Tag: Yakubu Dogara
How the Lawan senate failed its first major test
Reuben Abati
Senator Ahmed Lawan is the Chairman and President of
Nigeria’s 9th National Assembly. His emergence as Senate President was prefaced
by a lot of politicking...
Disquiet as Gbajabiamila leaves out Abdulmumin Jibrin in House committee chairmanship...
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi
Gbajabiamila, yesterday announced 109 lawmakers as chairmen of the House
standing committees.
The list includes the speaker’s loyalists...
Buhari signs 2019 budget, faults lawmakers for inserting new projects
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2019 appropriation
bill of N8.92 trillion into law.
Signing the budget in his Aso Villa office on Monday, the
president faulted...
Saraki, Dogara, Akpabio, 51 others retain seats as court dismisses suit...
Ime Akpan
A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out the suit filed by Legal Defence and
Assistant Project (LEDAP) challenging the defection of the...
Buhari regrets frosty relationship with 8th national assembly
President Muhammadu Buhari has reflected on the relationship
between the executive and the outgoing 8th national assembly and
concluded that it was not the best.
The president...
Tinubu, spokesperson of depravity –Dogara
Ime Akpan
The brickbat between the national leader of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on one the hand and the senate
president, Dr. Bukola...
National assembly leadership: Expect surprises within APC -Dogara
Ahead of the June 12 inauguration of the ninth national
assembly, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara has
warned against the imposition...
Saraki, Umeh, Alasoadura lose senate seats, Melaye, Oduah, Dogara re-elected
The Senate President and People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
senatorial candidate for Kwara Central, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has lost his
third-term bid to return to the senate...
Military co-opted into conduct of elections -Dogara
Ime Akpan
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara has said that President Muhammadu Buhari, in view of his utterances, had enlisted...
House overrules Council of State, approves N30, 000 as new minimum...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday overrode the National
Council of State and approved N30, 000 as the new national minimum wage for
Nigerian workers.
It...