Category: Politics

– PDP praises acting President over action Social Democratic Party, SDP, National Chairman and a former Secretary to the Federal Government, Chief Olu Falae, has Falae who called for punishment for any erring public officers in the country, and particularly anyone found culpable in Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly by security operatives. He reacted […]

– says it wasn’t authorised by Presidency – vows to discipline culprits – summons DSS, Police bosses – APC dissociates self from siege Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has condemned Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly complex as a gross violation of the constitutional order, rule of law and all accepted notions of law […]

The emergency meeting of the leadership of the National Assembly scheduled for Tuesday afternoon has been called off as a result of the security situation at the legislative building. Giving reasons, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yussuff Lasun, told reporters that with the tense situation at the National Assembly, the meeting […]

A group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives under the auspices of Parliamentary Democrats Group (PDG) on Monday vowed that both chambers of the National Assembly would not reopen if the intention was to change leadership. The group, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by its spokesman, Hon. Timothy Golu, stated […]

The Federal Government on Monday assured that the gale of defection in the nation’s party politics will not shield any corrupt politician from investigation and prosecution. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave the assurance when he paid an official visit to the Abuja office of The Authority newspaper. Fielding questions from members […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly address all cases of alleged corruption being levelled against his aministration and why such cases are still striving despite its anti-corruption war. The party lamented that “the leader, who hitherto paraded as pro-poor and saintly has now been exposed to be the […]

Members of the National Assembly who recently dumped the All Progressives Congress to join the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have said they are not afraid of being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. They argued that they had nothing to fear because they were confident that the anti-graft agency had nothing to implicate […]

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the July 14 governorship election and Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Prof Kolapo Olusola, has urged the state’s Election Petition Tribunal to declare him winner of the election. He stated this after filing about 700 pages petition at the tribunal, saying the election was openly manipulated by […]

The Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are allegedly desperately seeking a “fraudulent” interim court order to declare the seat of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, vacant following his defection to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The PDP levelled this allegation on Friday in in Abuja, as it alerted that […]