Politics

The House of Representatives has been forced to adjourn plenary over the non-availability of order paper for the day’s plenary. The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, who was visibly angry, said he would hold all the staff responsible for the failure of the Order Paper to be produced for Thursday’s plenary on February 3, NAN reports. Infuriated by the development, the Speaker, expressed disappointment over the attitude of the officer in charge of the paper. The Order Paper is a publication containing the order of bills, motions, reports, and meetings to be treated on a legislative day. He subsequently asked that the officer be redeployed to another unit and replaced immediately. The Speaker said: “We adjourned plenary till11.00 am today. This is 11.20 and the House cannot function without the order paper. “Clerk, When I came in here, there was nobody on this roll. You were not here, your deputies were not…

2021 was indeed a busy year, on many fronts, for the Nigerian Navy. The year kicked off with a change of guard at the helm of the Service; the appointment of the then Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, at the time the Director, Procurement at Defence Space Administration (DSA), as the 21st Chief of the Naval Staff.

Progressives youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC) met in Lagos at a parley between young business stakeholders, political aspirants from the 6 Southwest states and Kwara and their counterparts in government.

The attention of the Governance Advisory Council (GAC) has been drawn to a vexatious post circulating on WhatsApp purporting that the GAC, party leaders and stakeholders have settled for a replacement for Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu.