EKWEREMADU CONGRATULATES SOLUDO

• * Pledges To Work With Him If Elected Governor Enugu state In 2023

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has congratulated the newly inaugurated Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo, on his inauguration, saying his election was divine as he meets the job description at a challenging time for the South East region.

EKWEREMADU EXPLAINS WHY SENATE QUERIED N16B EROSION MANAGEMENT LOAN REPAYMENT

• * Says It's Premature, Untidy, As Appropriation Chairman Commends Committee

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said the Senate Committee on Environment identified and questioned the N16 billion proposed in the 2022 Appropriation Bill for the repayment of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP, as the loan was still covered by a 10-year moratorium expiring in 2023.

EKWEREMADU HAILS BUHARI APPROVAL OF NEW ELECTORAL ACT

* Says Nigeria Making Gradual Progress In Electoral Reform Measures

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has commended the signing into law of the Electoral Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill, describing it as a quantum leap for the nation's democracy.

EKWEREMADU IN MONTENEGRO FOR INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY SESSION

• * Suggests How To Handle Spate Of Ethnic Agitations
• Advocates New System Of Govt, Single Chamber Legislature

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday, July 15, 2021, joined his colleagues for the session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace, IPTP, holding in the Republic of Montenegro on Thursday and Friday, July 15 to 16, 2021.

EKWEREMADU MOURNS JOSEPH WAYAS, EX-SENATE PRESIDENT

• * Describes Him As A Veteran Of The Nigerian Parliament

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed sadness over the passing on of Nigeria’s former President of the Senate, Senator Joseph Wayas, describing him as a veteran of the Nigerian legislature and key player in Nigeria’s constitutional development.

EKWEREMADU MOURNS MANTU, SAYS NIGERIA LOST A LEGISLATIVE ICON

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed sadness and shock over the death of his predecessor, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, noting that Nigeria had lost a legislative icon.

EKWEREMADU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS IN 2023

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Although media reports on Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s official assignment in Montenegro where he attended a pre-scheduled regular session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) as Nigeria’s representative and also presented the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Assembly of Nigeria and the IPTP have clearly put paid to the false claims and insinuations that the Senator stayed away from the Senate plenary of Thursday, July 15 during which the upper chamber voted on the Electoral Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill, the Office deems it imperative to further put the record straight and restate his faith that electronic transmission of results will still be part of the 2023 general election.

EKWEREMADU PREACHES LOVE, PEACE AT CHRISTMAS

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has urged Nigerians to embrace the values of love, peace, unity, and sacrifice espoused by Christmas in order to move the nation forward.

EKWEREMADU TASKS CHURCHES ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, NATION BUILDING

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has dismissed the notion that churches and devout Christians are not supposed to show interest in politics, describing it as self-exclusion from good governance and nation-building.

EKWEREMADU TASKS IGBO DIASPORA ON SOUTH EAST STABILITY

* Says S/East NASS Caucus Exploring Political Solution Towards Nnamdi Kanu's Release

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekwermadu, has enjoined the Igbo in diaspora to offer strong voices against violent agitations and also bring their influences to bear in the search for security and stability in Igbo land.

EKWEREMADU TASKS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE ON A NEW CONSTITUTION

• * Highlights Successful And Unsuccessful Amendments

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has tasked the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS, on creating a pathway for the making of a new constitution.

EKWEREMADU WITHDRAWS FROM ENUGU GUBER RACE, BACKS PDP CANDIDATE, PETER MBA

• * Says It's Time To Unite

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Former Deputy Senate President and a governorship aspirant in the 2023 gubernatorial race in Enugu state, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has formally withdrawn from the governorship contest.

EKWEREMADU'S BILL ON SECOND RIVER BASIN DEVT AUTHORITY IN SOUTH EAST SCALES SECOND READING IN SENATE

• * Proposed New River Basin To Boost Agric Extension In Igboland

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

A Bill to amend the provisions of the River Basins Authorities Act 2004 to create an additional River Basin Development Authority in the South East region scaled the Second Reading at Senate Plenary on Tuesday.

EKWEREMADU'S ORGAN DONOR A SERIAL LIAR, Says Mefor, a Forensic Psychologist

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

A forensic psychologist, Dr. Law Mefor, has described David Nwamini Ukpo, the man at the centre of the issues leading to the arrest and remand of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Dr. Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, as a 'serial liar', who should not be taken seriously.

EL-RUFAI AND THE SHORT TREK TO POSTERITY

By Hassan Gimba

The chickens, the saying goes, always come home to roost. But some people would prefer to be Shakespearean by quoting the insightful words uttered by Marc Antony in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, “the evil that men do lives after them while the good is oft interred with their bones.”

Election Anomaly: DATTI-AHMED, OKOWA IN JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE

• * Insists INEC Must Thread Path Of Honour By Canceling Poll Results Being Collated

By Desmond Ukandu (Politics Editor)

Amidst controversy over the credibility of the Presidential poll result being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential candidates, Senators Datti Baba-Ahmed and Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday, addressed a joint news conference in Abuja.

Election Day: PDP URGES PEACE IN TODAY'S POLL EXERCISE

• * Caution Against Intimidation, Harassment In Nasarawa State

By David Okpashi (Nasarawa State Correspondent, in Lafia)

The Nasarawa State Chapter of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has advised politicians to desist from using violent measures in addressing areas of disagreements that may erupt during today's election.

Election Field Reports: LAGOSIANS EXPRESS FEAR OVER THEIR SAFETY AT POLLING UNITS, LAMENT LOW TURN OUT

• * As Party Thugs Unleash Violence, Prevent Them From Voting

• 'They Chased Us Out With Canes, Flogged Us', Alleges Female Electorate

• Non-Yoruba Voters Allegedly Discriminated Against

By Julius Oritse (Lagos State Correspondent)

Some residents of Lagos State have expressed fear about going to their various polling units to exercise their civil responsibilities during today’s gubernatorial election.

Election Reports: LOGISTICS HITCHES IN NIGER STATE, AS VOTERS TURN-OUT IN LARGE NUMBERS

• * Gov Sani Bello Commends Peaceful Process

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

Accreditation and voting for the Presidential and National Assembly elections in parts of Niger state started peacefully, but not without hitches caused by the delayed arrival of electoral materials/INEC staff at some Polling Units (PUs) and the inability of some Electoral Officers (EOs) to operate the BVA capturing machines.

Election Stress: TINUBU FLOWN OUT OF NIGERIA TO 'REST', ATTEND LESSER HAJJ IN SAUDI ARABIA

By Olutayo Aderinokun (Politics Correspondent)

Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the February 25th elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been flown out of the country for vacation and eventual spiritual pilgrimage (lesser Hajj) at the Islamic Holy Land in Saudi Arabia.