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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara,  has yet joined the race for the Speakership of the Ninth National  Assembly, his media aide,  Turaki Hassan, has said.Hassan in a statement in Abuja on Sunday described those campaigning for Dogara on social media as mischief makers. The statement read in part,  “We wish to distance the Speaker from the …

The desire of the All Progressives Congress to go into the elections of a new leadership of the National Assembly as a united house has put on hold threats to the position of Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the ruling party, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that party leaders across geo-political zones were reaching out to one another on …

Saturday Vanguard has reliably gathered that some All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators, and members of the House Representatives have concluded plans to work against the party’s candidates for the positions of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. The move which had been at its teething stage before now was said to have been emboldened by the …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would host leaders of the Lake Basin Commission to an informal security summit during his forthcoming second term inaugural ceremonies slated for June 12 in Abuja. President Buhari made this known during a bilateral meeting with the Chadian president, Idris Deby, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Organisation …

Oredo Local Government Area (LGA) chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has set up a 7-man committee to investigate allegations of financial impropriety and mismanagement of the party’s  funds levelled against some members of the party in the council. The committee was set up after an enlarged meeting in Benin City of the chapter’s leadership, comprising ward chairmen and …

United States Embassy, on Friday, honored a 83-year-old Muslim cleric, Abdullahi Abubakar, who saved many Christians during an attack in Yelwan Gindi Akwati, Swei and Nghar villages in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State The U.S. government awarded Mr Abubakar the Ambassador’s Peacemaker Award for Heroism in an interfaith dialogue at the U.S. Embassy Consular, Abuja, Nigeria. Mr …

A new National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has emerged, Edozie Njoku. Briefing newsmen in Owerri, after their convention, alongside his other executives and delegates, Edozie, said that their members from the 35 states including Abuja, came for the convention. He pointed out that there was an experte order obtained by the members of the Board of …

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday barred the Group Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, Wale Tinubu, and his deputy, Omamofe Boyo, from holding director positions of public companies for a minimum five year period. The Nigerian capital market regulator also directed other members of the Board of the company to resign their positions forthwith. The SEC also …

The FCT High Court, on Friday dismissed a suit, accusing the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammed, of age falsification for lack of ‘’Locus Standi’’. The judge, Danlami Senchi, held that the suit filed by Tochi Michael, a 46-year-old man sometimes in April, ought to have been filed before the court by way of writ of summons and …

The All Progressives Congress State Chairmen from the South-South have asked the Deputy National Chairman, Lawal Shuaibu, to tender an unreserved apology to the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, within seven days. Shuaibu, had in a May 28 letter, called for Oshiomhole’s resignation over alleged high-handedness. He lamented that the APC under Oshiomhole had become badly fractured in virtually every constituency …