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GREED: House okays N38.8bn jumbo allowance for members

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Each Rep now on N27m per quarter The quarterly allowance of members of the House of Representatives has hit the N27million mark. It used to be N15million per Representative This translates to an 80% increase and an additional N9.720billion strain on public purse every quarter or N38.88billion per year. The House leadership had been under […]

Oteh’s bribery allegation: Reps battle to save face

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Friday, March 16th, 2012

By Emma Ujah, abuja Bureau Chief, Gabriel Enocholase & Michael Eboh The N44m bribery allegations leveled against the Chairman of the House Committee on Capital Markets, Hon. Herman Hembe and members of his committee by the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Arunma Oteh may have unsettled the legislators. Meanwhile, Oteh has […]

1999 Constitution: N’Assembly seeks dismissal of Soyinka’s suit

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate, Wole Soyinka Thursday, March 15th, 2012

March 16, 2012 by Ade Adesomoju National Assembly has filed an objection to a suit by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Fred Agbeyegbe, seeking a Federal High Court, Lagos to declare that the amended 1999 Constitution is not an act of the people. The Clerk of the National Assembly, in a written address dated […]

Reps asked for N39m, N5m bribes – DG SEC

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, March 15th, 2012

The investigation by the House of Representatives of the Nigerian Capital Market took a dramatic twist on Thursday as the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arunma Oteh, accused the Chairman, House Committee on Capital Market and other Institutions, Mr. Herman Hembe, of corruption. Oteh alleged that the committee had demanded N39m from […]

Reps reject motion to return police checkpoints

Posted by admin House, Legislature Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

A few weeks after the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, ordered the dismantling of police checkpoints across the country, a member of the House of Representatives sponsored a controversial motion on Tuesday seeking to reverse it. Mr. Friday Itulah, a Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Edo State, however, failed in his bid, as the […]

Reps’ panel begins hearing on capital market

Posted by admin House, Legislature Sunday, March 11th, 2012

SEC okays amendment to listing rules THE House of Representatives will tomorrow begin public hearing on the state of the Nigerian capital market. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) also announced at the weekend that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved its proposed amendments to listing rules. Chairman of the House of Representatives […]

Budget: North rejects Southsouth’s vote

Posted by admin Budget, House, Latest Politics, Legislature, South-South Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Hon.Tambuwal Reps plan to summon Okonjo-Iweala IT was meant to fast track development, rebuild infrastructure and create jobs. But this year’s budget has, even before it takes off, become a document of acrimony. The Northern Caucus of the House of Representatives is protesting against the capital allocation to the Southsouth as against the share […]

2012 budget: CBN dares N’Assembly

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Monday, February 27th, 2012

The National Assembly and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may be on collision course over refusal of the apex bank to submit details of its 2012 budget for legislative scrutiny and approval. Rather than the full budget, CBN submitted a medium-term budget forecast for 2012-2015. Daily Sun gathered that Appropriation Committees in both chambers […]

Corps members serve as tea girls, boys at N’Assembly

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, Senate Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Some National Youth Service Corps members serving at the National Assembly have decried the shabby way they are treated by members of the legislature. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday showed that the corps members were disappointed after discovering that serving at the Assembly was neither rosy nor challenging, contrary to their expectations. A male […]

On a Sovereign National Conference and the Permission of The National Assembly – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, House, Legislature, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Senate Monday, February 20th, 2012

Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria, Feb. 20, 2012 – There are facts that only a few Nigerians, against the unrelenting witness of their conscience, can either ignore or dispute: Fact number 1: Not all ethnic nationalities are represented either at the state level or national level. And there are some ethnic nationalities that have […]