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The Nasarawa government has postponed indefinitely the inauguration of the seventh Assembly of the State House of Assembly, which was scheduled for Tuesday. The acting Clerk of the House, Mr Ibrahim Musa, said in a statement in Lafia that the postponement was based on security advice to Gov. Abdullahi Sule. Musa asked the members-elect and the general public to bear with the decision until a new date was announced.

Ladi Adebutu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to fight over the outcome of the governorship election in Ogun State. The incumbent Governor Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared the winner of the March 18 governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, after receiving 276,298 votes to defeat Adebutu, who received 262,383 votes. Biyi Otegbeye, a candidate for the African Democratic Congress, came in third place with 94,754...

Suleiman Kawu Sumaila, senator-elect for Kano South Senatorial District, has vowed that only elected federal lawmakers will decide who will be the Presiding Officers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives during the 10th National Assembly’s inauguration on June 13. Sumaila, who was elected on the platform of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, made the announcement at a press conference in Abuja on Monday. He argued that the previous zoning arrangement made...

Frank Shaibu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communications, has charged the immediate past Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, with throwing his law certificate in the trash following his defeat at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Keyamo’s law degree, according to Shaibu, is useless. Keyamo had written a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB),...

Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo state, said President Bola Tinubu has an immediate solution to mitigate the impact of the subsidy removal. This was stated by Oshiomole during an interview. The former governor expressed confidence that the Federal Government and organized labor will quickly resolve issues arising from the removal of fuel subsidies. Tinubu, according to Oshiomhole, recognizes the impact of the fuel subsidy withdrawal on Nigerians and is determined to take immediate...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a senior member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has chastised the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, for its plan to shut down the country’s economy by going on strike on Wednesday. Following the astronomical increase in petroleum pump prices caused by the removal of fuel subsidies, NCL declared a nationwide strike beginning this Wednesday. President Bola Tinubu’s Federal Government’s efforts to quell the rage have yet to bear fruit. The union refused...