The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, is at the State House to visit President Bola Tinubu after his inauguration as the 10th Senate President. The former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, defeated his closest rival, Senator Aziz Yari, by 63 votes to emerge Senate President. The All Progressives Congress National Working Committee had endorsed Akpabio as a…
Popular Nigerian social critic, Aisha Yesufu has slammed Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu over his Democracy Day speech. According to her, the political elites think that they own the judiciary. Yesufu said it was lack of participation by citizens that gave them the room to indulge in all manner of criminality. Tinubu had on Democracy Day,…
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has sent a warning to the country. According to Primate Ayodele, if Senator Godswill Akpabio emerges, it would be a big slap to the Igbos who have been greatly marginalized in the country. In a statement signed by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, the cleric…
Nigerian lawmaker, Godswill Akpabio has emerged as the Senate President for the 10th National Assembly. He emerged after getting the highest number of votes from his colleagues. In the election conducted this morning inside the senate chamber, Akpabio defeated Yari who was the only candidate to contest against him.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has vowed to fulfill all his campaign promise. He made the pledge on Monday in his maiden Democracy Day address to Nigerians as President. He also vowed that his administration will be faithful to truth, equity, and justice, adding that his government will exercise its authority and mandate to govern with…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of raping Nigeria’s democracy and dishonoring the memory of the late MKO Abiola. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, urged Nigerians to use the June 12 Democracy Day to accentuate the demand for the entrenchment of democratic tenets in the country. The…
President Bola Tinubu has addressed Nigerians on Monday as the country marked June 12 Democracy day. Here is a text of the speech delivered by Tinubu: Fellow Nigerians, 2. It is exactly three decades today that Nigerians went to the polls to exercise their inalienable right to elect a President of their choice to lead…
Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele, the lawmaker representing Ekiti Central has called on President Bola Tinubu to deploy a diplomatic shuttle to ensure the release of the embattled former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, who was sentenced to nine years and eight months in the United Kingdom. He made the call in his remarks at the valedictory…
Senator representing Imo West, Rochas Okorocha, asked Senate President Ahmad Lawan to teach him how to return to the senate without participating in the primary election during the valedictory session of the 9th Senate on Saturday, June 10. While Lawan and Okorocha contested the presidential primary election of the APC in which they were defeated…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to court. According to the group, the lawsuit was filed over the failure of the president to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for…