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Senators-elect from the five South-East states have adopted the current Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu as its sole candidate for the office of the president of the 10th Senate. The senators-elect disclosed this after a closed-door meeting on Sunday afternoon. Details later.

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has dissociated itself from the endorsement of Godswill Akpabio for Senate Presidency by the Coalition of Northern groups. Musa Saidu, a member of the ACF, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Mr Saidu, also the leader of the Arewa Community in Southern Nigeria, said endorsing Mr Akpabio for the Senate Presidency would spell doom for Northern Nigeria. “We hereby dissociate ourselves from the endorsement of Sen. Godswill Akpabio for the Senate Presidency by a coalition of Northern groups. “The Coalition is not speaking for the North, it is just speaking for itself.…

Also named winner BusinessDay Newspaper Excellence in Public Service Award 2022 … The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Muhammad Nami has been named winner of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Merit Award 2023 in its Non-Members Category at the Institute’s 2023 Annual Dinner Awards. Mr. Nami, who received the Award at the Monarch Event Centre, Lagos, yesterday was described by the President of the Association, Mallam Tijani Musa Isa as an unassuming and humble achiever who has led the FIRS to excel in the international tax circle despite global economic challenges by achieving milestones…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday attended the burial of Pa Abraham Joseph Michael Diri, the father of the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri. Also in attendance to bid farewell to the Bayelsa governor's late father were former President Goodluck Jonathan, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi and several prominent Nigerian leaders. Others included former First Lady, Dame Patience; the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu; and state governors, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, (Delta); Senator Ademola Adeleke (Osun); Godwin Obaseki (Edo) and his wife, Betty; Udom…

Zamfara West Senator-elect, Abdul’Aziz Abubakar Yari, has refused the persuasion of President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to step down for Senator Godswill Akpabio in the Senate Presidency race, saying he will go ahead to contest position. Yari, the immediate-past governor of Zamfara State, said the contest for the Senate Presidency will be based on constitutional provisions and not instructions by anyone. He said, “What is going to happen that day, it is going to happen based on the instructions of the constitution and not for anyone.” The former member of House of Representatives described the contest as Senators’ business, backed by the…

The aspiration of Senator Godswill Akpabio to emerge as the president of the 10th Senate has suffered a setback as the major opposition caucus in the Senate has rejected his choice. Akpabio who resigned his position as the Senate Minority leader of the 8th Assembly and defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not in the good books of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the National Assembly both the outgoing 9th Assembly and the incoming 10th Assembly, hence all entreaties from the former Akwa Ibom State Governor have fell on the PDP lawmakers-elect’s deaf ears. He is…

The Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello and Hajiya Ramatu Tijani have been accused of failing to implement the FCT Civil Service Commission five years after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill establishing the commission. The Citizens Awareness Against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative, a civil society organisation, raised the concern on Friday, adding that the failure of the FCT ministers was a plot to sabotage the FCT Civil Service Commission Act. In a letter sent to President Buhari via his Chief of Staff on May 5, 2023, by the group's Executive Director, Olumuyiwa Onlede, the group accused…

The South East Young Professionals (SEYP) have paid a courtesy and congratulatory visit to the Federal House of Representatives member-elect, Chief Ibe Okwara Osonwa. Osonwa, a candidate of the Labour Party (LP), was on February 27, declared as the winner of the Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency seat by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Leader of the group (SEYP), Dr. Uzor Ngoladi, congratulated Osonwa on behalf for his victory at the polls, describing it as an act of God because political power comes from God. Ngoladi advised him as a consummate professional and politician who has functioned in several sectors of…