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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
