Benjamin Kalu
2 Aug 2024
Call him the astute administrator, veteran legislator, ebullient personality or a logical Colossus, you will still be right in describing who the man, the Rt. Hon. Toby Okechukwu, a former Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Speaker of the Green Chamber is. To prepare himself adequately…
13 Jun 2024
The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere, the Chairman Committee on Petroleum Resources (Midstream), Rep. Henry Okojie, and their deputies have extended their best wishes to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, on the completion of their…
6 Jun 2024
Members of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage, comprising government representatives, organised labour, and the organised private sector, resumed talks, yesterday, on a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
4 Jun 2024
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has inaugurated a seven-man Peace Fund Committee to help raise financial assistance for victims of insecurity in the South East region.
3 Jun 2024
The House of Representatives is currently considering a bill to improve women's representation in the parliament to enhance gender equality and women's inclusiveness in the governance of the nation.
30 May 2024
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has advocated for legislation to back philanthropy and impact investing
17 May 2024
Member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North South Federal Constituency, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere has said that the all-inclusive administrative style of the Speaker, Rt Hon Tajudeen Abbas, and Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has kept the House of Representatives stable. Ugochinyere, the Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), in…
5 May 2024
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has expressed gratitude to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for supporting the passage of the South East Development Commission Bill through the third reading in the Senate.
22 Apr 2024
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has raised alarm over the growing insecurity in the country, disclosing that Nigerians have paid an estimated five billion naira as ransom fees to kidnappers since 2016. He said the amount exposes the alarming growth of this criminal enterprise in the country. Kalu stated this at…
21 Apr 2024
The former Governor of Anambra State, during the Third Republic, Chief Chukwuemeka Pius Ezeife (Okwadike Ndigbo), who passed on at the Federal Medical Centre Abuja on Thursday
21 Apr 2024
A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North, South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere has commended the immediate-past House Speaker and Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila for sponsoring and ensuring the passage of the Students' Loans (Access To Higher Education) Bill, 2023. Ugochinyere also commended…
4 Apr 2024
A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North, South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere has urged leaders from South East region to emulate the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Benjamin Kalu in seeking political solution for the release of detained leader of the Indigenous People of…