PDP Governors Insist On Electronic Transmission Of Results
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has maintained the National Assembly must approve electronic transmission of election results. The National Assembly had rejected the proposal during a plenary on Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila said the proposed electronic transmission of election results was not yet feasible in the country. But the PDP Governors insist the National Assembly must enact...
Igbo Youth Leaders Laud Sen. T.A Orji For Water Project In Ukome Umuahia
Igbo youth leaders under the aegis of Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), have commended the Senator representing Abia Central, Senator Theodore A. Orji for initiating and completing a water project in Ukome community in Ibeku Umuahia. The youth leaders while noting that the former Abia governor does not forget his own said his style of politics should be...
Constitution Review: We Don’t Need 469 Lawmakers, Unicameral Legislature In Nigeria Overdue — Iyke Ogbonna
An Owerri based journalist and PR practitioner, Mr. Ikechukwu Ogbonna has said the current bicameral legislature which accommodates the Senate and House of Representatives, comprising about 469 lawmakers is no more attainable in Nigeria, insisting that current economic realities has made it outdated. In his presentation in Owerri at the just concluded constitution review public hearing, South-East zone, Mr. Ogbonna...
Abia Speaker Lists 7 Mini Stadia, School Rehabilitation, Scholarship, Others In Midterm Scorecard
In reeling out his achievements in projects he directly embarked upon and attracted from the Executive in the first half of his four-year tenure as member representing Umuahia Central State Constituency in the Assembly, Speaker Abia state House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji has enumerated some of his achievements within the two years as seven mini stadia...
Igbo Presidency May Be Thwarted As Osita Okechukwu Says Tinubu Good As APC Consensus Candidate
The plan to produce a President of Igbo extraction from the ruling APC my be thwarted as a founding member of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change CPC, one of the “legacy parties” which merged to form the now ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has dismissed speculations of a succession pact between President Muhammadu Buhari and...
Senator Kalu Writes Abia APC, Reveals Candidates To Support Ahead Of Congress
Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has appealed to members of the APC in Abia state to imbibe the spirit of love, tolerance, and sacrifice and work for the party unity ahead of 2023. Kalu issued the statement on Thursday while addressing critical party affairs in his capacity as the Party Leader and Chairman of the APC Caucus,...
Constituents Carpet Sen. Ekwunife Over Absence During Voting For Electoral Act Amendment Bill
The Senator representing Anambra Central, Uche Ekwunife has been queried and criticised by members of her Constituency for absenting herself from plenary on July 15, 2021, when voting on Electoral Act (Amendment ) Bill 2021, took place. Some senators have been accused of absenteeism, while others have been accused of voting against the electronic transmission of results from the polling...
Court Stops Zamfara Deputy Governor’s Impeachment After Refusal To Join APC
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday restrained the Zamfara State House of Assembly, the Chief Judge, and others from effecting the impeachment of the state’s Deputy Governor, Mahdi Gusau. The judge gave the order while ruling in an ex-parte motion brought by the Peoples Democratic Party. Zamfara politics was plunged into the national limelight recently...
After Defection To APC, Zamfara Governor Warns Deputy Not To Dare Him Or…
The gulf appears to be widening between Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, and his deputy, Mahdi Aliyu, after the governor threatened to give the deputy governor “the treatment he deserves” if he dared him. Aliyu, son of former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Muhammed Gusau, has refused to follow Matawalle to the All Progressives Congress (APC), and even addressed a...
2023: Arewa Group Raises Concern Over Alleged Jonathan-Malami Ticket
A group, Arewa 2023 Agenda for Peaceful Transition, has said that Nigerians may not have the last of the crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) as the plot to make former President Jonathan the party’s candidate in 2023 with Malami as running-mate, thickens. National Chairman of the group, Usaini Ibrahim Kano, said in a statement on Sunday, that already,...
