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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate as the winner of Sokoto South Senatorial District. Declaring the results of the supplementary elections, the Returning Officer for the Sokoto South Senatorial District, Abubakar Bagudo, said Mr Tambuwal scored 100, […]
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has revealed the reason the next senate president of Nigeria should come from the South East in the tenth National Assembly. In a statement signed by his media aide, Primate Ayodele revealed that if the next senate president doesn’t come from the Igbo division, […]
National and House of Assembly elections petition Tribuna sitting in Asaba, Delta State has started taking motions on 25 petitions received from eight senatorial and 17 House of Representatives litigants and their parties. The Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate of Delta North, Senator Peter Onyeluka Nwaoboshi, is among the […]
The Labour Party presidential candidate, LP, Mr. Peter Obi has said not all members of the Obidient Movement are members of the Labour Party. According to the former Anambra governor, members of the movement are at liberty to make their choice of support in the upcoming governorship and state assembly elections. Speaking on […]
A house of representatives ad hoc committee has rejected the deadline extension for the validity of the old naira notes. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had earlier fixed January 31 as the deadline for depositing the old N200, N500, and N1000 notes. But on Sunday, Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, announced that President Muhammadu […]
The house of representatives has asked the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NABTE), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), and the ministry of education to direct all tertiary institutions to suspend academic activities ahead of the elections. The lower legislative chamber said this will enable students to travel to […]
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill, which proposes six months jail term for parents who abandon their newborns or growing children. The bill tagged, “Act to Re-amend the Child Rights Act, Cap. C50, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004,”’ is sponsored by the member representing Esan North East/Esan […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has asked the House of Representatives to grant the examination body total financial autonomy and remove it from the annual national budgetary allocation. The call was made by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede the registrar, when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on the […]
There was a fire incident at a storeroom in the House of Representatives section of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Thursday. It was gathered that the fire was eventually extinguished but the damage had already been done. Viral pictures from the scene showed burnt documents, furniture, and other items. Confirming the […]
Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to probe all the Joint Venture businesses and Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) from 1990. The lawmakers have decided to set up an ad-hoc committee to undertake the probe and report to the House within eight weeks and report back […]
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