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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), House, Legislature, Presidency, Senate
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Showdown looms between the National Assembly and the Presidency over non-implementation of its resolutions since 1999. As the House of Representatives settles down to discuss the report of its ad-hoc committee which investigated the fuel subsidy regime last Tuesday, indications emerged at the weekend that the Presidency believed that the incessant probes of federal ministries, […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), House, Latest Politics, Legislature
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
By Emmanuel Aziken, Clara Nwachukwu, CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, aDEMOLA aKINYEMI, Yemi Adeoye & Mike Eboh LAGOS—Ahead of tomorrow’s commencement of debate on the report of the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on the utilization of petroleum subsidies, industry and political stakeholders were weekend separately upbeat and muted over alleged errors in the recommendations. The Nigerian National […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
