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Speaker for Edo State Assembly Francis Okiye has been impeached over alleged high-handedness. House Majority Leader, Henry Okhurobo, moved the motion for his impeachment. Nine of the 10 Assembly members at the Plenary signed his impeachment letter. Marcus Onobun, representing Esan West Constituency was immediately sworn in as the new Speaker. More to come…..

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured a court order to temporary seize some funds linked to Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, speaker of the Lagos house of assembly. The EFCC in a motion dated August 12, 2020 and marked FHC/L/CS/1069/2020, asked the court to issue an order directing that the funds in three bank accounts be forfeited in the ...

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness has informed a Federal High Court in Lagos that it commenced investigation of a former Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, following a petition accusing him of N500million monthly fraud. Adebayo Adeniyi, an EFCC investigator, told Justice Mohammed Liman that the probe unearthed some payments received by Ikuforiji, which were ...

The Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Yekini Idiaye has been impeached. He was impeached on Wednesday during a plenary session of the Assembly in Benin. More to come….

Niger Deputy Speaker Bako Kasim Alfa has resigned. Alfa announced his resignation during the oplenary session. His resignation was contained in a letter submitted to the Speaker and read on the floor. But he was silent on why he resigned. The nomination for his replacement was moved by member representing Paikoro constituency, Suleiman Gambo Aninigi and seconded by member representing ...

The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi has called for immediate removal of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, David Oloyelogu. It will be recalled that the impeachment process met a brickwall as the state Chief Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu had rrejected a letter from the Assembly to set up a seven-man committee to investigate the allegations ...

New reaching us now says the Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Iroju Ogundeji has been suspended. Ogundeji was suspended alongside another member of the House, Hon. Adewale Williams. The two lawmakers were suspended by the leadership of the House on Wednesday during plenary for unruly behaviour. The affected lawmakers were among the nine lawmakers who did ...

Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye has said that he is not thinking of dumping the All Progressives Congress like Gov. Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, did. Recall that Obaseki and his deputy, Shaibu had on Tuesday, while in Abuja, tendered their resignation letters to the party after the APC screaming committee ...

About 64 bank accounts are reportedly inked to the Bank Verification Number of Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa. It was alleged that the accounts which are registered with various names, are being used to siphon public funds in Lagos, SaharaReporters reports. With the BVN: 2296663231, the Obasa reportedly operates accounts with multiple names in Polaris ...

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, says the current events that cropped up in the Lagos Assembly doesn’t have any effect on political empire of the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Obasa revealed this in a statement he signed on Wednesday following reported friction between him and Bayo Oshinowo, a ...