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A contender for the Speakership position of the 10th House of Representatives, Rep, Muktar Betara, on Tuesday, held a closed-door meeting with President-elect Bola Tinubu. Betara, a member representing Biu/Bayo/Shani and Kwaya Kusar Federal Constituency of Borno has been canvassing support for his speakership aspiration with party members, House of Reps members-elect, former lawmakers and other stakeholders. This is contained ...

As the race for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly gets closer, a group by the name Igbo Mandate Movement Group has called in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to zone the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives under the 10th Assembly to the SouthEast zone and has also tipped Honourable Benjamin Kalu ( Bende ...

The House of Representatives has told President Muhammadu Buhari that the cash swap policy, apart from the fact that it has subjected Nigerians to serious hardship may affect the smooth conduct of the general elections. The lower legislative house said the government must do more to mitigate the suffering of Nigerians occasioned by the policy, which it said was unpopular. ...

Ex-Governorship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, Otunba Yinka Akerele has won the House of Representatives ticket for Ekiti North Federal Constituency. It was learnt that Akerele emerged unopposed. Joju, son of former Governor Ayo Fayose won the ticket for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1, comprising Ado and Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government. He polled 69 votes as ...

Ugonna Ozurigbo, member representing Nkwerre/ Nwangele/Isu/Njaba Federal Constituency, in the House of Representatives has dumped the ruling the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The lawmaker, who is also a former deputy speaker of the house, made this known on Saturday at his Umuozu ward in the Nwangele Local Government Area of the state. Ozurigbo also ...

Some top stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Ibadan North East/ Ibadan South East Federal Constituency have kicked against an automatic ticket for the incumbent member of the House of Representatives representing the constituency, Hon. Abass Adigun. The party chieftains made this disclosure on Sunday in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. It will be recalled that some leaders ...

The House of Representatives has passed, for second reading, a bill to bar people without university degrees from contesting the presidential position. To contest for federal and state legislature and governorship seats, a candidate will need a minimum of a university degree. The bill, sponsored by Oriyomi Onanuga, seeks to amend sections 66, 106, 131 and 171 of the 1999 ...

The House of Representatives Majority Leader, Hon Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has welcomed his 28th child saying that he wants polling unit established in his family compound. He said this in Abuja at the plenary session on Tuesday while responding to a congratulatory comment from the House Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-Delta). He promised that he will still produce more as he ...

The federal high court sitting in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State has ruled on lingering crisis between the member representing Bali/Gassol at the House of Representatives, Mubarak Gambo and Garba Chede. The duo who are of the All Progressives Congress (APC) extraction, have been at each others neck on who deserves to represent the constituency at the National Assembly. ...

Gov Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Monday, described the death of Adedayo Omolafe, member of the House Representatives, representing Akure South/North Federal Constituency, as shocking and devastating A statement by Richard Olatunde, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, in Akure quoted the governor as saying Omolafe’s death was too difficult to accept. Akeredolu said that no news of ...