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Nigeria not ripe for diaspora voting, says Andy Uba

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Monday, April 23rd, 2012

BY Henry Umoru ABUJA — CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Andy Uba, PDP, Anambra South, has said if the commission must carry out the prosecution of one million suspects for electoral offences, there was the need for holistic electoral reforms to be carried out. He also said Nigeria was not […]

Senate, task force to investigate 40 pension offices

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Friday, April 20th, 2012

The Chairman, Senate Joint Committee on Establishment on Public Service Matters and Management of Pension Funds, Senator Aloysius Etok, has said the committee will investigate all Federal Government’s pension offices in the country. In an interview with our correspondent, Etok said the committee would get to the root of the problems confronting pensioners in the […]

Senate begins process for constitutional amendment

Posted by admin Constitution, Legislature, Senate Thursday, April 19th, 2012

May not work with Reps IN response to the yearnings of Nigerians, the Senate yesterday began the process of another phase of Constitutional Review. It is not certain however if both Houses are going to be working together this time judging from the tone of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, while addressing journalists […]

How they bleed Nigeria!

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Thursday, April 19th, 2012

House report reveals rot in subsidy, oil sector Says 35 firms collected allocation without registration Panel asks NNPC, PPPRA, marketers to refund N1.1tr Queries national oil corporation’s solvency Indicts Offices of Budget, Accountant-General Blacklists three audit firms Wants PPPRA’s ex-scribe prosecuted Seeks two ministers of petroleum resources Proposes N557b subsidy for 2012 IT was a […]

Senate Directs Foreign Airlines to Remit 5% Surcharge

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

The Senate Committee on Aviation yesterday at the public hearing on air fare disparity, directed all foreign airlines to pay back the five per cent of all Passenger Fuel Surcharge (PFS) to the federal government, insisting that the claim of ignorance on the part of the airlines was not excuse enough. The committee had slammed […]

Reps probe N4.5b hospital funds

Posted by admin House, Legislature Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

THE House of Representatives yesterday mandated its committees on Health and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to investigate what the lawmakers described as “suspicious mismanagement” of N3.8 billion from the N4.5 billion approved by President Goodluck Jonathan to establish an American hospital and the American University of Medical Sciences in Nigeria. In 2005, the Federal […]

Press Release: Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to deliver 6th Annual Oputa Lecture at York University in Toronto

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Friday, April 6th, 2012

by ADMIN on Apr 5, 2012 • 10:50 AM 3 Comments The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu is scheduled to deliver the 6th Annual Oputa Lecture on Governance in Africa, an annual lecture series organised by the York University, Toronto, Canada. According to information made available to IMO STATE BLOG by his Special Adviser […]

Senate discovers another missing N4.6bn pension fund

Posted by admin Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Senate discovers another missing N4.6bn pension fundApril 5, 2012 by Nike Popoola The Senate joint committee investigating the management of the public sector pension scheme has discovered that a fresh N4.6bn is missing from funds under the old pension scheme. The Chairman of the committee, Senator Aloysious Etok, who disclosed this to our correspondent in […]

Money laundering: Senators, Reps slam FG

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Sunday, April 1st, 2012

The National Assembly has accused the Federal Government of lacking the political will to deal with offenders under the Anti-Money Laundering Act. The Senate and the House of Representatives said it was the government’s lack of the will to go after money launderers that was responsible for the non-enforcement of the Act. Nigeria’s name is […]

Reps begin probe of Nigerien influx into Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, House, Latest Politics, Legislature Friday, March 30th, 2012

The House of Representatives, yesterday ordered its Committees on Public Safety and National Security, Foreign Affairs, Interior and the Police Affairs to probe the migration of Nigeriens into Nigeria. The House also urged the Federal Government to, urgently provide aids to border communities and the migrants. Such aid it said, should be in form of […]