{"id":175607,"date":"2025-08-22T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:56:00","slug":"benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt","title":{"rendered":"Benue Assembly Suspends Six Members Over Impeachment Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Benue State House of Assembly has suspended six lawmakers for six months over attempts to impeach the Speaker, Aondona Dajoh.<\/p>\n<p>They are member representing Makurdi North, Alfred Berger, his Kian state constituency counterpart, Terna Shimawua, Cyril Ekong of Obi state constituency, and James Umoru, representing Apa state constituency<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Benue State House of Assembly has suspended six lawmakers for six months over attempts to impeach the Speaker, Aondona Dajoh. They are member representing Makurdi North, Alfred Berger, his Kian state constituency counterpart, Terna Shimawua, Cyril Ekong of Obi state constituency, and James Umoru, representing Apa state constituency For More News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[6440,1578,254],"class_list":["post-175607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-benue-assembly","tag-breaking","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benue Assembly Suspends Six Members Over Impeachment Attempt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Benue State House of Assembly has suspended six lawmakers for six months over attempts to impeach the Speaker, Aondo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benue Assembly Suspends Six Members Over Impeachment Attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Benue State House of Assembly has suspended six lawmakers for six months over attempts to impeach the Speaker, Aondo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T12:45:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T14:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755862030.854837.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"608\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Benue Assembly Suspends Six Members Over Impeachment Attempt\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-22T12:45:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-22T14:56:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt\"},\"wordCount\":69,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755862030.854837.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Benue Assembly\",\"breaking\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-suspends-six-members-over-impeachment-attempt\",\"name\":\"Benue Assembly Suspends Six Members Over Impeachment Attempt - 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