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Senate lambasts DPR over delay of gas monitoring projects

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA — The Senate has lambasted the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, over its inability to fast track the installation of gas pipelines to facilitate the supply of gas generated in the country. The Senator Nkechi Nwoagu-led committee on gas had summoned DPR to explain the continuous inclusion of the construction of […]

NFF stinks of corruption –Senate

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

The Senate concluded on Tuesday that the Nigeria Football Federation portrayed a circus of corruption, given the manner it had administered football in the last few years. Football’s dwindling fortunes in the country came under examination on the floor of the Senate, with senators expressing the need to immediately reverse the situation. As a step […]

National conference must comply with Constitution – Senate

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

February 29, 2012 by Oluwole Josiah, Abuja The Senate on Tuesday clarified its position on the Sovereign National Conference, saying any national dialogue must be subjected to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution as amended. It also said it was not against the holding of a national conference to discuss the way forward for […]

Senate stops FRSC’s new vehicle plates, licences

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

The Senate on Wednesday directed the Federal Road Safety Commission to stop the implementation of the new driver’s licence and vehicle number plates. The Senate, which issued the directive at its sitting, also mandated its Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs to conduct a public hearing on the new scheme with a view to […]

National confab is call for anarchy, says Senate (What are you afraid of?)

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Probes corruption in sports sector WITH a dispiriting verdict that the raging agitation for a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) is an invitation to anarchy, the Senate left no one in doubt yesterday that it would not yield to the clamour. The Senate, which is riled by the perennial failures of the handlers of […]

2012 budget: CBN dares N’Assembly

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Monday, February 27th, 2012

The National Assembly and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may be on collision course over refusal of the apex bank to submit details of its 2012 budget for legislative scrutiny and approval. Rather than the full budget, CBN submitted a medium-term budget forecast for 2012-2015. Daily Sun gathered that Appropriation Committees in both chambers […]

Corps members serve as tea girls, boys at N’Assembly

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, Senate Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Some National Youth Service Corps members serving at the National Assembly have decried the shabby way they are treated by members of the legislature. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday showed that the corps members were disappointed after discovering that serving at the Assembly was neither rosy nor challenging, contrary to their expectations. A male […]

How Kabiru Sokoto escaped from police custody – Senate report •Says 58 policemen arrested him at night

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Poice Affairs, Senator Paulinus Nwagu, on Tuesday, presented the report of the investigative committee to the Senate, giving a blow by blow account of how Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Sokoto, disappeared from police custody. Sokoto, initially arrested on January 14, had dramatically escaped from police custody within 24 hours of arrest, […]

On a Sovereign National Conference and the Permission of The National Assembly – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, House, Legislature, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Senate Monday, February 20th, 2012

Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria, Feb. 20, 2012 – There are facts that only a few Nigerians, against the unrelenting witness of their conscience, can either ignore or dispute: Fact number 1: Not all ethnic nationalities are represented either at the state level or national level. And there are some ethnic nationalities that have […]

Senate Clears 84 New Ambassadors

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Thursday, February 9th, 2012

The Senate yesterday confirmed the nominations of 84 out of the 88 ambassadorial nominees sent to it last year by President Goodluck Jonathan. Twenty-eight of the confirmed envoys who are political nominees are non-career ambassadors while the remaining 56 are career envoys. Among the new ambassadors are:, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Aviation, Chief […]