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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Senate orders Lufthansa to pay FG N2.19bn

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA — Senate Committee on Aviation has ordered Lufthansa Airlines to pay to the Federal Government N2.198 billion being debt owed from non-payment of royalty or face sanctions. The committee also summoned former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Babatunde Omotoba, to appear before it tomorrow over the violation of aviation laws by Lufthansa. […]

Insecurity: We can only shout on Jonathan – Sen. Ojodu

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

BY BASHIR ADEFAKA Senator Babafemi Ojudu, vice chairman, Senate Committee on Public Service and Establishment told Vanguard in his office at the National Assembly, Abuja that efforts so far made by the authorities to address the insecurity situation in the country have only touched the surface of the problems. The opposition he claims has been […]

NASS to publish guidelines on constitutional amendment soon – Ekweremadu

Posted by admin Constitution, House, Legislature, Senate Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

The guidelines on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution will be published within the next few days, Chairman of the National Assembly Constitution Amendment Committee, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has said. Ikweremadu announced this during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday. “Very shortly, maybe in the next few days we are going to […]

President, govs to lose immunity – NASS seeks their trial in criminal cases

Posted by admin Governors, House, Legislature, National Politics, Senate, Top Stories, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

If the push by lawmakers sails through in a fresh amendment of the 1999 Constitution, the President, his deputy, all governors and their deputies may lose immunity from prima-facie criminal cases. Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution presently confers immunity on the President and governors. The extant section 308 (a) states: “No civil or criminal […]