{"id":218845,"date":"2026-01-02T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-speaker-abbas-weathered-storms-kept-house-united-in-2025-agbese\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:33:34","slug":"nigeria-how-speaker-abbas-weathered-storms-kept-house-united-in-2025-agbese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-speaker-abbas-weathered-storms-kept-house-united-in-2025-agbese\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How Speaker Abbas Weathered Storms, Kept House United in 2025 &#8211; Agbese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">ABUJA &#8212; As Nigeria navigated economic reforms, political realignments and the demands of democratic consolidation in 2025, the leadership of the National Assembly came under intense national scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Against this backdrop, the Deputy Spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Rep. Philip Agbese, has said Speaker Abbas Tajudeen emerged from the year tested but strengthened, successfully navigating challenges that could have fractured the 10th House and eroded public confidence in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601020107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA &#8212; As Nigeria navigated economic reforms, political realignments and the demands of democratic consolidation in 2025, the leadership of the National Assembly came under intense national scrutiny. Against this backdrop, the Deputy Spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Rep. Philip Agbese, has said Speaker Abbas Tajudeen emerged from the year tested but strengthened, successfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[19520,258,256,53301,5110,257,4687,393,254,9632,16293,7866,39900],"class_list":["post-218845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abbas","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agbese","tag-house","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-storms","tag-united","tag-weathered"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}