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Jumbo salaries: Reps evasive on court order (OBJ said, robbers in the NASS)

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, June 30th, 2012

The House of Representatives has avoided making a direct comment on whether it will comply with the order of an Abuja Federal High Court asking the National Assembly to compute and make public the total salaries and allowances collected by lawmakers from 1999 till date. The House, in a reaction to the decision of the […]

Faroukgate: Police uncover fresh $10m bribe

Posted by admin General Politics, House, Legislature, Top Stories Friday, June 29th, 2012

BYKINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA — Investigations by Police detectives into the $620,000 oil subsidy bribe money collected by Mr Farouk Lawan from oil magnate, Mr. Femi Otedola, have unearthed a wider financial scandal. It was gathered that oil marketers who were indicted in the report recently submitted to the government by the Aigboje Aig-Imoukuede-led panel that […]

Dana Air crash: Reps give mgt 7-day ultimatum to pay compensation

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Friday, June 29th, 2012

BY OKEY NDIRIBE & EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA — THE House of Representatives, yesterday, gave the management of Dana Air to an ultimatum to pay the required compensation to families of its ill-fated aircraft that crashed in Lagos, Sunday, June 3, 2012, killing all 153 pessengers on board. The resolution of the House followed a motion […]

Farouk Lawan: The Rot Deepens

Posted by admin House, Legislature Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

Farouk Lawan The crisis rocking the National Assembly deepens as the House of Representatives adopts desperate measures to redeem its image from the Oil Subsidy Probe scandal Last week the crisis rocking the House of Representatives deepened as the lawmakers faced the conflict of producing the marked $620,000 bribe money which Farouk Lawan, former […]

Hand over French ship to EFCC, Reps tell Navy

Posted by admin Armed Forces, EFCC Politics, House, Legislature Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

The House of Representatives Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream)/Navy has directed the Nigerian Navy to hand over the French ship, MT Vannessa, which was impounded on June 9 for allegedly being in possession of 8.5 million barrels of the country’s crude oil, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Announcing the decision of the […]

Dana plane crash: N300bn aviation intervention fund diverted –N’ Assembly

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

By: ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja Date: Thu, 06/21/2012 – 23:52 The National Assembly Joint Committee on Aviation investigating crash of the Dana and Allied Airlines Aircraft yesterday said N300 billion Aviation Intervention Fund has been diverted by industry operators. The committee, chaired by Senator Hope Uzodinma, also revealed how Air Nigeria allegedly accessed N39.3 billion out […]

Lawan returns to House, backs suspension by Reps

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, June 21st, 2012

June 22, 2012 by John Ameh, Abuja Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on Monitoring of Subsidy Regime, Mr. Farouk Lawan, made a dramatic reappearance at the House on Thursday, the first since the $3m bribery scandal involving him broke out. Chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, had claimed that he […]

Lawan promises to surrender N93m bribe

Posted by admin House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Raw Politics, Uncategorized Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Embattled lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, has finally promised to surrender the $500,000 bribe to the Special Task Force before the end of the week following serious psychological and physical pressures mounted on him by investigators. It was learnt that Lawan succumbed to the pressure mounted him by the STF Commissioner of Police, Ali Ahmodu, on Wednesday […]

$3m scandal: Confusion over whereabouts of $620,000

Posted by admin House, Latest Politics, Legislature Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Confusion reigned in Abuja on Tuesday as to the whereabouts of the $620,000 said to have been collected from oil magnate. Mr Femi Otedola by the embattled chairman of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on fuel subsidy scheme, Honourable Farouk Lawan. There were indications that the bribe- marked dollar notes- had been spent and could […]

Farouk Lawan’s Psalm 23

Posted by admin House, Legislature Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Otedola is my briber, I did not ask. He maketh me to sit down in his luxurious house. He leadeth me beside the chilled champagne. *wine* He exploited my greed. *gift* He leadeth me in the paths of marked dollars, for subsidy’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of EFCC, […]