A new Speaker of the House of Representatives has emerged. He is Yakubu Gogara from Bauchi State. He was elected on Tuesday evening by members of the House of Representatives after he contested the position with Femi Gbajabiamila from Lagos. He was sworn-in immediately by the Clerk of the National Assembly after he was announced…
Senator Ike Ikweremade has been elected Deputy Senate President. His election came on Tuesday at the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly. The lawmaker of the Peoples Democratic Party defeated his opposition, Senator Ali Ndume, in the election held at the Senate. He was also a Deputy Senate President in the last Senate, which had…
Former Governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, has been elected by his colleagues in the Senate as their leader. Saraki, though a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was adopted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as their sole candidate prior to his election on Tuesday. The new Senate President was elected at the…
President Muhammadu Buhari is back in the country from his trip to Germany for the G7 Summit meeting he attended since last week. It was reported that the President arrived Nigeria in the early hours of Tuesday. On his return, he quickly asked to be briefed on the crisis rocking his party, All Progressives Congress,…