Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr Mahmood Yakubu, has stated that the umpire does not buy or sell votes during elections. Yakubu said he was at the ongoing public hearing organised by the National Assembly to hear from…
Two Reps members resign from APC (Nation)
Two members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives on Thursday resigned their membership from the ruling party. The lawmakers announced their resignation in two separate letters to the green chambers which were read on the floor…
Two APC Reps dump party (Guardian)
Two House of Representatives members from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kolawole Babatunde and Mukaila Kazeem, Wednesday dumped the party. Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, read letters from the lawmakers announcing their resignations from the APC at the…
Chinese rice donated to IDPs wasted (ThisDay)
A significant quantity of rice donated by the Chinese government to be distributed to Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in some of the states affected by Boko Haram attacks was wasted. This revelation was made by the Chief Press Secretary to…
APC reacts to Dogara’s unusual defection to PDP (PremiumTimes)
The All Progressives Congress said Thursday that it was not disturbed by the effective defection of Speaker Yakubu Dogara to the Peoples Democratic Party, saying the top lawmaker has no political value to be considered a loss. “We have read…
Finally! Dogara dumps APC, picks PDP nomination form (Punch)
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may have finally defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party. According to Punch, it was gathered Wednesday night that the embattled speaker had picked the PDP nomination and…
Amnesty beneficiaries disown petition against Dokubo (Independent)
Barely a week after a group of purported beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme under the aegis of Niger Delta Ex-agitators Forum (NDEF) petitioned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, over sundry issues, an interesting twist is…
Sultan, a promoter of peace, justice — Dogara (Vanguard)
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar lll, as a man of peace and promoter of justice. In a congratulatory…
Supplementary budget: Saraki, Dogara explain delay (Punch)
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday gave reasons why the National Assembly could not reconvene. They stated that before resumption, the joint Senate and House of Representatives committees on electoral…
No date fixed for NASS reconvening on budget- Saraki, Dogara
The leadership of the National Assembly has said the Assembly cannot reconvene now to consider the 2019 general elections budget proposals before it until the joint committees set up to consider the proposals complete their work. Bukola Saraki, the president…