Lawmaker representing Magama in the Niger State House of Assembly, Suleiman Musa Nasko, was attacked and chased out of the community by his constituents. Nasko was attacked on Saturday, March 19, when he went on a condolence visit to the families of the victims of bandit attack in which a Divisional Police Officer and six other security operatives were killed. The angry constituents comprising mostly of youths booed him and stoned his convoy out of town, saying “we are no …
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Lawmaker Akin Alabi has revealed how his daughter responded when he told her that she was beginning to look like him. Posting via his Twitter handle, Alabi wrote; ”I told my daughter she looks like me. She said are you saying I’m fat? This girl needs cane.”
The UK police say the Friday, October 15 killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident. Sir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday and a 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. In a Saturday morning, October 16 statement, the Metropolitan Police have revealed the killing has a potential link to Islamist extremism. Reports say the politician appears to …
A member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Kenneth Ogba is dead. Ogba, who was the member representing Isoko South Constituency 1, in the State Assembly, reportedly died on Sunday evening, June 27. It was gathered that the lawmaker slumped after attending a function at Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area of the state. He was said to have been rushed to a hospital in the town where doctors pronounced him dead. His …
Bauchi Emirate Council has suspended a lawmaker, Yakubu Shehu Abdullahi, as the traditional title holder of Wakilin Birnin, for disrespecting the Emir of Bauchi, Dr Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu. The suspension which was contained in a three-paragraph letter dated May 16, 2021, and signed by Nasiru Musa Maidala for Secretary of the Emirate, said the member representing Bauchi Federal Constituency in the House of Reps, appeared in Alkebba (a kind of regal robe) and Kandiri (a staff) before the Emir, which …
John Abah, the lawmaker representing Ibaji State Constituency is dead. Abah who is a second-term member, died in an undisclosed private hospital in Abuja in the early hours of Wednesday June 24. Abah won the Ibaji state constituency seat in 2015 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019. Speaker of the Assembly, Mr Matthew Kolawole who confirmed Abah’s death, described it as a monumental loss to the Seventh Assembly …