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House Moves To Restore Democratic Order In Rivers

House of Representatives
Steps to address the ongoing political unrest in Rivers State were announced by the House of Representatives yesterday. When parliamentarians reassembled after the Easter and Sallah holidays, Speaker of the House Hon. Tajudeen Abbas revealed this and emphasized the significance of reestablishing democratic stability in the state. This was as a former President, Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has encouraged the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Mr Siminalayi Fubara to support the existing reconciliation process in the State. George Turnah, the acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, has been urged by Prof. BenjaminRead More

Odigie-Oyegun Can’t Dictate To Us How To Run APC – National Vice Chair, Eta

Chief Hilliard Eta
In this interview, the National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the All Progressives Congress, Hilliard Eta, speaks on the decision of the party’s National Working Committee to settle for the directRead More

Edo Primaries: INEC Foresees Crisis As APC, PDP Begin Gov Aspirants’ Screening

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
The Independent National Electoral Commission has expressed fears over the possibility of crisis affecting party primaries ahead of the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states scheduled for September 19Read More

Igbo Leaders’ Wickedness Won’t Stop Biafra – Nnamdi Kanu

IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu
The leadership of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday said “the wickedness and stinginess of Igbo leaders” would not deter it and its believers from actualising the SovereignRead More

Edo Polls: APC Govs Arrive National Secretariat

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki vs Adams Oshiomhole
Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have arrived the party’s National Secretariat to hold talks with the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee to broker truce betweenRead More

Edo 2020: No Man Can Stop Me From Returning As Gov – Obaseki

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki
Godwin Obaseki has said that no man can stop him from returning as the Governor of Edo State. He said this amid internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress inRead More

Edo 2020: APC Faction Picks Ize-Iyamu As Consensus Aspirant

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu
Former Secretary to Edo State Government and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2016 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has emerged the consensus aspirant of the AllRead More

INEC Okays E-voting From 2021, Says Voters Without Face Masks Won’t Be Allowed To Vote In Edo, Ondo Elections

Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) will be used for future elections in the country beginning from 2021. However, it noted that the forthcomingRead More

Reps Strip PSC Powers To Recruit Constables, Protect CPs From Govs

Nigeria House of Representatives
The House of Representatives has stripped the Police Service Commission recruitment and training powers and domiciled them with the Nigeria Police Force in a bill amending the Nigeria Police Act,Read More

NASS Commences Work On 2020 Revised Budget

Nigerian Senate
The Presidency has said the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic caused the delay in presenting the 2020 revised budget to the National Assembly. This came as the Chairman, SenateRead More

Gov Election: We’ve Not Decided Mode Of Ondo Primaries – APC

All Progressives Congress (APC)
The All Progressives Congress has yet to take a final decision on the mode of primaries to adopt in picking its Ondo State governorship candidate. One of our correspondents gatheredRead More