By Samuel Luka Political heavyweights and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro (DTB) federal constituency, including the current representative, Hon Jafaru Gambo Leko have described the recent appointment of former speaker House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to serve in this administration […]
By Samuel Luka A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara has warned that mindless killings by criminal groups in Plateau States and other parts of the country may persist if the Federal Government continued to treat perpetrators and their sponsors with kid gloves. Dogara spoke on Saturday in Jos, the Plateau […]
By Samuel Luka The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ensure that the perpetrators of the recent massacre in Plateau state and their sponsors are brought to justice. Rt. Hon. Dogara who made the call when he led some serving and former […]
By Samuel Luka Former Speaker, Nigerian House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara has charged the state assembly members in the country to, irrespective of how they emerged, spare no effort in checking executive excesses. Dogara who is the immediate past member representing Bogoro, Tafawa Balewa and Dass federal constituency in the house of representatives […]
By Samuel Luka Former Speaker of the House of Representatives and member representing Bogoro, Dass and Tafawa Balewa federal constituency, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara has been commended for bringing so many developmental projects and programmes to the three local government areas within his sixteen years of representation. Stakeholders in Dogara’s constituency under the banner of […]
…advances reasons why Atiku should be voted president By Tunde Opalana As mixed reactions greeted President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision on redesigning of Naira notes, former Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara has commended the President for his determination to curb vote buying in the 2023 general election. Not unaffected by the hardship caused […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has faulted the purported meeting of former Speaker Yakubu Dogara with some Northern Christians on the party’s 2023 presidential ticket. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity of the council said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He said the former speaker have apparently […]
By Samuel Luka, Bauchi Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara, the immediate past Speaker of the 8th Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has raised the alarm that some people have perfected plans to kill him and three others. The former Speaker, who is currently representing Bogoro, Dass and Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency, levelled the allegations in a letter […]
The former House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, has spoken out on the speculations that he would run for the presidency in 2023 with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, in 2023. Tinubu is the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Daily Times recalls that in July, Dogara dumped the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met, behind closed doors, with the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This information is posted on twitter account of the Presidency Nigeria; @NGRPresident on Sunday in Abuja. The post read: “President Muhammadu Buhari meeting with Senate President […]
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN has called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara to “immediately drop the draft bill aiming to regulate and monitor the activities of all civil society organizations and labour unions in the country as the bill unequivocally threatens the very existence of a free and independent […]
Afolabi Adesola Rt Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara has declared the full support of the National Assembly towards academic research that will solve pressing economic problems. Dogara who was the Guest lecturer at the 16th matriculation ceremony of the Covenant University, in Ota, Ogun state, also disclosed that the National […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said that weak and underfunded security agencies cannot live up to the task of protecting the country in the face of many security challenges. Hon Dogara therefore called for improved welfare for security agencies. This, he said, at the retreat of security related committees of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, at the Abuja House in London. The two leaders departed Nigeria at the early hours of Thursday to London where they met with the President. However, detail of their meeting was not disclosed as […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has assured Nigerian teachers that the National Assembly will increase their retirement age from 60 to 65 years to retain more experienced teachers in public schools. Dogara disclosed this when he received a delegation from the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) who paid him a […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said on Thursday, that the National Assembly is committed to ensuring an accelerated development of satellite towns in the Federal Capital Territory. The Speaker said this while declaring open a public hearing on a bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the Satellite Towns […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Monday said no amount of blackmail will stop the National Assembly from properly scrutinising the 2017 Appropriation Bill. Dogara made this assertion at the opening of a 3-Day public hearing on the 2017 budget organized by the Senate and House of Representatives joint committees on Appropriation. […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday evening reportedly called the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, from the United Kingdom where he is vacationing. The President was said to have called the Speaker at around 9pm Tuesday evening and the two leaders spoke for five minutes. Although the President and the Speaker discussed many national […]
Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, says House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, deserves to be celebrated for what he calls “his superb and remarkable leadership qualities and democratic passion.”The former vice president, in a statement to mark Dogara’s 50th birthday anniversary, says he has watched the Speaker’s leadership […]
…Tasks Muslims on Prayers for the Nation Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has expressed his heartfelt sympathy to the people and government of Akwa Ibom state over the death of over 50 Christian worshippers who died when the church building they were worshipping in collapsed in Uyo the state capital on Saturday. This is […]