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Four members of the Labour Party Caucus in the House of Representatives have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers are Chinedu Okere (Owerri municipal/owerri north/Owerri west constituency), Mathew Donatus (Kaura federal constituency of Kaduna), Akiba Bassey (Calabar municipal/Odukpani constituency), and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo federal constituency of Edo). Speaker Abbas Tajudeen announced the defections on Thursday after ...

•Rivers people will resist it to the last point – Commissioner  Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has directed members of the House of Assembly, led by Martin Amaewhule to commence impeachment process against Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Tony Okocha, gave the directive during a media conference in Port Harcourt, yesterday, following the ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka There are very strong indications that the Anambra State House of Assembly Complex Awka may reopen for legislative business on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Although investigations at the assembly complex on April 16 revealed that the House would have resumed plenary on April 11, but the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) industrial action stalled the ...

…as members bemoan five-month unpaid allowances  By Raymond Ozoji, Awka Members of the 7th legislature of Anambra state are currently groaning over Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s apparent reluctance to implement the financial autonomy law which was signed by his predecessor Chief Willie Obiano. It is however believed that the implementation of financial autonomy will help foster separation of powers as well ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka The 7th legislature of Anambra state has summoned the state Commissioner for Education Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh to appear before the plenary session to explain what actually gave her the guts and audacity to rain insults and abuses on Ndi-Anambra in a democracy in spite of being a public servant. The invitation of the Education Commissioner to ...

…describes six Anambra legislators who defected to APC As Prisoners Of War Raymond Ozoji, Awka The special adviser to Governor Willie Obiano on political matters, Barr. Ifeatu Obiokoye, has described six state assembly lawmakers who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as prisoners of war. The governor’s aide who stated this during an exclusive interview with our correspondent ...

—Says NASS commission can’t determine lawmakers’ remuneration The Federal High Court in Lagos in a landmark judgment today ordered the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to fix the salaries and allowances of the 469 members of the National Assembly – 109 in the Senate and 360 in the House of Representatives – to reflect the economic realities in ...

…says desperate politicians donating vehicles, money to party delegates  Raymond Ozoji, Awka A chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra state, Mr. Jude Emecheta, has emphasized the need for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest politicians donating vehicles and money to party delegates for vote buying. Emecheta stated this in an exclusive interview with ...

Congratulate Oba Elegushi at 45 for role in peaceful coexistence The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday described the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a man for whom Nigeria as a country currently yearns. Members of the House said this at plenary as they took time to eulogise the former governor ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Lawmakers of the 7th legislature of Anambra state have unanimously spoken in one voice concerning the level of dilapidations on roads across the state. This time, they said it was most appropriate that as representatives of the 30 constituencies in the state, they should be in the forefront of campaign against the deplorable state of roads in ...