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(Picture): Senator: how my driver robbed me at gun point

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Monday, March 19th, 2012

Font size: Uzamere Senator Ehigie Uzamere (Edo South) yesterday narrated how he escaped death on Friday in the hand of his driver who robbed him at gun point. The Action Congress of Nigerian (ACN) lawmaker said he was on his way to Benin City, the Edo State capital for the ACN convention when his […]

Reps search for investors in green field refineries

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, March 17th, 2012

The House of Representatives is organising an international oil summit next week in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, to show case Nigeria’s potentials in the industry with a view to attracting investors in the green field refineries. The Nigerian Refining Capacity Summit is scheduled for March 28 and 29, according to the Chairman of the House […]

Lawmaker cries out over Apapa traffic gridlock

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, March 17th, 2012

The lawmaker representing Apapa 1 constituency, Lagos, Hon. Mufutau Egberongbe, has described the near static traffic situation on the Tin Can Apapa Wharf highway as socially and economically suicidal. Speaking with reporters yesterday on the daily gridlock at the Apapa axis of Lagos state, Egberongbe said the situation is caused by the indiscriminate parking of […]

Senator robbed at gunpoint by his driver

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate, South-South Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Loses N8m, vital documents A Senator from one of the states in the South-south zone was on Friday robbed at gunpoint by his driver, who made away with N8million cash. Also taken away by the driver was the senator’s briefcase containing vital career documents including his international passport and that of his wife. The […]

GREED: House okays N38.8bn jumbo allowance for members

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Each Rep now on N27m per quarter The quarterly allowance of members of the House of Representatives has hit the N27million mark. It used to be N15million per Representative This translates to an 80% increase and an additional N9.720billion strain on public purse every quarter or N38.88billion per year. The House leadership had been under […]

Oteh’s bribery allegation: Reps battle to save face

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Friday, March 16th, 2012

By Emma Ujah, abuja Bureau Chief, Gabriel Enocholase & Michael Eboh The N44m bribery allegations leveled against the Chairman of the House Committee on Capital Markets, Hon. Herman Hembe and members of his committee by the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Arunma Oteh may have unsettled the legislators. Meanwhile, Oteh has […]

1999 Constitution: N’Assembly seeks dismissal of Soyinka’s suit

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate, Wole Soyinka Thursday, March 15th, 2012

March 16, 2012 by Ade Adesomoju National Assembly has filed an objection to a suit by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Fred Agbeyegbe, seeking a Federal High Court, Lagos to declare that the amended 1999 Constitution is not an act of the people. The Clerk of the National Assembly, in a written address dated […]

Senate approves N4.8 trillion 2012 budget

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Senate Thursday, March 15th, 2012

AFTER several months of committee work, the Senate yesterday passed a budget of N4, 877,209,156,933 for the 2012 fiscal year with an oil benchmark of $72 per barrel. Details of the budget presented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Ahmad Maccido and passed by the Senate showed that N372, 593, 095, 601 is […]

Reps asked for N39m, N5m bribes – DG SEC

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, March 15th, 2012

The investigation by the House of Representatives of the Nigerian Capital Market took a dramatic twist on Thursday as the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arunma Oteh, accused the Chairman, House Committee on Capital Market and other Institutions, Mr. Herman Hembe, of corruption. Oteh alleged that the committee had demanded N39m from […]

Reps reject motion to return police checkpoints

Posted by admin House, Legislature Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

A few weeks after the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, ordered the dismantling of police checkpoints across the country, a member of the House of Representatives sponsored a controversial motion on Tuesday seeking to reverse it. Mr. Friday Itulah, a Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Edo State, however, failed in his bid, as the […]