-Vanguard By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, refused to treat the budget proposal for the Federal Ministry of Information due to lack of provision for media propaganda in the North East. The Senate Committee on Information, which took the decision during the ministry’s budget defence, insisted that the ministry must not […]
Senate Committee on Works has queried the Federal Ministry of Works over N4billion it gave out to 11 road contractors across the country last year as mobilization fees without any one of them moving to site to construct a meter of road not to talk of kilometers of roads awarded to them. The committee also […]
By Michael Jegede Former Senate President, Senator David Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and one-time President of West Africa Students Union (WASU), Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will be slugging it out on February 20, 2016, in the rerun of Benue South senatorial election. After the March 28, 2015 […]
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, forwarded to the senate, two new bills meant to effectively tackle the menace of money laundering in the country. The first bill is titled, ” Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Bill 2016″ while the second one is “Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill 2016.” The president’s […]
The Supreme Court has removed Stella Oduah and Andy Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party as lawmakers representing Anambra State. The ruling means the election of all three Senators representing Anambra State had been nullified. The election of Uche Ekwunife was nullified by the Court of Appeal in December. Ekwunife defected from the PDP to […]
More reactions and vituperation have continued to trail former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to the leaderships of the two chambers of the National Assembly where he accused the lawmakers of being neck-deep in corruption. The House, through its spokesman, Abdulrasak Namdas, said that the allegation was probably for the fourth and fifth National Assembly during […]
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Thursday, announced that the Senate will only accept the version of the 2016 Appropriation Bill that was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015 Joint Session of the National Assembly. Saraki made this statement after the Senate ad hoc committee setup to investigate the claims […]
By Emman Ovuakporie and Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives,Yakubu Dogara has recounted how he lost his first cousin, a Divisional Police Office, DPO, serving in Borno State to the Boko Haram sect in one of the attacks in the area. Dogara who disclosed this when he visited the Wassa Internally Displaced […]
By Henry Umoru ABUJA-DEPUTY President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has warned that continued detention of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh was designed by the Federal Government to gag the mouthpiece of the opposition. Ekweremadu who stressed the need for the All Progressives Congress, APC led […]
By Dapo Akinrefon Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has said that the National Assembly is not aware of the fuel subsidy removal and the hike in electricity tariff, noting that the Federal Government is yet to communicate its decision to the Assembly. Giving a report of activities of the House of […]
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