Posted by admin
Legislature, Senate, Top Stories
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Those who were confused by the presentation of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s flag to Speaker of the House of Represen-tatives, Rt. Hon. Dimeji Bankole, in Ibadan, Oyo State, last Tuesday need not worry anymore: the party has said he is a PDP candidate in the National Assembly elections in April. The declaration by the ruling […]
Posted by admin
Legislature, Senate, Top Stories
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The senate yesterday rejected the nomination of Pius Olayiwola Aderemi, as the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). Aderemi, a retired Supreme Court justice, was dropped by the Senators on account of age. He is 72 years of age. President Goodluck Jonathan had last year December nominated Aderemi to head the that […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

THE Senate ad hoc committee on investigation into the transport sector yesterday issued a warrant of arrest on the minister, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, asking the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to arrest and present him before the panel. But in a dramatic turn, the minister made a sudden appearance before the committee. The Senate has […]
Posted by admin
House, Latest Politics, Legislature
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
The faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State led by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Chief Jubril Martins-Kuye, may present the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, as its candidate for the Abeokuta Federal Constituency, THE PUNCH learnt on Tuesday. The faction’s Acting Secretary, Alhaji Semiu Sodipo, told one […]
Posted by admin
House, Legislature, Top Stories
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Shock and disbelief trailed the release of candidates’ list for Ogun State yesterday, as the names of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, Governor Gbenga Daniel and Mrs. Lola Abiola-Edewor were not on the Peoples Democratic Party’s list released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abeokutal. The former managing director […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Saturday, February 5th, 2011

One of the pressure groups sympathetic to the second term bid of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, The Pathfinders, has attributed the failure of the Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party’s ticket to return to the Senate to his alleged non-performance. He was also accused of romancing with some chieftains […]
Posted by admin
House, Legislature, Ogun, State News
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
A fresh attempt at ensuring that the Independent National Electoral Commission accepts the list of the Ogun State candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party submitted by the state governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has suffered another setback. The PDP and INEC had against an earlier position accepted the lists of candidates submitted for the forthcoming general […]
Posted by admin
Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

There are indications that the country may be headed for another shoddy budget implementation as members of the National Assembly have ignored the 2011 budget lying before them. Investigations showed on Wednesday that Senators and members of the House of Representatives were more concerned about getting re-elected at the April polls than working on the […]
Posted by admin
Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Legislature
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
The rather flighty way the National Assembly hides behind Constitutional and Electoral Act amendments to shield the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Federal Government from the charge of short-sightedness has become one of the notable features of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Since the collapse of the grand effort to amend the constitution in the […]
Posted by admin
Kogi, Legislature, State News
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
AT least five members of the National Assembly, including two senators and three members of the House of Representatives, have defected from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party in Kogi State. A former governor of the state from 1999 to 2003, Alhaji Audu Abubakar, gave the hint on Monday […]