The Senate through its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, has threatened to issue warrant of arrest against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Sole Administrator of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Mr Effiong Okon Akwa over non – payment of N2.2billion Contract .The duo according to the Chairman of the committee Senator Ayo Akinyelure (PDP Ondo Central), must appear before the Committee unfailingly on April 12, 2022 by 2pm.Failure to comply, he said the senate may have no option but to issue a warrant of arrest against the duo having failed to honour…
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From Naseer Mijinyawa, Minna.8 The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Niger State command has warned vandals of national facilities to relocate in their own interests from Niger State or be prepared to face the full wrath of the command. The state commandant of the Corps, Mr. Garba Aliyu Bature who spoke in an interview with the National Update in Minna, said his men are prepared to chase them out of Niger State unless they turn a new leaf.The commandant assured that his men and officers will continue to make the state unconducive for vandals and their collaborators.He solicited…
***Lawan sets up ad-hoc committee for the investigation The senate on Wednesday setup an ad-hoc committee to carry out full scale investigation into incessant hike in tariffs by Pay-Tv providers. The committee was mandated to carry out a comprehensive investigation by inviting the providers to come and explain reasons for the incessant hike. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, constituted the seven-man ad-hoc committee for the purpose The lawmakers also directed all pay-tv service providers in Nigeria too immediatelày review their bouquet prices downwards in tandem with the prevailing reality of the economic situation in the country. They also resolved…
***As APC group saves 2bn for sponsorship Former governor of Rivers state and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Ameachi, has gotten a 21-day ultimatum to officially declare for presidency, else he will be forced to do so. A pro-All Progressives Congress (APC) on the aiges of Bridge Builders Initiative For Green Nigeria (BBIGN), gave the ultimatum during a solidarity march in support of APC and Ameachi, Wednesday at the APC national secretariat, Abuja. National President of BBIGN, Emmanuel Orgwu, said any person who will find Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and convince him to declare his interest to run for the 2023…
By Janet samuel Consensus is more of the Nation’s Democratic tradition, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity, Honourable Benjamin Kalu has indicated. Kalu spoke with newsmen in Abuja on the consensus adopted by the party during its convention on March 26, 2022 convention. Kalu who is representing Bende Federal Constituency in Abia State in the National Assembly, Said there are option of direct, indirect and consensus as methods of choosing those who will lead us. He stated that the option of consensus has been used before and it was only an agreement option to harmonize the choices…
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq has sent condolence message to families and victims of the Kaduna bound train which was attacked on Monday by unknown gunmen at Dutse Forest, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The special adviser to the minister on media Nneka Ikem Anibeze who quoted the minister to have directed immediate deployment of the NEMA Northwest Zonal Office team to visit the scene of the attack as well as the victims described the incident as horrific. “My heartfelt condolences to the families of those who lost their lives…
***Renew call for state police Lawmakers at plenary on Tuesday expressed anger over the new wave of insecurity that has shifted from the usual highway attacks to Airport and railway with privileged Nigerians as targets. They blamed the new dimensions on failure of leadership on the part of the government at national level and in Kaduna State that has now become the new theater.They spoke against the backdrop of the attack on the Kaduna train bound conveying about 970 passengers in which more than 50 were killed, while others sustained various degrees of injuries, as some were also abducted In…
Sources close to the South East Mandate, a body recently put together to pursue and actualise the “Igbo Presidency” project, has berated Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and his Abia State colleague, Okezie Ikpeazu respectively, over Sunday’s endorsement of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, as the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) in the 2023 elections.This is against the national advocacy for a specifically South East/Igbo President. The group lamented that while most Igbos are campaigning for the South East geopolitical zone be given a chance to produce the next President of Nigeria in 2023, the two…
From Umar Egbunu, Lafia Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Mr Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, has described the success of the All Progressives Congress (APC) convention that ushered in Sen. Abdullahi Adamu as National Chairman and other National Working Committee (NWC) members of the party through consensus as a sign of victory of the party come 2023 and beyond. The Speaker stated this while speaking with journalists in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital. He said that the emergence of Sen. Adamu and other NWC members of the party through consensus has shown the peace and unity among stakeholders and members of…
The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Sen. Tolu Odebiyi has congratulated the former Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the occasion of his 70th birthday The senator in a statement by his media aide Olubunmi Omo’ogundescribed the former Lagos State Governor as a Nationalist.”On behalf of my wife, Folashade, the entire family of Late Senator J.A.O. Odebiyi and my constituents in Ogun West Senatorial District, we are happy to join and rejoice with your wonderful family, admirers, friends, associates, well-meaning party members and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC),…