The secret distribution of the first batch of the brand new 108 Sport Utility Vehicles to 36 senators last Thursday has started generating tension and ill-feelings among members of the upper chamber. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that each senator from the 36 states had collected the keys to the …
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Budget: Heads may roll in govt parastatals, agencies
The Presidency has begun an investigation to determine the level of complicity of heads of some government’s parastatals and agencies in the “mutilated” 2016 budget sent to President Muhammadu Buhari by the National Assembly, The PUNCH has learnt. Buhari has refused to sign the document, claiming that the federal lawmakers …
Read More »Senate defers passage of 2016 budget to Tuesday
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, …
Read More »DSS sack Marlyn Ogar’s sister and 64 other Cadet officers
The gale of sacks in the Department of State Services (DSS) continued with 65 cadet officers dismissed from training, among them a lady identified as a sibling of former Director of Information, Mrs. Marilyn Ogar. The affected cadet officers were undergoing training at the State Services Academy (SSA) in Lagos. …
Read More »A Speech Delivered By The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki At The Show Case Session Of The Nigerian Bar Association On Monday 24th August, 2015
A Speech Delivered By The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki At The Show Case Session Of The Nigerian Bar Association On Monday 24th August, 2015 PROTOCOL Your Excellencies, members of the Bar and Bench present, ladies and gentlemen. I am honoured to have been invited by the NBA to Chair …
Read More »EFCCGATE: Lamorde denies allegation,says Agency plan to audit account from 2003 till date
The embattled head of the anti-graft agency,the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Ibrahim Lamorde has denied the allegation leveled against him,saying it is mischievous and lack merit. Lamorde said all the money the agency has recovered since it’s formation in 2003 till now plus funding from the government is not …
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