Rivers State Government has urged the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) to reconsider its stance and prioritise the welfare of the people to ensure peace in the state. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Joe Johnson, made the appeal at a news conference in Port Harcourt on...
Impeachment
Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) has issued a gross misconduct notice against Gov. Siminalayi Fubara and his Deputy Ngozi Odu. The notice follows widespread speculation regarding moves to initiate impeachment proceedings against the governor. On Monday, the lawmakers officially served the notice, dated March 14, stating that their...
The Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM) has said that if Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers is impeached, another Ijaw candidate must succeed him. he must be succeeded by another Ijaw candidate. The group’s Director General, Johnson Georgewill, told journalists in Port Harcourt on Monday that the arrangement would ensure that...
Rivers-based activist Jake Epelle on Thursday said any impeachment move by former governor Nyesom Wike and his loyalists in the state’s House of Assembly against his estranged successor Siminalayi Fubara won’t succeed. Epelle said Wike cannot advocate peace and yet spur his loyalists in the Martins Amaewhule-led legislative body...
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers, Chief Tony Okocha, has called on Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers to resign within 48 hours, or face impeached. Okocha made the remark in a press briefing in Port Harcourt on Monday. He said that the Supreme Court judgement...
The impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, says he was never removed as speaker and that he is back to the assembly to take charge. Obasa spoke with reporters shortly after storming the assembly complex with some security personnel on Thursday. The News...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has called for a thorough investigation into the Department of State Services (DSS) for its undue interference at the complex on Monday. Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Security, and Strategy, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, made this known in a statement statement in...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has confirmed that the Department of State Security (DSS) has released the detained lawmakers after hours of interrogation over the speakership crisis. The Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Information, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday witnessed a significant shift in leadership, as the new Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, officially moved into the speaker’s office amidst members’ support. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Meranda was accompanied by members of the assembly to the complex in a...
A lawmaker, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, has disputed the former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa’s, claim to remain as speaker. The lawmaker said Obasa was removed by the majority of members. Ogundipe, the former Chairman of the Committee on Information, stated this in Lagos on...
The immediate past Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, has said his impeachment did not follow due process and that the election of Mrs Mojisola Meranda as new speaker did not follow the law. Addressing a large gathering of APC members from the Mandate...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Hon. Mohammed Kwajaffa, representing Hawul Local Government Area at the Borno State House of Assembly, has dismissed the purported impeachment of Speaker Hon. Mohammed Bukar by nine aggrieved councillors as null and void. The impeachment was allegedly due to gross misconduct accusations against Hon....
Lagos State lawmakers on Tuesday met with members of the state Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) to brief the council on the development at the assembly on Monday, including impeachment of Speaker Mudashiru Obasa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Obasa (APC-Agege 1 ) and a sixth-term lawmaker was...
Mr Gboyega Akosile, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, has said the governor has no hand in the impeachment of the immediate past Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa. Akosile debunked rumour making the round that Sanwo-Olu was...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has pledged harmonious relationship with the executive arm of government. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr Stephen Ogundipe (APC- Oshodi/Isolo 1) made the pledge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. NAN reports that Ogundipe...
In a historic move, Mojisola Lasbat Meranda has emerged as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, becoming the first female to take charge of the legislative body in the southwest state. Meranda’s election followed the impeachment of Mudashiru Obasa during the House’s plenary session on Monday....
The crisis in the Edo State local government councils took a different dimension on Thursday. Several persons were wounded as gunmen allegedly invaded the Uhunmwode Local Government Council headquarters in Egor. The chairman of the council, Kenneth Adodo, alleged that the people involved in the shooting were policemen from...
A South Korean court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol, the Yonhap news agency reported. The Corruption Investigation Office is investigating Yoon for unexpectedly imposing martial law on Dec. 3. The office applied for an arrest warrant on Monday after Yoon ignored three...
The Federal Government has filed a six-count charge against nine defendants over allegations bordering on disseminating a false information on the recent rumour about the impeachment of Senate President Godwil Akpabio. The charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/555/2024, was filed at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Oct. 21 by the...
Kenya’s President William Ruto has nominated interior minister Kithure Kindiki as his new deputy president, a day after the Senate voted to impeach Ruto’s previous deputy Rigathi Gachagua. “I have received a message from … the president, regarding the nomination of Prof. Kithure Kindiki to fill the vacancy which...