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National assembly leadership

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Senate’ll ensure Buhari succeeds – Omo-Agege

July 13, 2019 Taiye Odewale 0

Deputy President of the Senate Ovie Omo-Agege has said the Senate would do all in its powers to ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari delivered on his next level agenda to Nigerians in the next four […]

Politics

9th NASS leadership and triumph of party supremacy

June 20, 2019 Editorial IV 0

From onset, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), made it clear it would not allow a repeat of the 2015 scenario, where it shared principal officers’ positions with the opposition. Obike Ukoh writes. APC and […]

News

I supported Agege because he is my in-law-Sen Ekpenyong

June 19, 2019 Esseh Ikora 0

The Senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District, Chris Ekpenyong has revealed that he played a key role in the emergence of Senator Ovie Omo Agege as Deputy President of the Senate because he is his […]

News

Gombe gov hails emergence of Lawan, Gbajabiamila as senate president, Speaker

June 12, 2019 Auwal Ahmad 0

Gombe state Governor Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has described the emergence of Ahmad Lawn and Femi Gbajabiamila as leaders of the Senate and Hosue of Representatives as “a collective preference for credible legislature that will […]

Politics

PDP congratulates NASS new leadership

June 12, 2019 Abdulrahman Zakariyau 0

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulates the 9th National Assembly for its successful inauguration and charged the lawmakers to guard legislative independence. PDP in a statement issued by its […]

Politics

NASS leadership: How APC got it right

June 12, 2019 Patrick Andrew 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) finally got its acts together and ensured the emergence of the leadership of the national Assembly of its choice unlike the blunder it committed four years ago.Patrick Andrew writes. Slumbering […]

News

Why 9th NASS assembly leaders won’t be rubber stamps- Adeyeye

June 10, 2019 Paul Okah 0

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly on Tuesday, a legal practitioner and energy expert, Barrister David Adetunji Adeyeye, has allayed fears that members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) contesting for leadership […]

Opinion

APC, NASS leadership and micro-zoning

June 9, 2019 Michael Jegede 0

“The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.” – Edward Gibbon (British MP, between 1774 and 1784) Following the overwhelming victory of the ruling All […]

News

Gbajabiamila: Court adjourns, set to accommodate defendant response June 14

June 8, 2019 Kehinde Osasona 0

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Friday, reiterated its readiness to accommodate defendant response in the suit filed against Femi Gbajabiamila, a member of the House of Representatives.  The court has therefore adjourned the […]

News

Speakership: Constituents throw weights behind Gbajabiamila

June 8, 2019 Taiye Odewale 0

Supports from the home front came the way of Hon Femi Gbajabiamila Friday in Abuja as constituents from his Surulere 1 Federal Constituency declared  their supports for his aspiration as Speaker of the 9th House […]

News

Coalition backs Gbajabiamila for speakership

June 7, 2019 Binta Shama 0

Thirty-five (35) political parties under the umbrella of Coalition of Integrity Political Parties (CIPP) have declared their support for Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the ninth Assembly. The […]

News

Speakership: Umahi urges Gbajabiamila to be fair to all

May 22, 2019 EgwuAgha Amarachukwu 0

The chairman South-east Governors forum and Governor of Ebonyi state, Engr David Umahi, has called on the House of Representative speakership candidate and the current House leader, Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila, to give south-east members in […]

News

Speakership: Fresh twist as Arewa women, youth drum support for Nkeiruka

May 18, 2019 Sadiq Abubakar 0

A group, North-east Women and Youth Initiative for Good Governance have added their voice to the call for Hon. Nyejeocha Nkeiruka’s candidacy for the Speakerership of House of Representatives. Addressing journalists Saturday at a joint […]

Interview

9th NASS leadership: No serious-minded PDP member’ll run – Igariwey

May 18, 2019 Editorial III 0

Barrister Iduma Igariwey Enwo is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member representing Afikpo North/South constituency in the House of Representatives. In this interview with PAUL OKAH, he says no serious-minded PDP member will contemplate contesting […]

Opinion

That APC’s wager on Lawan and Gbaja

May 18, 2019 Ojeifo 0

I do not look into crystal balls. That is not my preoccupation.  I certainly lack the endowment of predicting the future. That enterprise is better left to the confident fortune-tellers. Agreed it is their forte, […]

News

Implications of 178 endorsing Gbajabiamil for speakership

May 8, 2019 JOSHUA EGBODO 0

Following last week’s endorsement of Femi Gbajabiamila for the position of speaker by not less than 178 new members-elect for the coming House, JOSHUA EGBODO  and Patrick Andrew writes on likely implication. The number required […]

Features

What the Gbajabiamila, Wase pact portends

May 7, 2019 Patrick Andrew 0

All Progressives Congress (APC) national caucus’ determination to forestall a repeat of the 2015 scenario when some elements defied the party’s arranged leadership structure in the 8th NASS may have yielded fruits with the emergence […]

News

9th NASS: No official position, we’re still consulting – PDP

May 6, 2019 Abdulrahman Zakariyau 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its leadership and elected federal legislators have not taken any official position on who to support for the position of presiding officers of both the Senate and the House […]

News

Speakership: Issues with open ballot system

May 3, 2019 Tope Musowo 0

Amidst calls for the adoption of open ballot system in the election of presiding officers of the 9th National Assembly, two Lawmakers say the lower chamber’s laid down rules could not be disregarded. Tope Musowo […]

Features

Uncertainty over who emerges speaker

April 29, 2019 JOSHUA EGBODO 0

Though the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared support for candidature of the majority leader, Femi Gbajabiamila as speaker, agitations have remained unabated with more members of the party declaring intentions for the speakership. […]

Features

9th senate presidency and Goje’s surreptitious moves

April 29, 2019 Taiye Odewale 0

Three names have remained consistent in the race for the senate presidency some 41 days to the take off of the new senate but Senator Danjuma Goje (APC Gombe central) seems to be the dark […]

Politics

Loyal party members should be considered for NASS leadership, says Ogunade

April 14, 2019 Editorial IV 0

A political analyst Mr Wale Ogunade Sunday said that loyal party members should be considered for appointments into the National Assembly leadership and other committees. Ogunade, who is also the president, voters’ awareness Initiative, gave […]

Politics

Don’t impose NASS leadership on APC, Commander tells Tinubu

April 7, 2019 Bashir Mohammed 0

Chieftain of All Progressives Congress in Kano state Alhaji Abdulmajid Danbilki Commander has urged Northern politicians to halt Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s insistence on imposing the leadership of the 9th National Assembly. The staunch political associate […]

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Columns

Education: PMB should lead by example

December 15, 2019 0

Late Alhaji Wada Nas was a prolific writer, an astute politician and a former Minister of state for Education and later special duties in the regime of Late General Sani Abatcha. When the military relinquished […]

Columns

The danger of swimming in another man’s river

December 14, 2019 0

Last weekend, I was at my mechanic’s workshop in Kubwa, a sprawling satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, when an apprentice was narrating the jungle justice meted out to an adulterer in his […]

Opinion
Opinion

The agenda for new FIRS Chairman

December 15, 2019 0

When the news broke that President Muhammadu Buhari has reconstituted the Board of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with Mr. Mohammed Nami as chairman-designate via an executive communication to the Senate on December 9, 2019, […]

Opinion

Ending farmers/herders crisis: Niger state model as ‘master stroke’

December 15, 2019 0

In the last decade, there has been increased incidences of farmer/headers clashes that have affected socioeconomic lives if Nigerians. This development has been attributed to so many factors, principal among them is the Climate Change. […]

Letters
Letters

Nigeria sliding into debt trap?

December 14, 2019 0

The rise of our national debt has continued to become a matter of great concern .Since the inception of this administration, it has been reaching to both domestic and foreign creditors for loans. Of course, […]

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Letters

Youth’s response to govt’s challenge

December 14, 2019 0

In response to government’s challenge to the youth to be more productive, a 29-year-old Keffi youth in Nasarawa state has bagged two degrees in the medical profession. Dr. Salisu A. Maikasuwa recently obtained B.Sc. degrees […]

Editorial
Editorial

Breaking the 20-year budget jinx

December 12, 2019 0

The next level administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has evidently hit the ground running as it makes a historic assent to the 2020 budget by January 1, 2020, thus returning the nation’s budget cycle to […]

Editorial

Desirability of electoral offences commission

December 10, 2019 0

The reassurances by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to the effect that the commission will continue to work with the National Assembly and all stakeholders for the […]

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