Tag: Suspension
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Suspension of elected representatives and Senate’s Mace saga, By Carl Umegboro
By Carl Umegboro The legislature has over the years played politics to the extreme by repeatedly, egotistically misappropriating its gavel in contradiction of democratic norm, and severally, conceitedly axed opposing colleagues that were elected by the people in their respective senatorial districts and constituencies for their counterparts at the House of Representatives or Assembly. By…
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Sex-for-mark Scandal: ASUU hails suspension of indicted lecturer
The Obafemi Awolowo University branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commended the management of the institution for the indefinite suspension of Richard Akindele, the professor at the centre of the leaked sex-for-mark audio scandal. Reacting to a statement from the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Eyitope Ogunbodede, on Thursday, the union’s chairman,…
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Omo-Agege’s suspension: APC chieftain wants AGF to intervene
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Prince Christopher Agaga has taken the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Alhaji Abubakar Malami to task over the violations of the country’s constitution that led to the suspension of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from the Senate. Agaga in a statement made…
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Court rejects Omo-Agege’s bid to stop suspension from Senate
The Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an ex parte application filed by the lawmaker representing Delta Central in the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to stop his suspension by the Senate. He had, on April 3, filed the ex-parte application before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, asking the court to order that “all further proceedings against…
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Confusion trails lifting of Oando technical suspension
Investors in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) were thrown into confusion as hours after the six-month old technical suspension the Exchange placed on the shares of Oando Plc was lifted and later reversed. The NSE had disclosed in a notice last Tuesday, that the decision to lift the technical suspension was based on a request…
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JUST IN: Reps lift suspension on Jibrin
The House of Representatives on Tuesday lifted the suspension placed on the former Chairman of its Committee on Appropriation, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin (Kano-APC). This followed a letter of apology sent to the House by Jibrin, which was presented by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, at plenary. Recall that the lawmaker was suspended in 2016 for…
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Boko Haram: Humanitarian operations in Rann still suspended – UN
The United Nations on Saturday said that suspension of humanitarian operations in Rann, Borno, on March 2 was still in force. The suspension was announced as the UN withdrew its workers from the community after a March 1 attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists who killed eight persons, including three aid workers, and abducted a…
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Jibrin’s suspension: S’Court orders lawyer to pay N2m for filing frivolous appeal
The Supreme Court has fined a lawyer, Mr. Tolu Babaleye, N2m for filing a frivolous appeal to delay the hearing of a suit filed by a former Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, to challenge his suspension for 180 legislative days since September 28, 2016. A five-man panel of the…
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Adeosun suspended me because I refused to stop Oando audit – Gwarzo
Suspended Director General of Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Munir Gwarzo has said the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun because he (Gwarzo) refused to stop the audit of Oando. The suspended DG revealed this at an investigative hearing organised by the House Committee on Capital Market and Institutions on Tuesday at the National Assembly.…
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Court strikes out Jibrin’s suit to compel House of Reps to lift suspension
The quest by the embattled lawmaker, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin, to return to the House of Representatives after been suspended by his colleagues for going against the rules of the parliament has suffered a great set back as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned a suit instituted by him to push for his…