Why National Assembly Is Pushing For Direct Primary
Oluwafemi Fadairo is Director of Administration in the Office of Senate President Ahmed Lawan. In this interview, he speaks on the amended Electoral Act, youth participation in politics and the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in future polls. Excerpts: Since your appointment as a Director of administration to the Senate President, what development have you brought to your community? They are numerous...
SERAP Sues Buhari Over Failure To Publish Names Of Suspected Looters Of N6trn NDDC Funds
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over his failure to publish the names of those indicted in the alleged misappropriation of over N6 trillion in the running of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) between 2000 and 2019, as documented in the recent Forensic Audit Report on NDDC.” In the suit filed...
Nigerian Politicians Fear Western Sanctions More Than Nigerian Law – Shehu Sani
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Shehu Sani on Sunday said Nigerian politicians fear western sanctions more than the local laws. He stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics on the heels of the visit of the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. “If you look at the mentality,...
Contestants Cleared As Ebem Ohafia Development Union Elects Leaders, Election Date Fixed
At least 22 candidates have been cleared to contest in the Ebem Ohafia Development Union (EODU) election scheduled to take place on December 4, 2021. Those cleared to slug it out for office of the President General include Mr Emeka Mba, Dr Emeka Ibem Uduma Kalu and Prof Emeka Okorie Awa. A release made available to ABN TV on Sunday by...
Sen. Kalu In Closed Door Meeting With Ali Modu-Sheriff (Photos)
Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu on Sunday held a closed door meeting with former governor of Borno state, Ali Modu-Sheriff, ABN TV reports. Modu-Sheriff had paid Sen. Kalu, representing Abia North a visit at his Abuja home where the meeting took place. Unlike his earlier meeting with former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, Sen. Kalu...
APGA, PDP Fight Dirty In Abia As Govt Fingers Otti Over Collapse Of N6.8b Faulks Road Aba
The disagreement between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led Abia State administration and the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has heightened with more verbal war. In a press statement issued by the chairman, the Rev. Augustine Ehiemere yesterday, APGA said the administration ignored the issues it had raised earlier and went personal. At a world press conference addressed by the...
Senator Aluko Slumps, Dies In His Office In Abuja
A former governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Gbenga Aluko, is dead. The Ode-Ekiti-born politician was said to have died on Saturday after he collapsed in his office in Abuja. According to Television Continental, he was rushed to a hospital where he passed on. TVC reported that one of Aluko’s aides who spoke on condition of anonymity told Radio Nigeria...
Presidential Ambition: Tinubu Will Not Speak Till January — Fashola
Will All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, join the 2023 presidential race as being speculated? Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola, says the answer will come in January when Tinubu is expected to confirm his interest. Fashola who succeeded Tinubu as Lagos State governor in 2007 spoke on Channels Television programme ‘Hard Copy’ Friday night. Tinubu himself yesterday met...
Matawalle Calls For Unity As APC Factions Conduct Parallel LG Congress In Zamfara
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Saturday appealed to the factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to sheathe their swords and unite for the progress of the state. Matawalle made the appeal in Maradun, Maradun Local Government Area (LGA) of the state while addressing his faction of the APC delegates at the party’s Local Government (LG)...
In My 22 Years In National Assembly, 9th Senate Better Than Previous Ones — Ahmad Lawan
PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has described the 9th Senate as that which in all ways is different from the previous ones, just as he said that in the last 22 years that he has been in the National Assembly, he has never seen a united Upper chamber like the present one. Lawan who hailed the prevailing atmosphere...
