Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has threatened to invoke the necessary sections of the constitution to enable the state government halt the ongoing rehabilitation of the 32-km Audu/Azara road over poor work. The House said the rehabilitation job, estimated to cost N3.1 billion, is being poorly executed, warning...
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The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has constituted a 9-man Ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged sales of government properties in Lagos and other states by the former administration of Tanko Al-Makura. The Speaker of the House, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, announced the resolution after Mr Mohammed Omadefu, the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has inaugurated a 7-man committee to investigate the alleged diversion of palliatives by government officials and stakeholders in the state. The Speaker, Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, inaugurated the committee on Monday at the conference hall of the...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has said that 12 people died in a boat mishap at river Kogi Kungra Kamfani in Arikiya electoral ward of Lafia Local of Government Area of the state on Aug. 20. The Speaker of the House, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, made this known during...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has submitted the names of 17 commissioner-nominees to the State House of Assembly for screening and confirmation as members of the State Executive Council. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, announced this during an...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia- Few days after resolving the one month old crisis that rocked Nasarawa State House of Assembly and subsequent emergence of Balarabe Abdullahi, as Speaker, new principal officers have been appointed to run the affairs of the house. The Speaker of the house, Rt. Hon...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia- The leadership tussle rocking the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has been put to rest today following fresh inauguration and the subsequent election of Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi ( APC- Umaisha/ Ugya) as the Speaker of the 7th Assembly. Similarly, the assembly also...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders forum on Wednesday urged the National Assembly to wade into the crisis rocking the Nasarawa State House of Assembly. Convener of the Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Shaibu made the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on June 8,...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The factional deputy speaker of Ogazi’s camp, Mohammed Oyanki, in the raging crisis that engulfed Nasarawa State house of assembly since last week has dumped the embattled Speaker, Daniel Ogah Ogazi. Two other members who also dumped Ogazi and were sworn in today included...
A Federal High Court, Lafia has been urged to stop Alhaji Balarabe Abdullahi (APC-Umaisha/Ugya) and Mr Jacob Kudu from parading themselves as speaker and deputy speaker of Nasarawa State House of Assembly. The court was also urged to make “an order nullifying the purported oath of office taken on the 6th...
The police has sealed off the Nasarawa House of Assembly Complex, to avert a breakdown of law and order following the emergence of two speakers for the seventh assembly. DSP Ramhan Nansel, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) said this on Wednesday in a statement in Lafia. Nansel...
The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, says his emergence as re-elected speaker of the House followed due process and constitutional provisions. Abdullahi stated this on Wednesday in Lafia while inspecting the level of damage done to facilities at the Assembly complex following leadership tussle that...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Gov Abdullahi Sule, of Nasarawa State, had approved the re-appointment of the Secretary to State Government, Barr Aliyu Ubandoma. The re-appointment of Ubandoma, was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary in charge of Cabinet Affairs and Special Duties, in the office...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – As the 7th Nasarawa State House of Assembly (NSHA), is about to be inaugurated on Tuesday this week, a group known as ‘Nasarawa State Concerned Citizens’, wants democracy to prevail in order to have a credible and acceptable principal officers of the assembly. The...
The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, says the oil discovery in the state is a landmark achievement of Gov. Abdullahi Sule’s stewardship. Abdullahi said the feat will stand the test of time in the history of the state. The speaker stated this on Monday in...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Due to the limited number of superior court judges, the Nasarawa State House of Assembly says on Tuesday next week, it would pass into law ‘A Bill For a Law to Amend the Number of Judges of the Superior Courts of Record Law 2001...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – As the 6th assembly prepares to wind down to usher in the 7th assembly, member representing Kokona West constituency, at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Danladi Jatau, has said he is more experienced and competent to be the next speaker. Hon Jatau,...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has threatened to dissolve Doma Local Government Legislative Council, if the councilors failed to embrace peace due to the crises rocking the legislative arm. The Chairman, House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Mohammed Alkali, made the House position known during...