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NASS, Executive feud slowed down governance process – Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday blamed the standoff between the Executive and the National Assembly for the failure of government to deliver on its mandate as it has slowed down the process of governance in the country.  The President who spoke at the National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress ... Read More »

Breaking: Oyegun, others get one year tenure extension The National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the extension of the tenure of the John Odigie Oyegun led National Working Committee and state executive committees of the party for any other one year with effect from June 2018. Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello who briefed newsmen midway ... Read More »

Ramaphosa to step in as Zuma resigns South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma last night resigned his office with immediate effect. He made the announcement in a televised address to the nation. Earlier, Mr Zuma’s governing African National Congress (ANC) told him to resign or face a vote of no confidence in parliament today. The 75-year-old has been under increasing ... Read More »

South African lawmakers on Thursday elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the country’s new president after scandal-tainted Jacob Zuma resigned under pressure from his own ANC ruling party. Ramaphosa was elected without a vote after being the only candidate nominated in the parliament in Cape Town, chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng told assembled lawmakers. Read More »

  In what order should the 2019 elections be conducted? This was the bone of contention among senators at plenary yesterday during debate on the report of the conference committee which harmonised the grey areas to the amendments to the Electoral Act. The House of Representatives passed the bill without hitch. Some members of both chambers of the National Assembly ... Read More »

  About 10 members of the Senate have staged a walk-out in protest against the adoption of the report by the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on the Amendment to the Electoral Act. The protesters say despite the adoption of the report by the Senate, they would insist on its reversal. They alleged that the amendment was targeted ... Read More »

  All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday enjoined former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida to retire and “allow us to move our country forward”. Obasanjo, in a “special press statement” last month, slammed the Muhammadu Buhari administration and “advised the President not to seek reelection”. Babangida followed it up with a ... Read More »

  Some youths in the Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday protested against the rumoured plan by the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki; his former special adviser on Special Duties and Parliamentary Affairs, Alhaji Moshood Mustapha (popularly known as MM); and other associates of the Senate President to defect from the All Progressives Congress to the ... Read More »

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has named his Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, as his successor in 2019. Nwosu is Okorocha’s son-in-law. The governor, at a meeting with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Owerri Municipal Council Area, said his decision to support Nwosu is derived from the fact that Nwosu has “the qualities of an ideal leader”. ... Read More »

Buhari, security chiefs meet in Aso Rock President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started around 11.a.m. as most heads of the security agencies arrived the seat of power before 11.a.m. The meeting is an enlarged one also involving agencies such as Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Fire ... Read More »