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Sen. Godwin Akpabio, the former minister of Niger Delta affairs, was named as the consensus candidate for Senate presidency in the 10th Assembly by the All Progressives Congress on Monday. As the next Deputy Senate President, the ruling party elected Senator Jibrin Barau, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.   The APC zoned the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the North-West and the Senate presidency to the South-South. Tajudeen Abbas, a lawmaker...

Prince Julius Obelikpeyah, a PDP leader in Delta State’s Warri South Local Government Area, has promised that the state’s incoming governor, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, will end kidnapping and other forms of insecurity. While expressing his joy over the release of kidnapped human rights lawyer Dr. Akpo Mudiaga-Odje from his captors, Obelikpeyah, a Warri-based industrialist, told reporters that his conviction in that regard comes from the fact that “the Governor-elect is a dogged fighter who fought...

APC supporters in the North-Central region have protested what they believe to be their region’s exclusion from leadership of the 10th National Assembly, which will take office on June 5. The decision by the APC national leadership to elect Senators Godswill Akpabio (South-South) and Barau Jibrin (North-West) as Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively was supported by the stakeholders, including lawmakers, who made this statement on Sunday.   However, North-Central stakeholders unanimously criticised the...