Category: Lagos State

The reinstated Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, held a meeting on Tuesday with his fellow lawmakers. The meeting held at the Assembly complex in Alausa, Ikeja was aimed at reconciling with his aggrieved colleagues following the leadership crisis which came to an end on Monday when the lawmakers reelected Obasa […]

The 49-day reign of Mojisola Meranda as Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly ended on Monday, when the lawmakers re-elected Mudashiru Obasa to lead them. The move is not unconnected to the resolutions of the mediating panel led by Chief Bisi Akande and Chief Olusegun Osoba, former governors of Osun and Ogun states, […]

A former Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party during the 2023 general election, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has dumped the party. He announced his resignation at a press briefing held at Liberty Place, Ikeja, in Lagos on Monday. According to him, his reasons for leaving the party are not unconnected […]

Mudashiru Obasa has been returned as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Obasa was reinstated following the resignation of Mojisola Meranda, who stepped down from the role with immediate effect. He was returned as the speaker during Monday’s plenary session. In January, the lawmakers impeached Obasa over multiple allegations, including poor leadership […]

Mojisola Meranda has been reelected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Meranda, who just resigned on Monday afternoon as Speaker of the House, accepted the role of the deputy speaker pledging to serve the state in good faith. “This is a notice of resignation as Speaker of the Lagos State […]

History was made and then swiftly rewritten as Mojisola Lasbat Meranda, the first female Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, resigned on Monday after a brief 49-day tenure. Her departure, along with that of the Deputy Speaker, Chief Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip, plunged the Assembly into a moment of emotional upheaval, leaving […]

A tense legal battle unfolded at the Lagos State High Court today as 35 members of the Lagos State House of Assembly arrived to defend their decision to remove Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker. The lawmakers are facing a lawsuit filed by Obasa, who claims his January 13, 2025, removal was unlawful. Photos captured the arrival […]

Justice Yetunde Pinheiro of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed March 7 for the hearing of all preliminary applications filed in the suit instituted by the embattled former Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa challenging his alleged unlawful removal as Lagos State House of Assembly speaker. The judge fixed the date after counsel representing […]

The embattled member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has said he would always do the right thing even without the approval of President Bola Tinubu. Obasa said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday. The lawmaker representing Agege Constituency 1 had been removed from office as […]

Speaker in high spirits Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, remains the substantive speaker, contrary to fresh reports of her resignation. An aide to Meranda, who described the reported resignation as fake news and requested anonymity, confirmed this to Vanguard on Wednesday while addressing the circulating rumors on social media. The clarification follows […]