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Security beefed up in NASS as Reps resume today

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Monday, June 27th, 2011

AHEAD of today’s resumption of senators and members of the House of Representatives, after about three weeks break, security network at the National Assembly (NASS) has been beefed up. The development resulted in long queues of cars at the entrance of the National Assembly, which almost paralysed the activities at centre. As part of the […]

Hope rises as Senate gets ministers’ list tomorrow

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Legislature, Ministries, Senate Monday, June 27th, 2011

THE long wait for the ministers’ list may end tomorrow as President Goodluck Jonathan is set to present to the Senate. With that, an end would have come to the vacillation by the President over his choice of who should be ministers and Nigerians would heave a sigh of a relief that real governance can, […]

National Assembly to review constitution, revenue formula

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Monday, June 27th, 2011

WHAT to expect from the seventh National Assembly emerged yesterday as the Senate unveiled its agenda for Nigerians in the new dispensation. When full legislative business begins, the National Assembly will again for the second time in less than two years amend the 1999 Constitution to address growing agitations against some perceived grey areas in […]

Mark lists agenda for 7th Senate (Endless Agenda – No Substance)

Posted by admin Senate Sunday, June 26th, 2011

ABUJA — The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has said part of his legislative agenda in the Senate was to collaborate with the executive arm of government in order to truly transform Nigeria. In a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, Mark enjoined his colleagues to brace up for the challenge of providing qualitative […]

Jumbo salaries: Reps ready for reduction – Greedy Legislooters

Posted by admin House, Latest Politics, Legislature Friday, June 24th, 2011

ABUJA-Members of the House of Representatives may agree with the majority of Nigerians that the welfare package for the legislators should be reduced. They, however, are insisting that any cut to their N42 million quarterly allocation should be made to be across board. Hysteria over the welfare package of legislators recently swept the nation following […]

No court has power to try me – Bankole

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Top Stories Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

ABUJA—EMBATTLED former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, challenged the power of an Abuja High Court sitting at Apo, to try him for alleged fraud. Bankole who went before the high court with an application seeking to quash the entire criminal charge against him, maintained that no court has the power to […]

Reps to repeal anti-FoI Acts –Tambuwal

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

To fast-track the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan last May, the House of Representatives said it would constitute a Committee on Reform of Government Institutions and Process as provided for in Section 29, Sub-section 4 of the Act. Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal, who gave […]

Bomb blast: N’Assembly rolls out new security measures

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

In order not to be caught unawares the second time, government at different levels and sensitive agencies of the Federal Government have mapped out new strategies aimed at curbing the Boko Haram insurgence. The security alert, which was sequel to last week’s bombing of the Force Headquarter, Abuja, was a fallout of a meeting between […]

Senate drops demand for ministerial list with portfolios

Posted by admin Legislature, Ministries, Senate Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

NOW, President Goodluck Jonathan is at liberty to attach portfolios or refrain when he sends the ministerial list to the Senate, hopefully next week. This follows the Senate decision to shift ground on earlier insistence that the President’s attachment of portfolios to the list was mandatory. Senate President David Mark confirmed the new position yesterday […]

Bomb Blast : Lawmaker Challenges Jonathan

Posted by admin Boko Haram, House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Sunday, June 19th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya, who represents Kano South senatorial district in the senate, has called on the federal government to fish out those behind the suicide bomb attack on the Police Force Headquarters, Abuja. Gaya, who spoke to THISDAY on a number of national issues on Friday in Kano, called on President […]