Sentences with phrase «national assembly lawmakers»

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday described as baseless the allegation that National Assembly lawmakers have received monetary inducement from...

Stakeholders in the party such as the National Assembly lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district, senator Dino Melaye, former speaker Kogi House of Assembly representing Lokoja 1, Umar Imam Ahmed, current Kogi Apc chairman Hardy Ametuo were all absent at the meeting.

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Although the issues of transparency in the salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly may seem like sensitive issues, they are exactly the kind of issues the Senate and House Representatives need to urgently address and clarify if Nigerians are ever to trust their lawmakers.»

Buhari had on Monday written to the National Assembly, informing the lawmakers of his resumption.

Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed, APC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, Sen Shaaba Lafiaji and lawmakers representing the state at the National Assembly and state House of Assembly were present at the congress held at the Banquet Hall.

PARIS — Men who wolf - whistle or sexually harass women on French streets face fines of up to $ 885 after lawmakers in the National Assembly approved tougher legislation to combat sexual...

The Senate on Tuesday expressed its backing for the embattled lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, over the ongoing move by his constituents to recall him from the National Assembly.

President Muhammadu Buhari, had at the joint session of the National Assembly, presented a proposed budget of eight trillion, six hundred and twelve billion, two hundred and thirty - six million, nine hundred and fifty - three thousand, two hundred and fourteen naira (N8, 612, 236,953,214) to the lawmakers

The lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial District in the National Assembly said he was not surprise that the Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, will...

The allegation that policemen drafted to the House of Assembly complex to forestall the foretold violence stood akimbo while thugs laid siege on the legislature, brutalized Hon Friday Sani Makama, a duly elected lawmaker, and disrupted the activities of the Assembly should not be allowed to go unpunished.The National Assembly should also investigate the criminal act and take appropriate steps that would prevent the re-occurrence of such intimidating act in future.»

Groups and some lawmakers in the National Assembly on Friday berated the Independent National Electoral Commission under the leadership of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

ABUJA — THE House of Representatives, yesterday, described former President Olusegun Obasanjo's letters to the leadership of the National Assembly, accusing the lawmakers of greed, graft and insensitivity to the declining state of the country's economy, as misdirected, saying they would not be distracted from performing their constitutional duties.

Fashola and the lawmakers have traded accusations since late June when he accused the National Assembly of unilaterally slashing budgetary allocation for key projects such as the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway and the 2nd Niger Bridge.

What are your views on restructuring Nigeria I am talking personally now; I don't see why the National Assembly and other lawmakers in state assembly should be fuAssembly and other lawmakers in state assembly should be fuassembly should be full time.

Senator Ojudu was one of the active lawmakers in the 7th National Assembly but decided not to seek re-election in 2015.

The budget presented in December 2016 before the two chambers of the national assembly with an estimate of N7.28 trillion had been raised to N7.44 trillion by the federal lawmakers.

Three candidates couldn't make through the National Assembly hearing process under the current president for the last four years because of (1) his speculative investment in real estate using secret information, (2) earning too much money when working as a lawyer, and (3) his historical viewpoint that lawmakers and general public don't endorse or agree to.

As confirmation requires a majority vote in the National Assembly, usually former or current lawmakers or ministers are nominated.

Also condemning the attacks, a former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, who is now a lawmaker representing Plateau North in the National Assembly, said he was sad to hear about the «incessant violent killings going on in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, allegedly perpetrated by herdsmen who have become the usual suspects in this kind of coordinated attacks in the state and others in the Middle - Belt.»

The Apex Court led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta also ordered Danladi to refund all pay earned as a lawmaker in the National Assembly position within 90 days.

Controversial lawmaker, representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, on Tuesday, appeared at the National Assembly Complex putting on academic gown of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

The lawmakers who were left with no option had to trek to the National Assembly gate where they were equally impeded from gaining entrance.

He said the lawmakers appreciated Buhari's invitation and meeting with the National Assembly's leadership on the matter.

The lawmakers said their resolutions, which were later conveyed to President Muhammadu Buhari by the leadership of the National Assembly, were «wake - up call» to the President and the Federal Government who «must» take urgent action on the crisis before it escalates.

The group described the present crop of South - West lawmakers at the National Assembly as «the worst the Yoruba nation has ever put forward.»

The lawmaker representing Abia South senatorial district at the National Assembly, Enyinnaya Abaribe, a critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that he is not afraid...

The lawmaker, representing Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu, on Thursday, condemned Fayose for inaugurating his presidential campaign ahead of the 2019 elections.

Ahead of Saturday's recall process of the lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, the Kogi State Police command has vowed to deal...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday wrote to the two Chambers of the National Assembly to intimate the federal lawmakers that he has resumed work after spending 104 days outside the country.

On resumption, he had transmitted a letter to the National Assembly, informing the lawmakers of his return.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, one of the most influential Democrats in his home borough of the Bronx and across New York State, today backed Assemblyman Michael Blake's bid for vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee — the latest sign formerly chilly County machine is warming to the second - term lawmaker's attempt at national inNational Committee — the latest sign formerly chilly County machine is warming to the second - term lawmaker's attempt at national innational influence.

The senator further said the lawmakers reminded the NWC that the National Assembly caucus of the party was critical to the existence and well being of the APC as the members were the ones who were funding the party.

The federal lawmakers had also called on Buhari to find time to address a joint session of the National Assembly on what are being done to tackle recession.

It is a sign of the times, and a tragedy that the most popular Senator in the Nigerian National Assembly at this moment is not the person who has moved the most impactful motion, not a lawmaker who has proposed a thought - provoking bill, and certainly not any Senator who has given any impressive speech debating a matter of national impNational Assembly at this moment is not the person who has moved the most impactful motion, not a lawmaker who has proposed a thought - provoking bill, and certainly not any Senator who has given any impressive speech debating a matter of national impnational importance.

From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial officers.

The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has been remanded in police detention till June 11, 2018.

The lawmaker representing Nasarawa West in the National Assembly, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has accused Bukola Saraki, the Senate president, of using his office to promote his...

The lawmakers while reacting to the suit against the Senate President said Saraki had provided the needed leadership for the upper chamber of the National Assembly to define an efficient agenda that would make the legislature represent the interest of the people.

The lawmaker representing Nasarawa West in the National Assembly, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has accused Bukola Saraki, the Senate president, of using his office to promote his selfish interests.

The lawmaker representing Rivers South - East district in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, has said there was no ward congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

It is clear that with the roadblock mounted by the National Assembly, the fight against corruption is dead on arrival and a critical legislation that would strengthen the anti-corruption organs are crippled by the lawmakers and left unattended to.

On the ongoing faceoff between the National Assembly and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, where the minister complained about the reduction in the amount proposed in the budget for key projects, Ngige argued that the lawmakers were wrong.

News Express recalled that several Nigerian lawmakers have lambasted the President over the payment of $ 496mn for the purchase of Tucano jets without the approval of the National Assembly and even threatened him with impeachment over the issue.

He, however, took a swipe at the lawmakers for failing to address national issues such as passing the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly in November 2017, among severalnational issues such as passing the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly in November 2017, among severalNational Assembly in November 2017, among several others.

It asked the lawmakers to concentrate on their primary constitutional responsibilities of lawmaking and discharging of their legislative mandates to their constituents at the National Assembly

The leadership of the National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum (NASSLAF) has been embroiled in crisis between Darlington Udeh, an aide of Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate president, and Samuel, the younger brother of Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west Senatorial District

A principal officer of the Senate, however, told our correspondents that the upper chamber of the National Assembly had decided not to comment on the scandal until lawmakers resumed from their summer recess.

Dominguez, deputy director of policy for the Rhode Island Senate, says the research stemmed from the work in education policy she has been doing with state lawmakers at the Rhode Island General Assembly and through the National Conference of State Legislatures.