Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for the immediate resignation of Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, for his alleged inability to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians in the state. In a statement signed by its Senate President, Nazir Ashiru Galadanchi, after a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, NANS […]
OVER 2,000 men of the Nigerian Police Force have petitioned the Presidency and the National Assembly over what they described as alleged discrimination in the promotion of officers of the force who have acquired additional educational qualifications while in service to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP. The officers in the petition which […]
President of the Senate, David Mark, has debunked allegations made by Osun State Govenor, Rauf Aregbesola, that he and others were trying to destabilise the state. A statement by Mark’s Chief Press Secretary, Paul Mumeh, on Tuesday described Aregbesola’s allegation as spurious and unnecessary. Mark also demanded that the governor issued an unreserved apology for […]
The Democratic Front for Peoples Federation, a political party formed by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the fat salaries and allowances paid to the members of the National Assembly as criminal. The South-South Deputy National Chairman of the party, Mr. James Ebri, in a statement made available to our correspondent in […]
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has charged the governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to stop behaving like an Area Boy and provide purposeful leadership for his people. Reacting to allegations credited to the governor who alleged that some eminent Nigerians, including the President of the Senate, were raising funds to destabilise […]
Questions over why members of the Governors Forum of Nigeria loathe or dread the proposed enlarged National Executive Committees (NEC) of their various parties can begin to agitate the minds of some rational political enthusiast in the country now that the bubble seem to have burst in favor of the state chief executive officers. Why […]
The Senate on Wednesday carried out a minor reshuffle in the leadership of its committees, with a few senators losing their chairmanship seats and others assuming new positions The adjustment also saw the creation of a new Committee on Special Duties. Former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume, lost his seat as the chairman […]
THE statements credited to some key National Assembly leaders as reactions to the public rage against the national lawmakers’ outrageous pay clearly demonstrate that the venal parliament is not in a hurry to make a realistic adjustment to its obscene privileges. Despite an unprecedented wave of criticism, the National Assembly members are yet to unveil […]
THE Senate yesterday threatened to withhold allocations to all parastatals that fail to submit their 2011 budgets to the National Assembly for approval. At the close of debate on the general principle of the 2011 budget proposal forwarded by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Assembly last week, Senate President David Mark remarked that some […]
Five members of the House of Representatives reinstated by a Federal High Court in Abuja on December 2 on Wednesday filed contempt proceedings against the Speaker, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, and the Clerk to the House, Mr. Sani Omolori. The lawmakers are Mr. Dino Melaye, Mr. Solomon Awhinawhin, Mr. Bitrus Kaze, Mr. Independence Ogunewe and Mr. […]
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