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Boko Haram: Senator Ndume knows fate on bail Monday

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Legislature, Senate Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Senator Ali Muhammed Ndume currently standing trial over his alleged links with Boko Haram on Thursday returned to an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court where he is facing felony charges with an application seeking to be admitted to bail pending his trial. The court, however, reserved ruling on the application till Monday, December 5, 2011. Senator […]

Same sex marriage ban irrevocable-Mark

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Senate President David Mark yesterday told German Ambassador to Nigeria, Dorothee Janetzke –Wenzel in Abuja that the ban on same sex marriage in Nigeria was irrevocable. Senate passed a new law banning same sex marriage in Nigeria yesterday, stipulating a 14-year jail term for offenders. Gay clubs were also banned from operating in the country. […]

Senators want Obasanjo punished for BPE failures

Posted by admin General Politics, Legislature, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Senate Thursday, December 1st, 2011

OPPOSITION lawmakers in the Senate on Wednesday asked for sanction to imposed on ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo for lapses in the Federal Government’s privatisation exercise in the past 12 years. The Senators argued that sanctions recommended by the senate ad hoc committee that probed the exercise for the former heads of the Bureau […]

Exploitation of workers: Senate summons immigration, Julius Berger, others

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Worried by the alleged indiscriminate use of expatriate quota and exploitation of Nigerian workers, the Senate, on Wednesday, summoned the construction giant, Julius Berger, Chinese firms and others. The invitees, who would appear next week, will also explain how they have been exploring Nigeria’s natural resources without paying compensation. The chairman, Senate Committee on Federal […]

Senate moves to end gas flaring before 2015

Posted by admin Legislature, Oil Politics, Senate Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

PLANS are underway by the Senate to stamp out the scourge of gas flaring in the Niger Delta before the year 2015. Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, Bukola Saraki, stated this yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State. According to him, relevant bills to fast-track the process and meeting this target would soon be […]

Senators push for state police

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Thursday, November 24th, 2011

BY HENRY UMORU, INALEGWU SHAIBU Abuja – Senators have asked the Federal Government to decentralise the Nigeria Police to include community and state police. The senators expressed their views during the second reading of a bill for an Act to establish and regulate the Nigeria Police Service, which also proposes to remove the prosecuting powers […]

BPE Report: Senate orders sack of DG

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Thursday, November 24th, 2011

HAVING completed its investigation, the ad hoc committee on privatisation and commercialisation set up by the Senate to investigate the privatisation and commercialisation activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) from 1999 to date submitted its report on Wednesday and recommended the sack of the Director-General of BPE, Ms Bola Onagoruwa. The setting up […]

Privatisation: Senate indicts BPE, El-Rufai, Chigbue, Onagoruwa

Posted by admin General Politics, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Privatisation has indicted former Directors-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises for their roles in the sale of Federal Government enterprises from 1999 to date. The former BPE bosses, namely Dr. Julius Bala, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Mrs. Irene Chigbue were recommended for reprimand by the committee for seeking […]

Court summons N’Assembly Clerks over N37bn loan scam

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has summoned the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Abubakar Salisu Maikasuwa and his House of Representatives counterpart, Mr Mohammed Ataba Sani-Omolori to appear before it today over the ongoing trial of the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Usman Bayero Nafada […]

Ndume’s trial: We won’t interfere –Senate (You better not)

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Less than 24 hours after Ali Sanda Umar Konduga implicated Senator Ali Ndume as one of the sponsors of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Senate has distanced itself from his travails. Ndume represents Borno South Senatorial District and chairs the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Committee. In his first term in the Senate after two terms […]