Tag: Dino Melaye
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After his charge, Ben Murray-Bruce welcomes estranged Senator
Embattled Senator Dino Melaye estranged in his All Progressives Congress (APC) party on Wednesday made moves to joining his former party and his colleague in the Senate, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has okayed the development. TheNewsGuru reports Melaye defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday when he resumed plenary after battling allegations he was…
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Breaking: Dino Melaye abandons APC, defects to PDP
Outspoken and presently embattled Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate has abandoned his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). TheNewsGuru reports Melaye defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday when he resumed plenary after battling allegations he was involved in certain crimes. He moved from the APC…
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Dino Melaye: Resume plenary on Wednesday even on crutches
Senator Dino Melaye has been charged to resume plenary on Wednesday even on crutches as the National Assembly has been said not to feel the same without him. Senator, representing Bayelsa East in the Senate, Ben Murray-Bruce, who made the charge with an early morning tweet via his official Twitter handle on Monday, said Melaye…
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BREAKING: Dino Melaye granted N10m bail
A High Court sitting in Lokoja has granted Senator Dino Melaye who is representing Kogi West Senatorial District, bail. Justice Nasir Ajana, who ruled on the bail application before a Lokoja High Court on Thursday (today) in Lokoja, based his ruling on the conviction as submitted by the defense counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) to…
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Dogara, House Leaders visit Melaye in National Hospital
Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Yakubu Dogara Tuesday led other leaders and members of the House to visit Senator Dino Melaye at the National Hospital Abuja. Hon. Dogara accompanied by his deputy Yusuff Lasun, Deputy Minority Leader Binta Bello and other members were received by former Speaker of the House Patricia Etteh, and…
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BREAKING: Dino Melaye arraigned, granted 100m bail
The Nigerian Police on Wednesday arraigned the Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye before a Magistrate Court, sitting in Wuse 2, Abuja. Senator Melaye was brought to court on a stretcher, under heavy security. Dino was arraigned before Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello based on a police First Information Report. The…
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Melaye asthmatic reveals Sen. Murray-Bruce
Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has said Senator Dino Melaye is asthmatic prompting him to jump off a police vehicle conveying him to Kogi state after he was allegedly gassed on several occasions. “Dino literally escaped death,” the Bayelsa East Senator said, adding “very sad to hear what transpired. Dino is asthmatic, yet while in transit, the…
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Video: Moment police captured fleeing lawmaker, Dino Melaye
Some armed policemen and Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West yesterday afternoon had a rough struggle at the Area 1 part of Abuja metropolis. The police operatives had reportedly told the embattled lawmaker that they were taking him to court in the metropolis of the nation’s capital but suddenly made a detour to move him…
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BREAKING: Police move Dino Melaye to Lokoja for trial over gun-running allegation
Operatives of the Nigeria Police, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) are reportedly moving embattled senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, Dino Melaye to Lokoja. Senator Dino Melaye, Melaye is also expected to be paraded later this evening among other hardened criminals who implicated him in the crime that necessitated his arrest. Vanguard reports that…
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Senator Dino Melaye re-arrested, moved to SARS headquarters
Reports coming in say that Sen. Dino Melaye whose residence was besieged on Monday by security agents has been arrested early Tuesday. Melaye was said to have been moved to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Headquarters, Guzape, Abuja. The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) had on Monday confirmed the arrest of Melaye at the Nnamdi Azikiwe…