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Nigeria:
PDP Chieftain Hails Omo-Agege Over Election As Deputy Senate President
Vanguard, 16 June 2019
Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has congratulated Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on his election on the floor of the Red Chamber as the Deputy… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Buhari Congratulates New National Assembly Leaders, Knocks 8th Assembly
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the newly elected presiding officers of the Ninth National Assembly. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Omo-Agege Wins Deputy Senate Presidency Election
Guardian, 11 June 2019
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressives Congress preferred candidate, has been elected as the deputy president of the Nigerian Senate. Read more »
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Nigeria:
How Lawan, Gbajabiamila Emerged National Assembly Leaders
Guardian, 12 June 2019
Weeks of campaign, political intrigues and horse-trading at the upper legislative chamber climaxed yesterday with the election of Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan and Ovie Omo-Agege as Senate… Read more »
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Nigeria:
9th NASS Leadership - How Lawan, Gbaja, Others Emerged Winners
Vanguard, 12 June 2019
AFTER over two months of posturing and horse-trading, the adopted candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, emerged leaders of the Ninth National… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NASS Election - Saraki Congratulates Lawan, Gbajabiamila
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Immediate past Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has congratulated his successor, Ahmed Lawan on his emergence as the President of the 9th Senate. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ali Ndume, Former Marketing Teacher, Who Tried to Be Senate President
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
When Ali Ndume joined politics in 2003, he may never have thought he would one day aim for the number three position in the country, but that was the challenge fate threw at his… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Omo-Agege, Lawmaker Who Allegedly Led Thugs to Steal Mace, Emerges Deputy Senate President
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Delta Central Senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, has emerged Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Lawan Announced as New Senate President
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Yobe North Senator, Ahmed Lawan, has been announced as Senate President on Nigeria's Senate President. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ndume Congratulates Lawan
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Borno Senator, Ali Ndume, appears to have accepted the outcome of Tuesday's election in the Senate. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Lawan Defeats Ndume, Set to Be Announced Nigeria's Senate President
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Ahmed Lawan is Nigeria's new Senate President. Mr Lawan defeated his rival and only other candidate, Ali Ndume. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Crossing Many Hurdles, Ahmed Lawan, a Former Lecturer Emerges As Senate President
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Nigeria now has a new Senate President. He Ahmed Lawan. Read more »
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Nigeria:
I'll Ensure Senators - Not Presiding Officers - Control Their 'Resources' - Ndume
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
Borno senator and contender for the position of the Senate President, Ali Ndume, has urged his colleagues to vote according to their conscience. Read more »
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Nigeria:
APC Endorses Omo-Agege, Who 'Sponsored' Mace Theft, for Deputy Senate President
Premium Times, 10 June 2019
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally announced its choices of candidates for Deputy Senate President and Deputy Speaker. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Anxiety, Intrigues As National Assembly Picks Leaders Today
Guardian, 11 June 2019
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held a series of meetings yesterday night aimed at advising its lawmakers on whom to vote for ahead of today's election of presiding… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Lawan, Ndume Face-Off in Race for Nigeria's Senate Presidency
Premium Times, 11 June 2019
The D-day is here when Nigeria's 109 senators-elect will choose their presiding officers who will pilot the affairs of the upper legislative chamber. Read more »
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Nigeria:
9th NASS - Fresh Twist As Court Orders Open Ballot System
Vanguard, 11 June 2019
Indications emerged, last night, that the 9th National Assembly may be in for a stormy session, today, as an Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari reportedly issued an interim order… Read more »
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Nigeria:
National Assembly Wears New Look Ahead Inauguration
Daily Trust, 11 June 2019
The National Assembly wore a new look yesterday ahead of today's inauguration of the 9th Assembly, billed for 10.am. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Avoiding Repeat of Tainted National Legislature As Ninth Senate Opens
Guardian, 11 June 2019
Today, Nigeria's federal bi-cameral legislature, the National Assembly, begins another parliamentary journey 20 years after the country's return to multi-party democracy. Look back… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NASS Leadership - Only Woman in Race Steps Down
Premium Times, 10 June 2019
Barely 24 hours to the election of the speaker of the 9th session of the House of Representatives, the only female candidate in the race, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has stepped down from… Read more »