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Okorie To FG: Name INEC Headquarters After Nwosu

…pays tribute to Afenifere leader, Adebanjo Founder and pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has called on the Federal Government to immortalise late chairman of the then National Electoral Commission (NEC), Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, by naming the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral omission (INEC) after him. Nwosu,...
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Police Restore Meranda’s Security Detail

…Obasa applies for protection, says CP The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Moshood Jimoh, has said the command has restored the security detail of the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda. CP Jimoh stated this on Thursday while addressing a press briefing at the command’s headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos. According to the...
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PDP Rejects Report Of Wike Backed S’South Zonal Congress

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the report of the South-South zonal congress held in Calabar, Cross River State, last Saturday. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nysom Wike, who attended the zonal congress where Chief Dan Orbih was returned as National Vice Chairman of the zone, made a statement justifying the...
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Lagos Speakership Crisis, Erosion Of Democracy

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said the unfolding events in the Lagos State House of Assembly in the past few weeks have exposed the dangerous erosion of democratic principles in the country. Atiku, in a statement issued by his media aide, Paul Ibe, on Thursday, said the removal of former Speaker Mudashiru Obasa...
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PDP Elders Decry Worsening Insecurity

…Urges Alia, Tinubu To Purge Herders The elders’ forum of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), under the umbrella of G-14 and G-9 across the 23 Local Government Areas of Benue State, have decried the unprecedented level of insecurity that has devastated communities in the state. This was as they called on President Bola...
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Ex- NASS Member Insists On Zoning

The former member of the House of Representatives, Chief Chinedu Obidigwe, has warned that any attempt to compromise the already existing zoning arrangements ahead of the November 2025 gubernatorial election in Anambra State would not mean well for the polity. Obidigwe also contended that there is no vacancy in Anambra government house, noting that the...
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Meranda Reacts To Withdrawal Of Security Details

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, has reacted to the withdrawal of her security details by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). New Telegraph had earlier reported that the security details and Police officers of the substantive Speaker, Meranda were withdrawn on Thursday, February 27 amid the ongoing leadership tussle at...
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Drama As Obasa Storms Lagos House Of Assembly

The Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, on Thursday, February 27 stormed the assembly complex. New Telegraph gathered that Obasa was in the company of some security officials as he entered the Speaker’s Office around 12 noon amid the ongoing crisis at the state Assembly. READ ALSO The...
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Obasa. Armed Men Break Into Speaker’s Office

The impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has forcefully broken into the office of the Speaker. Obasa, supported by some armed men, broke into the office at about 12 noon, on Thursday, February 27 following the withdrawal of the security aides of the substantive Speaker, Rt Hon Mojisola...
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I Don’t Know If El-Rufai Is NEC Member – APC Spokesman, Morka

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka, on Wednesday said he is uncertain whether former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is a member of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Morka made this remark in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today while addressing El-Rufai’s absence from the party’s NEC...
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