Sentences with phrase «8th national assembly»

He said, «The 8th National Assembly is well into the second year of its four - year tenure without any Rivers State representative in the Senate.

He said the 8th National Assembly, in providing legislative synergy, made anti-corruption one of the pillars or charters of service and incorporated it in the agenda of both the Senate and House of Representatives.

Sadly, whereas there are agreements by everyone of the need to put anti-corruption war at the top of the agenda, the 8th National Assembly has been playing the role of a Janus and in the typical character of the famed double - faced Roman myth — the 8th Assembly has one face where it speaks of the importance of anti-corruption and another face, a face and symbol of corruption.

No fewer than 2,570 aides are engaged by members of the 8th National Assembly, totaling 469, an investigation by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, has...

A group known as Forum of Like Mind Senators, has vowed to work towards a pro-masses Senate upon the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly on...

I have read the letter which erstwhile president Olusegun Obasanjo sent to members of the 8th National Assembly.

He said the 8th National Assembly has been working hard to create enabling environment that will attract investors and that the Federal Legislature would continue along that line.

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

Especially through the 8th National Assembly, Nigerians have been told that the party matters less in how officers from a particular party emerge as principal officers of the chamber especially when the position of the party runs contrary to their personal preferences.

However, based on how united we are and focused on the greater good, the passage of the PIGB goes to show Nigerians the competencies of the Senators of the 8th National Assembly.»

Similarly, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa congratulated the Senate President, Dr Olubukola Abubakar Saraki just as he lauded the remarkable contributions of the Senate President to the development of Nigeria and the legislature as Chairman of the 8th National Assembly.

Yet, this 8th National Assembly has exalted group norm over the grund norm.

But that is as true of G - 77, as it is of the self - destruct 8th National Assembly, that would fully pay for its public service crimes at the fullness of time.

He promised that the 8th National Assembly would be the first to pass the «much elusive» Petroleum Industry Bill.

Of course, Saraki could not have done all this without the help and support of his colleagues in the 8th National Assembly — however, when a man stakes his reputation on a promise that he has made, and that promise is ultimately kept, in this season of «political promises» you have to give «props» to those who keep to their word.

Now that the 2018 budget has been passed; CAMA is about to become a reality; and primary healthcare for hundreds of millions of Nigerians is finally within reach — as a medical doctor and a former banker, Saraki's vision as the President of the Senate and Chairman of the 8th National Assembly is coming alive before our very eyes as the people - centered priorities of the 8th Assembly are being actualized.

Nigerians have noted Dino's loyalty to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in the 8th National Assembly.

Not exact matches

That fairly epitomizes this 8th Senate — indeed, the two chambers of the National Assembly.

This is what we hope to achieve in the 8th assembly with the National Assembly Budget and Research Officassembly with the National Assembly Budget and Research OfficAssembly Budget and Research Office NABRO.

Saraki said the 8th Senate has scored many firsts since its inception and that it has fulfilled its mandate through the passage of several critical economic reform bills, opening of the National Assembly's budget, and its investigations that have helped in the fight against corruption.