FORMER Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee Senator Jubrin Barau, and outgoing Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, have all endorsed Godswill Akpabio to be the next Senate President. Three Senators-elect who had been competing for the presidency of the 10th Senate with Akpabio withdrew their candidacies and endorsed the former …
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Senator Ali NdumeA Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out the terrorism charges instituted against a former Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, in 2011. Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in his judgment on Tuesday, upheld Ndume’s no-case-submission on the grounds that the prosecution was unable to establish any prima …
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Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has written to the Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki, demanding a withdrawal of the Senate resolution summoning him to appear before it. Should the Senate fail to do so, Mr. Sagay said he would challenge the summons in court …
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CONTRARY to its earlier promise to pass the 2016 budget today, the Senate, has given Tuesday, next week,as the day it would pass the budget. The Red Chamber, which had also,earlier assured that its Committee on Appropriation would lay the various reports of committees collated, before it during yesterday’s plenary, …
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