Professor Richard Akindele, the Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife don enmeshed in a sex-for-marks scandal has been suspended by authorities of the university. The Vice Chancellor of OAU, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, confirmed the suspension in a statement on Thursday. He said he had received and considered the interim report of the committee set up to
The names of five ‘thugs’ who stormed the upper chamber of Nigeria’s national assembly, the Senate, on Wednesday and took away the mace in a commando-style action have been released. The release of the names of the thugs allegedly sponsored by a suspended member of the red chamber, Sen. Ovie Omo Agege followed police announcement
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of attempting to destroy the future of Nigerian youth. In a statement on Thursday, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP national publicity secretary, said young people in the nation cannot in any way be described as lazy. He said this in response to a comment made by Buhari
The House of Representatives on Wednesday suspended action on the Bill for an Act to amend the Electoral Act 2010 to make provision for sequence of elections. This followed a request by the sponsor of the Bill, Edward Pwajok, to withdraw it. The bill, which was listed for second reading in the Order Paper of
A former governor of old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has described Wednesday’s snatching of the mace in the Senate by suspected hoodlums as disgraceful. Mr Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone that the incident was dangerous, not only for democracy, but for security. Mr Abdullahi described the incident as a treasonable
Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the theft of the Senate mace by thugs on Wednesday morning. “The APC hereby condemns this action and views it as an attack on our democracy and a desecration of the hallowed institution of the National Assembly,” the party said in a statement. “We therefore call
The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, on Wednesday said he gave his waist belt to serve as a mace for senators to continue plenary after thugs invaded the chamber and made away with the mace. Senate plenary on Wednesday was disrupted after suspended senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, stormed the chamber in company of suspected thugs
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, are currently holding a meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja. The meeting is taking place hours after Ovie Omo-Agege, a senator from Delta state, led suspected thugs into the senate chamber to cart away the mace, which is the symbol of authority of the legislature.
The police on Wednesday afternoon arrested suspended senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, at the National Assembly premises. Mr Omo-Agege was whisked away in a black hilux van at about 1:54 p.m. The arrest is in connection to the theft of the Senate mace, hours earlier. Senate spokesperson, Sabi Abdullahi, accused the senator of leading hoodlums to the
The Senate has asked the Inspector-General of Police and the State Security Service (SSS) to recover its mace, forcefully removed at the chambers by hoodlums on Wednesday. The call followed a resolution by the lawmakers at the end of a closed-door session held immediately after the removal of the mace, the symbol of authority for