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Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
The Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday, accused the aviation regulatory agencies in the country of conniving with foreign airlines to fix high air fares. Specifically, Mark described the arbitrary price charged by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as exploitative and unreasonable. Senator Hope Uzodinma with 27 others in a motion entitled: “Violation of Aviation […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
The House of Representatives on Wednesday frowned on the alleged “indiscriminate withdrawals” from the Stabilisation Account by the Federal Government, ordering an investigation into the matter. A motion by a lawmaker from Kano State, Mr. Haruna Fatahi, indicated that in the last eight months, the government had withdrawn “about N114bn” from the account and spent […]
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House, Legislature
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
House of Representatives yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of engaging in borrowing spree. The House said by so doing the president was flouting the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). It threatened to invoke the necessary provision if the president failed within 60 days to implement the Act. The Act passed into law in 2007 places a […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Senate, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
By PAUL BASSEY Supervising Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi yesterday got a standing ovation at the Senate Committee on Sports after volunteering to go and beg in the homes of aggrieved football administrators, who still have issues with the current board of the Nigeria Football Federation. Speaking at the second day of the Hearing on […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, House, Legislature
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
* It’s part of hidden agenda to kill her – Aide THE House of Representatives Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes has written the sacked chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, over her failure to hand over the property of the commission in her possession. The committee, through […]
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House, Legislature
Monday, March 26th, 2012
THE House of Representatives, on Sunday, maintained that its probe on the stock market collapse would be total, with the expected report that would shape the market and restore the confidence of the people. The House had, last week, dissolved its former committee on Capital Market and other Institutions led by Honourable Herman Hembe, over […]
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Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Wife of Senator George Seiko, representing Rivers Senatorial District, Princess Seiko, has been kidnapped in the outskirts of Port Harcourt. Mrs. Seiko was abducted by gunmen on new Airport Road by Oberg Ikwerre Complex on the East-West Road axis. The incident occurred just as the lifeless body of a man identified simply as George was […]
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Anambra, Legislature, Senate, State News
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Senator Andy Uba By Charles Onyekanmuo Senator Andy Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was Wednesday declared winner of the Anambra South senatorial district re-run election, which was conducted on March 20. To emerge victorious, Uba polled 42,802 votes to beat his closest rival, Hon. Chuma Nzeribe of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), […]
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Boko Haram, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
The trial of Senator Aliyu Ndume did not commence as scheduled on Wednesday as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja adjourned to April 26, 2012 for adoption of written addresses in a motion in which the senator is seeking to quash the charges brought against him by the Federal Government. Ndume is facing a […]
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Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Senate has said that bribery allegations by the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the former Chairman of House Committee on Capital Market, Hermen Hembe would not deter the National Assembly from continuing with its probe of federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). Senate spokesman, Enyinnaya Abaribe said this in Abuja […]
