Despite being vocal on the floor of the Senate, former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Adams Oshiomhole is yet to sponsor a bill. Along with his colleagues, the former Edo State governor was sworn in in the red chamber of the National Assembly on 13 June 2023. He is a first timer in the Senate. …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, and many other prominent Nigerians have condoled with former Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the death of his mother, Hajiya Halima (Baba) Ibrahim. The late Hajia Ibrahim was laid to rest yesterday at Gashua in Bade Local Government Area of Yobe State. She was 86. Akpabio and Jibrin expressed grief at …

Former Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, on Thursday said the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) has restored the confidence of Nigerians in the nation’s electoral processes and the judiciary. Reacting to the outcome of the three petitions filed against the results of the 2023 presidential …

Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan has urged all the opposition political parties to team up with the incoming government of the All Progressives Congress(APC) to jointly take Nigeria to the next level of development. Lawan said the elections were over and what was left is governance which is for everyone. While receiving a delegation of the Organisation of African, Caribbean …

The Supreme Court has affirmed Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan as the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Yobe North. In a majority judgment delivered on Monday, the apex court allowed the appeal filed by the APC against Bashir Machina’s candidature. Delivering the judgment, three out of a five-member panel agreed with the position of the APC that the …

Even as Senate President Ahmad Lawan accepted his fate in the Yobe North senatorial ticket controversy, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his home state has vowed to appeal last Wednesday’s judgment affirming Alhaji Bashir Machina as the party’s candidate for the senatorial district. The Federal High Court in Damaturu declared Machina as the authentic APC candidate for the Yobe North …

Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan has given up on contesting the senatorial candidacy of Alhaji Bashir Machina for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe North district. The Federal High Court in Damaturu on Wednesday confirmed Machina as the candidate of the party for the district, which Lawan has represented since 2007. Lawan has been in the National Assembly since …

The Federal High Court in Damaturu has knocked the wind out of the sails of Senate President Ahmad Lawan by declaring Alhaji Bashir Machina as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Yobe North Senatorial district election next 25th February. In her almost two hours judgment, Justice Fadima Aminu ordered the APC to immediately send Machina’s …