NASS Leadership Controversy: Aamu asks aggrieved lawmakers to sheathe their sword

…As Yari, Kalu, Sani lead protest to party Following controversy, protests that trailed the endorsement of principal offices in the 10th National Assembly, by the National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress (APC), the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has appealed for the understanding of displeased lawmakers, promising to right every wrong. The chairman  also took full responsibility for the error when he received some aggrieved senators in his office, told the...

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter’s CEO, keeps successor’s identity secret

Micro-blogging platform Twitter will get a new Chief Executive Officer, CEO, in six weeks, Elon Musk says. In a tweet on Thursday, Musk announced that he has hired a new CEO to replace him as the ‘Chief Twit’, a pseudonym he took following his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform on October 27, 2022, to reflect his new status. Musk says he will become Twitter’s executive chairman and chief technology officer when the...

South Africa beats Nigeria to the top spot of countries with the highest unemployment rate

South Africa is currently sitting at the number one position in the list of countries with the highest unemployment rate globally. According to World of Statistics, 32.7 per cent of the South African population is unemployed – the highest in the world. World of Statistics is a global network of nearly 2,360 organisations worldwide committed to providing up-to-date information on statistically related events and activities worldwide. The report has Spain and Turkey in second and...

Anambra State House  Reshuffles Leadership, Commends Governor and Security Agencies

Barely one month before the inauguration of the next Assembly, the Anambra State House of Assembly has appointed some members to vacant leadership positions in the House. In a statement before naming the new appointees into vacant principal office positions, the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Uche Okafor, said the new leadership has been approved by the APGA caucus in the Assembly. From the list, Hon. Pete Ibida, member representing Njikoka II constituency was...

Security Operatives kill 5 IPOB suspects in Anambra, recover rocket launchers, charms, others

The Anambra State Joint Security Operatives on Wednesday killed five armed gang suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Briefing newsmen yesterday at the Anambra state police headquarters, Awka, the Police Commissioner in the State, Echeng Echeng, said that the joint security forces recovered two rocket launchers, four Ak47 raffle, four magazines, one pump action, live ammunition, amongst others. Echeng told reporters that the briefing was to provide another update on...

May 29: There won’t be transition when there’s no successor – Adebanjo

… Says its wrong to  swear-in before court judgment The leader of Pan Yoruba socio-political, organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has said that it is abnormal to consider inauguration and transition of power on May 29th when there is no successor. The Afenifere leader told our reporter on Wednesday that as long as the court has not decided the winner of the February 25 presidential election, there is no successor yet to President Muhammadu Buhari. He...

Speakership of HoR: Plateau elders maintain Plateau aspirants  deserve slot

….Faults NWC for jettisoning equity, fairness Following the zoning and endorsement of some candidates for the leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Plateau Elders Forum has insisted that the House of Representatives should be led by an indigene of the state. Rising from a meeting in the house of the chairman of the Forum, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, in Jos,  the executive council members of...

Court adjourns hearing of Peter Obi’s petition against Tinubu, INEC to May 17

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, on Wednesday, adjourned the petition challenging the election of Bola Tinubu by Peter Obi and the Labour Party to Wednesday, May 17. The Tribunal commenced sitting on Monday, May 8 to hear the petitions by five aggrieved political parties and their candidates challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. The parties are the Action Peoples Party, APP; Action Alliance, AA; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Labour Party, LP and...

President Muhammadu Buhari, President-elect, Bola Tinubu out of the country

President Muhammadu Buhari who has been out of the country since May 3 will spend an extra week in London, Femi Adesina has said. The West African Pilot News reports that President Buhari departed for London on Wednesday, May 3 to join other world leaders to attend the coronation of King Charles lll on May 6, 2023. In a statement on Tuesday, Adesina, the special adviser to the President on media and publicity, explained that...

INEC fails to upload complete results on IReV 53 days after the 2023 general election

Exactly 54 days after the 2023 general election, the complete results of the presidential polls are yet to be uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing, IReV, portal. The general election was held on Saturday, February 25, 2023, for presidential and National Assembly elections and elections for 28 of the 36 governorships and State Houses of Assembly followed on Saturday, March 18. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, introduced a technology, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System,...

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