The President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has called on elected members of the 8th National Assembly and other elected leaders to be transparent in the discharge of their duties. Buhari made this statement in Abuja at the induction ceremony of the new legislators of the National
A coalition of Nigeria health advocacy groups has urged the Senate to ensure a healthier Nigeria by voting to adopt the National Tobacco Control Bill (NTCB) passed by the House of Representatives last week. The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance—led by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy […]
Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed June 3 to deliver ruling on contempt charge against the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The Minister was accused of disobeying a court order that had on February 25, 2014, directed her to release to a civil society group, Centre […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial standard bearer for Kwara Central, in the March 28 polls, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq,and his party, have filed a petition before the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Ilorin, the state capital, challenging the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC)candidate, Dr. BukolaSaraki. Abdulrasaqand PDP
The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Rivers State, has urged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. AttahiruJega, to caution the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Ghesilla Khan. It expressed dissatisfaction with the state’s INEC’s refusal to allow its agents to have access to election materials, which were to be presented
The senator representing Yobe East Senatorial District in the Red Chamber, Senator Ibrahim Abba Bukar, has said it would be unfair if the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) eventually decided to accept a recommendation zoning the seat of the Senate President to North Central and the speakership position of the House of Representatives […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerians to disregard the wild speculations making the rounds concerning the appointment of ministers and the zoning of offices under the incoming Buhari Administration. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said there is no truth to […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected amendments made by the National Assembly to the 1999 constitution. According to a letter to the Senate President, David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, read on the floor of the Senate, President Jonathan said he was withholding his assent to the bill due to […]
The National Assembly and Presidential elections may have come and gone with all the high and low points that had trailed the exercise, but in Anambra State, the turn of events presented issues that actually proved book makers wrong when the results became public. Aside from Presidential elections which the state voted massively for the […]
