Following the minority status of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State Assembly occasioned by the defection of PDP members, including the speaker, to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Mrs. Maria Oligbi-Edeko, has resigned her position. Mrs Oligbi-Edeko representing Esan North-East II announced her resignation during the plenary in Benin City, the state capital, on Monday. In her resignation letter to the House, Oligbi-Edeko said her resignation was...

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has sought for independent probe into the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) system, even as he directed the Federal Government department to initiate an urgent and independent audit of its digital systems following the large-scale technical disruptions that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Recall that the nationwide examination, a gateway to higher education for millions of Nigerian youths, was thrown...