Tag: Senators
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Breaking: 15 APC Senators decamp to PDP
Fifteen (15) All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators have decamped to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). TheNewsGuru reports Senate President Bukola Saraki made the announcement at plenary on Tuesday. The decamping Senators are Sen. Lanre Tejuoso, Sen. Shaaba Lafiagi, Sen. Barnabas Gemade, Sen. Dino Melaye, Sen. Shittu, Sen. Rafiu Ibrahim, Sen. Shitu Ubali and Sen. Isa…
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Defection saga: Buhari meets with Kwankwaso, others
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday night held a closed door meeting with a former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso. The meeting was believed to be part of efforts aimed at ensuring that some aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress do not defect from the party. Some senators were said to have attended the…
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God will curse Shehu Sani, two other Kaduna senators for rejecting World bank loan – El-Rufai
…Says electorates must reject them in 2019 Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday rained curses on the three senators representing the state for working against a World Bank loan request by the state government. The governor made the comment on Friday, five weeks after the senators — Shehu Sani (Kaduna Central), Sulieman Hukunyi…
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Why I exposed N750,000 salary, N13.5m monthly running cost of Nigerian Senators – Sani
Senator representing Kaduna Central on the floor of the senate, Shehu Sani has explained why he exposed the hidden N13.5m monthly running cost and other emoluments of Nigerian senators. He said he did it to burnish the image of senators. Recall that the Senate in response defended the pay as “nothing new”, adding that Sani…
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Pro-Buhari senators gather signatures to halt senate veto
Members of the Nigerian Senate loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari have started gathering signatures as part of efforts to frustrate moves by the upper chamber to veto the electoral bill. It was also learnt that some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors have intervened to ensure that the Senate’s decision to override Buhari’s veto power in…
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Senate confirms members get N13.5m monthly aside N750k salaries
The Senate has formally confirmed that its members receive N13.5 million monthly as running cost. Recall TheNewsGuru.com recently published that Sani, who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, revealed the amount he and his colleagues receive monthly. He confirmed that each Senator gets N13.5 million as running cost. The lawmaker noted that…
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Exposed! Nigerian senators get N13.5m every month, apart from salaries
Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna central senatorial district, has revealed he and his colleagues receive N13.5 million monthly as running cost. In an interview with TheNews, Mr. Sani said that the running cost does not include a N700,000 monthly consolidated salary and allowances which they also receive. Sani said the running cost was in addition…
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Again, Senators, Customs CG clash over ‘breach of protocol’
…as senators shun photo session with Customs leadership What was meant to be a routine oversight visit by the senators on Monday nearly turned chaos as the visiting senators and the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd.) had misunderstandings over acceptable protocols at NCS headquarters in Abuja. The Senate…
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Concerned senators donate 1,300 bags of rice to unpaid Kogi workers
Members of the Senate have donated 1,280 bags of rice as of Wednesday to Kogi State Government workers owed salaries. This was made know by lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, at a press briefing on Wednesday, where said he was spearheading donation of relief materials to Kogi workers over unpaid salaries.…
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SERAP sues FG over refusal to stop ‘double-pay’ for ministers, senators
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has sued the Federal Government over its “failure to stop former governors and now serving senators and ministers from receiving double pay and life pensions, and failure to seek recovery of over N40 billion of public funds unduly received by these public officers.” The suit number FHC/L/CS/1497/17 filed…