Category: Politics

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central senatorial district, has instituted a N100.3billion defamation suit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, FCT, Abuja. This came after the Senate began a probe of the senator for engaging in verbal exchange with the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, over sitting arrangement at plenary last Thursday. Akpoti-Uduaghan, alleged that the Senate president tarnished her image through a defamatory post published on his social media platform, Facebook. According to the claimant, the Senate President had in the post…

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Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, is angry because he was blocked from getting a ministerial appointment in the current administration. El-Rufai has been critical of Tinubu’s government in recent times. During an interview on Arise TV, el-Rufai said it was Tinubu, not the National Assembly, that blocked his nomination as a minister after initially asking him to be part of the government. “The National Assembly had nothing to do with it, the president didn’t…

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The local government council elections conducted across Osun state yesterday witnessed low turnout of voters, as well as absence of security operatives in polling units. Although some wards and polling units witnessed a large turnout of voters, majority of the units where voting took place recorded low turnout compared to the last governorship election in the state. Voting did not take place in some polling units in Osogbo, Olorunda local government areas and in most polling units of Ilesa-West, Ilesa-East, Irewole, where Remi Abass was killed during the council takeover…

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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has called on President Bola Tinubu to warn the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, against causing violence and chaos in the state ahead of the February 22 local council poll. Governor Adeleke accused Oyetola of allegedly planning to enforce what he termed non-existent Court of Appeal judgment, which purportedly reinstated local council chairmen and councillors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2022, who were sacked by a Federal High Court judgment. Adeleke spoke at a media briefing…

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Mudashiru Obasa, impeached speaker of the Lagos State House of assembly, has approached the court to challenge his removal. The lawmaker dragged the Assembly and the new Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, before a State High Court in Ikeja, claiming that the lawmakers were wrong to have removed him when the Assembly was on recess. In a motion dated February 12, 2025, Obasa, through his counsel led by Chief Afolabi Fashanu, SAN, sought an order from the court for an accelerated hearing of the suit. Obasa, who was out of the country,…

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The impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, Mudashiru Obasa, on Saturday, broke silence about his removal. He spoke during a welcome rally at his Joel Ogunnaike GRA residence, Ikeja, describing the allegations against him fictitious and unsubstantiated. Obasa said it was important for the lawmakers to follow the constitutional procedure to remove him as speaker. The former speaker also denied the allegations of corruption brought against him by the lawmakers during his removal, describing the alleged financial misappropriations as impossible. Responding to questions from newsmen, Obasa…

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The Lagos State House of Assembly has impeached Hon. Mudashiru Obasa as speaker, and subsequently elected Mojisola Meranda, representing Apapa constituency 01, as the new speaker. Meranda, who took her oath of office immediately, has become the first female speaker of the Lagos legislature. Obasa became speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly on June 8, 2015. Share on: WhatsApp

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