Ahmed Lawan
Gov Hope Uzodinma pushed for Lawan emergence as APC consensus presidential candidate, alleges Lukman
8 Nov
From the former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Dr Salihu Lukman came the startling revelation that Governor Hope Uzodinma worked assiduously for the emergence of the former Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of the ruling All progressive congress (APC) in the build up to the 2023 poll. Lukman,…
6 Jun 2023
To every society where the media is free, the marketplace of ideas is allowed to sort the unaccountable from the responsible and reward the latter. Likewise, the Ahmed Lawan ninth Nigeria National Assembly four years reign, which is coming to a close a few days from now, has come under intense public scrutiny.
28 May 2023
Senate President, Dr Ahmed Lawan, has inaugurated the newly constructed Niger State House of Assembly complex in Minna.
24 May 2023
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought the approval Senate to issue a promissory note for the payment of 566,754,584.31 dollars, 98,526,012.00 Pounds and N226,281,801,881.64 judgment debt owed by the Federal Government.
15 May 2023
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as Amended), sections 4 (1) & (2): (1) “The legislative powers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be vested in a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives....
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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to resign his position if former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted. Olukoyede said this in a chat with journalists at the EFCC Headquarters in the Jabi area of Abuja on Tuesday. The EFCC is seeking to arraign Bello…
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Former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has been apprehended by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N8 billion fraud. The PUNCH reports EFCC arrests Sirika over N8bn Nigeria Air fraud that Sirika got to the EFCC's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command in Abuja around 1pm on Tuesday. Sirika is currently being…
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Former governor of Imo State Emeka Ihedioha has left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after 26 years. Ihedioha announced his exit from PDP in a Tuesday letter addressed to the party’s chairman in the Mbutu Ward of Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. According to him, the PDP has taken on a path…
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Kim Kardashian has reportedly lost over 100,000 followers on Instagram. This significant drop comes after the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, which includes a track that fans speculate is a diss aimed at Kardashian. The song in question, titled “thanK you aIMee,” is featured on Swift’s latest album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.”…
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In an interview on Justin LaBoy’s podcast “The Download,” Kanye West found himself at the center of controversy yet again due to his remarks about former First Lady Michelle Obama. During the interview, when asked about who we would want to have a “threesome” with, Kanye West replied, “Michelle Obama. Gotta f*ck the President’s wife!”…
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Britain's High Court agreed Tuesday to hear a legal challenge later this year over continued UK arms exports to Israel during its war against Hamas militants in Gaza. A coalition of legal advocacy groups wants the court to scrutinise the UK government's decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel despite claims that…
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Under a ceaseless storm of strikes in Gaza, a baby girl has survived insurmountable odds as the only member of her family left alive after she was delivered by Caesarian section as her mother lay dying. At just seven months pregnant, her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, reached the emergency unit in critical condition after she was…
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American forces were targeted at a base in western Iraq, a US defense official said Tuesday, the second such attack on the country's troops after a more than two month pause. It followed another attack over the weekend in which rockets were fired from northern Iraq at a base in Syria that houses forces from…
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Nigeria's fastest man this year, Favour Ashe, will not be part of the 4x100m team competing at the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, which serves as a qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympics. This news is significant as the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has not provided a reason for Ashe's omission despite…
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Gov. Nasir Idris of Kebbi has released N309.5 million for the payment of foreign scholarships to 86 indigenes studying in India and Egypt. The Commissioner for Higher Education, Alhaji Isah Abubakar-Tunga, made this known at a news conference in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday. The commissioner said “Gov. Nasir Idris has made payment of foreign scholarship…