By CHARLES KUMOLU SENATOR Nkechi Nwaogu is the Senate Committee Chairman on Gas. In this interview, she frowns at the budget cycle in Nigeria, adding that it is responsible for the frequent budget face-off between the executive and the legislature. Nwoagu also wants an agreement that would allow the National Assembly to make inputs into […]
THE lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr. Ogbonna Nwuke, has condemned the arrest and detention of suppoters of Governor Rotimi Amaechi in the Peoples Democratic Party in his constituency. In a statement made available to journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Nwuke accused the police of bias in the political crisis […]
By Dakuku Peterside | Abuja, Nigeria | August 5, 2013 – All men of goodwill who look forward to a more progressive and equitable world appreciate the tremendous good Transparency International, TI does with its periodic verdict on nations and institutions across the globe. Sometimes I just wonder what our world would look like without […]
Halfway into the tenure of the Senate, 34 senators have not sponsored any bill since coming to office, according to official records released by the Senate. The Senate’s Mid-Term Assessment Report shows that of the total 109 senators, 74 have sponsored at least a bill during the period starting June 2011 while the rest initiated […]
By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye | Calgary, AB | July 30, 2013 – Against the background of the recent furore on alleged legalisation of child marriages by the upper chamber of the Nigerian legislature, this piece, as the title indicate, is written to seek answers to questions which in my private rumination I have not been […]
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor They are three senators with a common streak of having been pushed out of office by the courts. Now Senators Chris Ngige, Emma Anosike and Andy Uba are in the frontline in the battle to succeed the outgoing governor of Anambra State. Yesterday, Senator Chris Ngige stole the show in […]
The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday empowering it and the House of Representatives to take over the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly. In the resolution which concurs with that of the House on July 10, the Senate also flayed the attempt by five anti-Rotimi Amaechi lawmakers to impeach the state […]
By SAM EYOBOKA, SOLA OGUNDIPE, HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA— SENATE President, David Mark, yesterday, said proponents of Section 29 (4)(b) in the constitution hid under religious guise to get the section sail through during last week’s clause-by-clause voting in the on-going constitution amendment process. He said it was time Nigerians shunned religion when […]
By Philip Amiola | Lagos, Nigeria | July 25, 2013 – I have never been more grieved about the condition of the Nigerian state. Why do our leaders continue to make us a laughingstock before the world? We were just recovering from the Governors’ Forum fracas when we were again jolted by the show of […]
The dateline was Wednesday, July 17, 2013 and the environment indeed wore a mournful look as the Senate held a special valedictory session in honour of one its own, Senator Akpor Pius Ewherido, who represented who Delta Central Senatorial District on the platform of the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) and who changed mortality for immortality […]
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