The house Democrats rallied Sunday to elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker in the 117th Congress, overcoming opposition from a handful of restive moderates urging new leadership to grant Pelosi her fourth term at the top of the chamber.The 216-209 vote was more dramatic than anyone would have guessed just two months ago, when Democrats went into the elections predicting big gains to pad their House majority in 2021. Instead they lost at least 13 seats, trim...

As confirmed by one of the honourable members of the Edo state house of assembly, today 17 members of the Edo state House of Assembly held a parallel session at an undisclosed location. A situation that led to the impeachment of Frank Okiye has the Speaker and Honourable Agbaje Imam from Akoko Edo nominated Speaker.It will be recalled that since last year over half of the house of the assembly are yet to be officially swearing in by the clerk of the house and of re...

Yesterday, rumours have it that the deputy speaker of the house of representative, Hon Lasun Yusuf have left the ruling APC to the opposition party PDP, but the rumour has been official denied by the lawmaker Osogbo/Irepodun/Orolu/ Olorunda in Osun state at the house of representative.He spoke in a statement made available by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Wole Oladimeji, in Abuja.The statement reads: ”The defection story of Deputy Speaker of the House of Rep...