Tag: Yakubu Dogara
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Impeachment: Saraki only postponing his doomsday – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has uncovered sinister plans by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to attack its Senators, even as the party says Senate President Bukola Saraki and his cohorts are only postponing doomsday by not reconvening. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports APC Ag. National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena, in a statement on…
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INEC budget: Why no date for NASS to reconvene – Saraki, Dogara
The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, said on Tuesday that no date had been fixed for the two chambers to reconvene to consider the INEC 2019 elections budget request forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was contained in a statement by Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, Special Adviser…
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Dogara congratulates Kaita, Gumau
Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has congratulated Reps. Lawal Yahaya Gumau and Ahmed Babba Kaita on their victories in Saturday’s bye-elections in Bauchi and Katsina states. Dogara, in a statement he signed on Monday, said he was confident of their ability to provide quality representation of their constituents. “On behalf of the entire leadership…
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FG treating 2019 elections as an emergency – Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has said that the legislature is committed to free, fair and credible elections in 2019, and decried that the federal government is treating the 2019 elections as an emergency. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Dogara stated this during a meeting of the leadership of both chambers of the National…
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Mahmood briefs NASS leadership on INEC’s budget for 2019 general elections
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday briefed Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara at a Special Hearing on INEC’s budget for the 2019 general elections. TheNewsGuru reports Senate President Saraki had earlier in his opening remarks at a World Press Conference he addressed…
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Saraki, Dogara postpone leadership meeting
Following invasion of the National Assembly complex by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara have condemned the action of the security agents and described it as another attempt to subevert the nation’s democracy. TheNewsGuru reports the NASS leaders alleged that legislators…
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Speaker Dogara: Nigeria’s industrialisation unattainable without…
Speaker Yakubu Dogara has, again, called on the executive to give priority to steel development in Nigeria, saying it is the bedrock of the development of the country. He argued that the country keeps losing revenue through importation of steel, even more that the government is focused on implementing projects that are dependent on steel…
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We must unravel mystery surrounding recovered loots, assets – Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said that Parliament will not continue to look on as confusion trails the recovery of looted funds and assets. This, he said, at a public hearing by the House Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Finance on the need to ascertain the status of recovered…
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Rule of law, due process as hallmark of democracy – Speaker Dogara
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has emphasised on the need to improve on the crop of lawyers produced by the universities in order to improve on the nation’s rule of law and due process. Speaking when he received a delegation of Law Students Representatives Council from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,…
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Dogara tasks security agencies on interagency cooperation
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has called on security agencies to work together seamlessly in order to overcome security challenges in the country. He said this in Monguno, Borno state at the Mini Trade Fair and Military Equipment Exhibition organized by the Nigerian Army as part of the week-long Nigerian Army…