Nigerian Senator dies, National Assembly mourns

Nigerian Senate was thrown into mourning on Thursday following the death of the Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Senator Barinada Mpigi. A National Assembly source disclosed that Mpigi passed away on Thursday at the age of 64 after a brief illness. Before his death, Mpigi represented […]

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Nigerian Senator is dead

Nigerian Senator representing Nasarawa North Senatorial district, Godiya Akwashiki, has reportedly passed away. He died at the age of 52, after a protracted illness. Senator Godiya Akwashiki (SDP/Nasarawa North), was born on Aug.3, 1973, in Angba Iggah, Nassarawa Eggon, Nasarawa. A family source, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on condition of anonymity on Thursday […]

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Nigerian Senator dies, the Senate mourns

Nigerian Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District at the national assembly, Okey Ezea from the Labour Party (LP) has reportedly passed away. Senators Orji Uzor Kalu (APC – Abia North) and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP – Kogi Central) confirmed the report in separate statements in Abuja. Kalu in a condolence message to reporters said: “I […]

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Nigerian Senator, ex-Minister Ezekwesili trade insults on each other at Senate hearing

A heated argument and hauling of insult between Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, representing Ebonyi North, and former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, occurred during a senate committee hearing on Tuesday. The clash occurred at the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions hearing on a fresh petition submitted by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Ezekwesili was a witness […]

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Nigerian Senator from Imo state defects from Labour Party to APC

Nigerian Senator representing Imo East Senatorial District, and a member of the Labour Party (LP), Ezenwo Onyewuchi, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senate President, Godswill Akpabio read his defection letter during plenary on Tuesday, July 23. Imo state governor and chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Hope Uzodinma, was in the […]

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How I make my wife, as Court of Appeal President, to help some of my colleagues ―Nigerian Senator

Adamu Bulkachuwa, the Nigerian Senator representing Bauchi North senatorial district at the National Assembly, has revealed how his wife, Zainab Bulkachuwa helped him and some of his colleagues as President of the Court of Appeal. Adamu, whose wife was the first female head of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, revealed this during the just concluded senate […]

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Nigerian senator accuses APC of planning to use rigging machine in 2019, leaks video

Nigerian Senator, Mr. Ben Murray Bruce has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC of plotting to rig the 2019 general elections using a ‘rigging machine’. In a tweet on Thursday, the Senator who shared a video of the machine allegedly being test-run in Kaduna state said, the machine can allow for multiple voting with […]

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