Tag: Senators
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Explosion: We don't want to be known for disasters, Ijegun monarch tells visiting Senate committee
The Onijegun of Ijegun, Oba Nureini Olomitutu, said on Friday that activities of vandals and other criminals were threatening lives in the area. He spoke when members of the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Pipeline Vandalism visited his palace in Lagos. The committee, led by Sen. Ibrahim Gobir, was in the Ijegun area on an investigative…
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ICPC vows to probe Senators, Reps who fail to execute constituency projects
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Tuesday said senators and members of the House of Representatives who failed to execute constituency projects will be prosecuted. Also, all companies engaged for the failed or abandoned projects will face trial. But the commission, however, opposed to plea bargain by corrupt elements because the…
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Buhari hosts APC Governors, Senators-elect to a dinner
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday night hosted State Governors and Senators-elect of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to a dinner at the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that those in attendance included the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiohmole; Secretary to the Government…
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INEC presents certificates of return to 102 elected senators, 338 Reps today
Winners in the February 23 National Assembly elections are to get certificates of return (CoR) today by at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 102 senators-elect will get their certificates by 10am and 338 would-be House of Representatives members will be issued theirs by 2pm. Going by…
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Meet returning, new senators for 9th Senate
…As APC clinches majority with 61, PDP 33, YPP 1 •11 seats yet to be declared •Three inconclusive The All Progressives Congress (APC) is on its way to dorminate the incoming Ninth Senate judging by the list of winners announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Already, the APC has 61 seats.…
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9th Senate: Crowning former governors who are cabals as South-East Senators
From Jonas Ike, Abuja The coast is now very clear for the former governors who are cabals in the South-East region of Nigeria to be Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. These are political gladiators and titans who have been angling for a place in the Nigerian Senate for a very long time to…
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2019: Senate spokesman, one other serving APC senator lose primaries in Niger
…as David Umaru Cries Foul Two of the serving Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger state, Barrister David Umaru and Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi have lost in the senatorial primaries held across the state on Tuesday. Two time serving Senator David Umaru who is the Chairman, Senate committee on Judiciary and Human…
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Akpabio: Buhari using EFCC to intimidate PDP senators to defect, impeach Saraki – R-APC
…accuses FG of wooing senators with N50m The Reformed All Progressives congress (R-APC) has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to intimidating senators (especially those with pending cases) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to defect to APC. The group also accused…
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Defections: 2 senators backtrack, meet Buhari in Aso Rock
Senators Lanre Tejuoso (Ogun Central) and Adesoji Akanbi from Oyo South who were reported to have joined the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday are back in the All Progressives Congress (APC). They were among the senators who met President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night at the Villa in Abuja, in a show of solidarity. Tejuoso…
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Defections: Saraki absent as Buhari meets ‘loyal’ APC senators in Aso Rock [Full List]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night met with senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The meeting held inside the conference room in the office of the wife of the president at the State House villa, Abuja. The meeting is coming a day after 15 senators dumped the party for the opposition. About 42…