The Gombe State House Assembly has suspended four members of the All Progressive Congress for four legislative days, because of their involvement in the snatching of the mace of the state legislature and taking it away. The member who took the mace away, Abdullahi Abubakar,

The House of Representatives has summoned Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, over the killing of Nigerians in South Africa. The summon followed a motion on the need to protect the rights and lives of Nigerians in South Africa.

Mr Gidado informed Governor Muhammed Abubakar of his decision in a letter dated May 16. In the letter, Mr Gidado explained that his decision was based on his commitment to serve for only a single term as deputy governor of the state. “Ordinarily, I should have remained up to the end of the tenure, but, with the currently dampened spirit and waning zeal as it relates to my official engagements, my continued stay will not be fair and truthful to you as my brother and leader,” he wrote.

The Senate has asked heads of security agencies to send a special budget that would enable them tackle insecurity in the country. The Senate held a closed door session with the heads of security agencies over the proliferation of firearms and widespread killings across the country. The lawmakers were briefed in a closed-door session that lasted about four hours on Wednesday.

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, says President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to receive the 2018 budget a week after its passage by the National Assembly. The minister confirmed this development when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said those who mismanaged Nigeria’s economy in the past, through fraudulent electricity projects and misuse of revenue earnings from oil, had no love for the country. Receiving members of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali, at the Presidential Villa, the President urged Nigerians to remain vigilant and ensure that only people of conscience are in-charge of governance at all levels, as the nation prepares for general elections in 2019.