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PRESS RELEASE RE: PDP Rep Member Present Bill Seeking To Jail Protesters. The office of the member representing the good people of Ahiazu/Ezinihitte Mbaise Federal Constituency in the green Chamber of the national Assembly, Hon. Emeka Martins Chinedu, has been inundated with calls and messages over a misconception gone viral. …

There was heated debate and sharp division in the Senate yesterday, following consideration of a bill seeking to protect and preserve donkeys from extinction in Nigeria. The disagreement among Senators was provoked by a debate on the legality or otherwise of the power of the Senate to legislate on animals, …

  Four other members of the House of Representatives from Zamfara State have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC). The lawmakers are Ahmed Bakura of Bakura/Maradun federal constituency, Ahmed Shehu Bungudu/Maru federal constituency and Suleiman Gummi Gummi/Bukkuyum federal constituency and Bello Shinkafi, Shinkafi/Zurmi …

…says only Nwafor led Exco can conduct legal congresses in Imo Former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha has said that he gave the name: All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling party. The Senator and Presidential hopeful, who spoke at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja …

Kaduna Baptist school invaders demand rice, others to feed victims, hold 121 students Bandits, who invaded Maraban Rido in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday and abducted some students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, have reached out to the management of the institution to demand …

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the National Assembly have thrown their weights behind the recent resolutions of the Southern governors. The governors had met in Lagos on Monday and demanded the inclusion of the electronic transfer of results in the 2010 Electoral Act amendment Bill 2021 and the …

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has said it is examining the recent outburst made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed against the Kwara state Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, with a view to punishing the minister. Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the party in Kwara state, Abdullahi Samari …

  Nigeria’s attorney-general of the Federation, Abubakar Malami has branded Alberta Justice Minister, Kelechi Madu an ‘Empty Vessel’ over his recent comments on Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest. Newsextra24 earlier reported that Madu attacked Malami calling him a ‘disgrace to the rule of law’, a statement that didn’t go down well with …

Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, news decorated Chief of Army Staff COAS), Wednesday said that bandits and other criminals waging wars against the government and undermining national security “have been sent to God to go and answer for their crimes.” The Chief of Army Staff said this shortly after he was …

  My lawyers have informed me of the judgment by the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the case of Folakemi Adeosun v The Attorney General of the Federation (FHC/ABJ/CS/303/2021) in which the court, presided over by Honourable Justice Taiwo Taiwo, ruled that the constitution does not require me to present …