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1 week ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
Commissioner for Policy, Personnel, and Finance of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Aliyu Abdulrazaq, has dismissed claims that he is favouring staff from the South-South region in the selection process for the 2025 Hajj operation.
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1 week ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
The Forum of Former Speakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared support for the party’s move to take legal action against elected officials who defected to other parties while holding PDP mandates.
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1 week ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the governors of Benue and Zamfara states, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, and Dauda Lawal Dare, respectively, to appear before it on Thursday, May 8, 2025, to explain the petitions asking for the take-over of the functions of the respective state parliaments. Expected to appear alongside the governors are the leadership of the Benue and Zamfara states’ Houses of Assembly.
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1 week ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
A group, Public Interst Lawyers (PIL), has called for support of the United States of America for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s proclamation of a state of emergency in Rivers state. The lawyers during a peaceful march to the American embassy in Abuja on Friday maintained that under Section 305 of the Nigerian Constitution, the president had discretionary powers to proclaim a state of emergency if public safety and public order were threatened.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control, Amobi Ogah has accused the Minister of State for Labour, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, of forging election results in the 2023 National Assembly elections.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
The Enugu State Caucus in the House of Representatives has thrown its weight behind the federal government’s plan to concession the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, describing it as a potential catalyst for the South East economy. The caucus commended the federal government for the initiative and urged it to hasten the concession process to enable the people of the South East and the nation to benefit from it in earnest.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
In a bid to improve education and roads infrastructure, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has commissioned several development projects in his Bende Federal Constituency of Abia state. The commissioning which commenced last Friday saw Kalu visiting 3 wards of Bende town, the headquarters of the constituency which also serves as the local government headquarters of the Bende; Itumbauzo as well as Uzuakoli wards.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has declared that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserved a second term considering the successes he recorded, urging the Igbo to support his reelection in 2027. Kalu stated this when he received seperately on a courtesy call in Umuahia, the Tinubu Mandate Support Group (TMSG), Abia State Chapter, led by Hon. Armstrong Okoronkwo and Club 17 initiative members led by Prince George Nnanna.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
Eight members of theOsun Caucus of the House of Representatives have reaffirmed their unwavering loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Governor Ademola Adeleke.
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2 weeks ago | 
blueprint.ng | Joshua Egbodo
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has stressed the need for the South-east to align decisively with the centre to benefit maximally from President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. He made the call while unveiling the Renewed Hope Partners (RHP), a multipurpose vehicle aimed at realising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second-term bid in Umuahia, Abia state on Friday.
