Barnabas Gemade
5 Jul 2021
The Progressives Mandate Movement (PMM) has rejected moves by some elements within the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the party’s national chairmanship to the North Central.
11 Aug 2020
Whether it was made in jest or earnest, the call by governing All Progressives Congress (APC) on some of its former leaders to return to the party comes as part of the immediate challenges the party is confronting.
6 Jan 2019
The first and probably most important thing that one should point out about this book is that it is the product of a profound and consistent sense of disenchantment and anger that the author makes no effort to conceal. He is disenchanted with the lack of probity and patriotic honesty that he says most of…
29 Dec 2018
Although defection from one political party to another is not new in Nigerian politics, but the number of politicians who dumped their parties ahead of next year’s general elections was unprecedented.
17 Sep 2018
One of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Barnabas Gemade has announced his defection from the party to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) despite having picked PDP's Benue North East senatorial nomination form. Gemade who was formerly a National Chairman of the PDP said he exited the party because Benue State governor…
13 Aug 2018
Senator Barnabas Gemade has declared that he will not step down for Dr. Gabriel Suswan to contest the slot of Benue North East Senatorial district.
13 Aug 2018
I have observed that election transforms politicians into representatives in any democracy. Every elected representative is the product of aggregate votes by the electorate including the president...
8 Mar 2018
The senator representing Benue North East in the National Assembly, Barnabas Gemade, has called for the overhaul of the nation’s security architecture, citing a fundamental dislocation in the entire system.
10 Nov 2017
In the United States of America, there are three ways a president can leave office mid-term: death, resignation or impeachment. In Nigeria, there have been several impeachments especially legislative heads, and a few conspired impeachments of governors....
2 Oct 2017
With the greater percentage of the population still lacking access to decent homes, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development...
14 Nov 2016
Twenty-four years after commercialization of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), the Senate Committee on Housing has waded into the process and pledged to work with relevant agencies to fast-track....
5 Apr 2015
GOING by the results of the March 28, 2015 National Assembly elections, it is clear that majority of National Assembly members will come from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and they will be in control of lawmaking for the country. Benue State has for almost the past 16 years of democracy placed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the helms of affairs
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