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N’Assembly tackles Obasanjo over corruption allegation

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Friday, May 25th, 2012

Senate President, David Mark By: ADETUTU FOLASHADE-IKOYI Date: Thu, 05/24/2012 – 13:30 For calling members of the National Assembly armed robbers and rogues, former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday incurred the wrath of the federal lawmakers. The former president had at the fourth Annual National Conference of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Studies (AES) in Lagos on […]

Senators, Reps tackle Obasanjo

Posted by admin Legislature, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Senate Thursday, May 24th, 2012

By OKEY NDIRIBE, Henry Umoru, Inalegwu Shaibu & EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA —THE Senate, yesterday, dared former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be courageous and name the rogues and armed robbers in the National Assembly. According to the Senate, if the former Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP could, in the spirit […]

Subsidy: Senate to quiz Okonjo-Iweala, KPMG, CBN, others

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate, Women Politics Thursday, May 24th, 2012

The Senate Joint Committee investigating the administration of fuel subsidy in the country has invited the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the Accountant General of the Federation; the Central Bank of Nigeria; and an audit firm, KPMG for questioning. The Chairman of the committee, Senator Magnus Abe, said the meeting with the invited […]

Opinion: David Mark and the Nigerian disgrace

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Thursday, May 24th, 2012

May 24, 2012 by Abimbola Adelakun (aa_adelakun@utexas.edu) In 2009, a Briton was sentenced to death in Laos, that tiny South-East Asian country that borders Thailand, for drug-related offences. She was saved by biology. As the story was reported in the media, this woman got a fellow Briton to donate her some semen, inserted it into […]

N894m contract scam: Bankole begs court to reject fresh evidence

Posted by admin House, Legislature Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — Erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, has begged a Federal High Court in Abuja to reject a fresh set of incriminating evidence the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, sought to tender against him, yesterday. The former Speaker, who is answering to a 16-count criminal charge […]

House c’ttee declares doctors’ strike illegal, unconstitutional

Posted by admin House, Lagos, Legislature, State News Monday, May 21st, 2012

By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna LAGOS — The House of Representatives Committee on Health, yesterday, declared that the solidarity strike by doctors under the employment of the Federal Government as illegal and unconstitutional even as the Lagos State Branch of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, yielded to pressure to reconsider its decision on the […]

Pandemonium over threat to bomb Senate President’s home

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Monday, May 21st, 2012

BY PETER DURU MAKURDI — Otukpo, the home of the Senate President, David Mark and headquarters of Idoma land in Benue State was at the weekend plunged into deep fear following alleged text messages being circulated of plans to bomb the town by a militant Islamic sect. The development forced security operatives to mount intensive […]

Reps threaten to jail AGF over audit queries

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, May 17th, 2012

House of Representatives committee on Public Accounts yesterday threatened to jail the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Jonah Otunla over his failure to respond to over 200 audit queries from the Auditor-General of the Federation. The lawmakers handed the threat when Otunla appeared before the committee in Abuja, ending speculations that he might not appear. […]

Senate backs death sentence for 16 Nigerians in Indonesia

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

May 16, 2012 by Oluwole Josiah, Abaja The Senate on Tuesday distanced itself from calls to intervene in the plight of 16 Nigerians facing death penalty for drug trafficking in Indonesia, saying they must face the full brunt of the law. It also urged the Federal Government to wash its hands off any attempt to […]

Capital market probe fallout:2 Reps to face trial over alleged N44m fraud

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, May 10th, 2012

An Abuja High Court yesterday granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to arraign Herman Hembe, the former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and Other Financial Institutions.??Justice Abubakar Umar also granted permission to EFCC to arraign the former Vice Chairman of the committee, Chris Azubogu, over […]