The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has stated that the House will consider and vote on the Special Seats Bill and other key constitutional amendment proposals when it reconvenes in October. Recall that the National Assembly is currently on its annual recess and is expected to resume plenary in September. In a press statement on Monday signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Kalu disclosed this during a...

The Adamawa state government has received food and non-food items from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for onward distribution to victims of the recent flood disaster in Yola South LGA that claimed 25 lives. The items include 500 bags of 25kg rice, 500 bags of 25kg maize, 500 cartons of spaghetti, 50 cartons of seasoning cubes, 50 cartons of tomato paste, 50 kegs of vegetable oil, and 50 bags of iodized salt. Other items...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld Dr. Musa Mohammed’s position as the duly elected National President of the Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN). The judgement has effectively putting to rest a prolonged leadership dispute within the transport union. In a ruling delivered in Appeal No: CA/ABJ/CB/467/2021, the appellate court dismissed the suit filed by Mr. Eriyo Osakpamwan, ruling that the matter had become purely academic and no longer held any substantive...

The Adamawa State House of Assembly has summoned all the 21 Local Government Council Chairmen in the state to appear on the floor of the assembly and account for their stewardship in the last year. The resolution followed a motion raised under matters of public importance by the member representing Numan Constituency, Pwamwakeno Makwando, and was unanimously approved by the lawmakers during Wednesday’s plenary. According to the resolution, the Council Chairmen will start appearing at the hallowed...

The ad-hoc committee of Yobe State House of Assembly on a bill seeking to repeal and re-enact anti-stigmatization law to provide compulsory premarital tests of hemoglobin genotype and viral hepatitis in the state has presented its report. After extensive deliberations on the recommendations of the committee by members, the House adopted the report. Hon. Kachalla Maina, chairman of the ad-hoc committee, said statistics have shown that Nigeria has forty million people living with sickle cell...