Tajudeen Abbas, the lawmaker representing Zaria federal constituency, Kaduna state, has been elected speaker of the house of representatives. The election held on Tuesday during the inauguration of the house. Abbas scored 353 votes to defeat Sani Jaji, a Zamfara lawmaker who polled 3 votes and Idris Wase, the immediate past former deputy speaker, representing…
A pastor of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Rev. Nichodemus Kim and 20 others have been killed by gunmen in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the pastor was killed in the Gana-Ropp community of Barkin Ladi LGA, while others were…
Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom state, has been elected as the Senate President of the 10th Senate. Akpabio who represents Akwa Ibom North-East senatorial district, is the preferred candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He contested for the Senate Presidency with a former governor of Zamfara state, Abdulazeez Yari, a…
The governor of Plateau state, Caleb Mutfwang, nullified some “indiscriminate and irregular” employment in the State and Local governments made by Simon Lalong, his predecessor. This was announced in a statement on Thursday in Jos by the Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere. The statement said all appointments into the State Civil Service…
The Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria chapters of the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association, (NCDPA), have asked the Kaduna state governor, Uba Sani, to come out clean of the recent statements made by his predecessor, Nasir El-Rufai, concerning the governance of the state. This was contained in an open letter to the governor, jointly signed by…
The convoy of Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, was attacked on Saturday by gunmen, along the Abuja-Lokoja highway. The Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, made the disclosure in a statement in Lokoja. He said the attack took place near a Naval Base, few kilometers away from Lokoja, the state capital. Fanwo alleged that the gunmen…
