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EFCC Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Senate yesterday warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to treat anyone found culpable in the mismanagement of fuel subsidy funds as “sacred cows.” The Upper Legislative chamber reiterated that they are the people who created the subsidy crisis in the first place. The Senate gave the warning yesterday through its spokesman, Eyinnaya […]
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Legislature, Senate
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Okays emergency rule, compensation for blast victims Obasanjo weeps, curses at scene of Boko Haram killings CAN accuses southern governors of insensitivity ANGER reigned in the Senate yesterday over the raging terror attacks in the country as former President Olusegun Obasanjo wept at the scene of Boko Haram killings in Adamawa State. Emotions rose at […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate, State News
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
SENATOR Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bola Tinubu, and four other senators narrowly escaped death in Ibadan on Wednesday after protesters attacked their convoy. The senators, who said they were travelling by road to Abuja, were allegedly led by police escorts, following the grounding of flights in airports […]
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Headlines, House, Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
The Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Wednesday asked the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan. Bakare, who spoke at the SNG rally at Ojota, Lagos, organised to demand the restoration of the N65 pump price of petrol, said Jonathan had committed and impeachable offence by […]
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House, Legislature, Senate
Friday, January 6th, 2012
The Nigerian Bar Association on Thursday in Abuja joined forces with organised labour and civil society groups in protesting against the removal of subsidy on fuel. The NBA also called on the National Assembly to consider impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan “where and if government persists on this suicidal course of action.” The association, […]
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Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
From IJEOMA ONUORAH, Nnewi Thursday, January 05, 2012 • Mark PHOTOS: Sun news Publishing More Stories on This Section Senate President, David Mark has denied reports that the pockets of demonstrations witnessed in parts of the country over the recent removal of fuel subsidy have made the country unstable. Speaking to journalists in Uga, Anambra […]
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House, Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
As the rage over the removal of fuel subsidy continues to gather momentum, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has called on the National Assembly to stop with immediate effect what it called the ‘reckless and suicidal mission’ of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led executive. TMG said that the executive should not be allowed to think that […]
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Headlines, House, Katsina, Legislature, Senate, State News
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Prominent lawyers yesterday expressed divergent views over the Supreme Court judgment of December 16, 2011 in which it declined jurisdiction to entertain an appeal on 10 National Assembly seats by Senator Yakubu Lado faction of the Katsina State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). The lawyers are Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), MallamYusuf Ali […]
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Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Three weeks after Senators called for the prosecution of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his alleged culpability in the sale of privatized companies, Senate suddenly kept mum on the request yesterday. Before commencement of legislative business on Tuesday, Senate went straight into a closed-door session which lasted less than 30 minutes. Daily Sun gathered that […]
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Lagos, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate, Women Politics
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
IN what amounted to a wholesale approval of the report of its ad hoc committee that probed the Federal Government’s privatisation programme since 1999 till date, the Senate on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend the removal of the Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa, from office. The Senate […]
