. Wariowei said, “Campaigns have officially started in the state. Campaigns start 90 …
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, on Monday, disallowed an official of Ecobank Plc to testify in the trial of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and six others. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting the defendants on amended 10 counts of fraud, …
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The President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, said he joined members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in grief over the death of a former member of the party’s National Working Committee, Inuwa Abdulkadir. Abdulkadir served as the party’s Vice Chairman, North West. He was said to have died in the early hours of Monday. In …
The Peoples Democratic Party has asked the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu to step aside and allow an unhindered probe into allegations of malfeasance levelled against him. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, in Abuja, on Monday, the PDP said, Magu’s invitation by a …
As debates rage following the arrest of Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Raymond Igbalode, popularly known as Hushpuppi, top political parties have continued to trade blames over the nation’s negative corruption profile. Only recently, the All Progressives Congress said there were links between major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party and the US indicted fraudster, and added …
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An aide to former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEF), Reno Omokri has said that under the present administration, corruption has become official. Mr. Omokri stated this while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. The media aide to GEJ while admitting that there were some mistakes made in the previous government, stated that …
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