Sentences with phrase «national assembly representatives»

On December 13, 2010, National Assembly representatives from the Fidesz — Christian Democratic People's Party governing alliance passed the Pension Reform and Debt Reduction Fund Law that permanently transferred mandatory private pension - fund contributions to the state unless employees indicated by January 31, 2011 that they wished to continue making payments to the funds.

On December 13, 2010, National Assembly representatives from the Fidesz - Christian Democratic People's Party governing alliance approved the government - sponsored legislation compelling employees in Hungary to retain either their private pension - fund savings or their eligibility for state pensions.

Not exact matches

On June 25th, the UN Representative in Vietnam congratulated the Government and the National Assembly for amending the Law on Advertising and for extending maternity leave.

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.»

Ten 10 other Honourable Ministers, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as well as representatives of the National Assembly, Lagos and Kano States and the private sector are also members.

The proposed amendment to section 308 of the Nigerian constitution to allow the National Assembly leadership enjoy immunity while in office caused a stir at the House of representatives on Tuesday.

Until the leadership of the House of Representatives drops the bill and strives to improve public trust in the National Assembly, their oft - repeated commitment to stand up for the country and the citizens will continue to echo a broken promise.

«As representatives of the true beneficiaries of the Act, as it presently stands, there is need to put an urgent end to its further coordination by the National Assembly, which also has the noble tradition that once a matter is before the court, all activities on the matter will be suspended,» he said.

Through daily meetings, all the inhabitants of the local «tents neighborhoods» vote on policy and elect their representatives for the higher national assembly.

Back to the National Assembly where a wrong type of economic conversation was going on in relation to the beleaguered MTN Nigeria as some members of the House of Representatives decided that in addition to their considerable legislative duties, they desired to hijack the duties of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), those of the telecommunications regulators - NCC and the Ministry of Communications and indeed the judicial functions of our courts as well!!!

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a ranational election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a raNational Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

The two Presidential Aides for National Assembly Matters for the Senate and House of Representatives, Sen. Ita Enang and Kawu Sumaila, respectively, were earlier sighted going into the president's office.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the two leaders of the National Assembly, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

The last that was heard about defection at the National Assembly was when a former member of the House of Representatives, Uche Ekwunife, who later represented Anambra Central at the Senate, before her election was annulled by the Appeal Court defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

The party had polled consistently in the first four elections to the National Assembly, returning six representatives in the first three elections and five in the 2011 Election, thereby establishing itself as the fourth party in Wales behind Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, but fell to just one seat in 2016.

«The reading relay will be led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the Senate President and representatives from the Senate and National Assembly as well as governors.

The parts of the Constitution cited by Sagay empowers the Senate or House of Representatives to direct investigation into the conduct of affairs of «any person, authority, ministry or government department charged, or intended to be charged, with the duty of or responsibility for executing or administering laws enacted by the National Assembly.»

Saraki last Wednesday led a delegation of the National Assembly, comprising the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan (APC, Yobe) to visit Buhari.

The appeal court added that since the House of Representatives or any chamber of the National Assembly lacked the power to conduct criminal investigation, its report «can not be used to prevent or shield any of the petroleum marketer and supply companies from being investigated by competent investigative authority upon a criminal complaint that it fraudulently received billions of naira as imported petroleum subsidy payments when it did not import or market the petroleum in Nigeria.»

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday stated that some persons are «intimidating» the nation's judiciary to «gag» the National Assembly...

Barring any further hitches, the Joint Committee of House of Representatives investigating the Jon - Ode led Presidential Arms Probe Panel will commence the public hearing on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.

I am happy that the National Assembly particularly the House of Representatives have agreed to consider the report which will solve a lot of economic and political problems and that is why I am demanding for the restructuring of the country.

Delaware County representatives to the New York State Democratic Committee are elected according to Assembly District, and then that body elects members to the Democratic National Committee.

«So the practice by Tinubu to always want to plant people everywhere may not work every time as it has shown in Ondo and the National Assembly, where his candidates for the positions of Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, lost out to Dr. Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara.

[1] In theory, elections select representatives from the country's six regions for the National Assembly.

His words, «The attention of the Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been drawn to a purported investigative report by an online medium, which claimed that he and other members of the Committees on Constitution Review of the seventh National Assembly, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, «pocketed» N8 billion in «failed» constitution amendment exercise.

The labour leader urged the National Assembly to avoid what he described as «predictable wasteful litigations» which would aggravate political tensions,» and make electoral process an art of war instead of a process of electing accountable representatives of the people.»

Senator Ita Enang in what was not disclosed when and how reportedly collected the budget from the 10 - man committee of the National Assembly, headed by the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun.

The lower chamber of National assembly, House of Representatives, has condemned the activities of economic saboteurs destroying oil producing communities in the Niger Delta.

Among those seen were Chief Whip of the House of Representatives Alhassan Ado Doguwa; Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on National Assembly Kawu Sumaila; Secretary to the Kano State Government Usman Alhaji; Commissioner for Local Government Murtala Sule - Garo; Commissioner of Environment Ali Bukar Makoda and the state APC chairman, Abdullahi Abbas.

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.

Senate President Bukola Saraki and his House of Representatives counterpart, Hon. Yakubu Dogara alongside principal officers of the National Assembly penultimate week met with President Muhammadu Buhari where they disclosed after the meeting that the budget will be passed in less than a week.

Once they have made that pronouncement, never would the executive under section 5 headed by Mr. President which execute laws made by the National Assembly under section 5 of the constitution nor the legislature which is bicamerally controlled by the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, none of them has the power to tell a court of law that the bail you have granted we are not obeying it because of that hallowed doctrine of the separation of powers.

The National Assembly Management has N14.9 billion with the Senate taking N31.3 billion and the House of Representatives N49 billion, while the National Assembly Service Commission gets N2.4 billion.

He also promised the leaders, comprising governors and ministers from the region, President of Ohaneze, Chief Nnia Nwodo and representatives from the National Assembly, that he would visit states in the zone soon.

In apparent disapproval of claims that the 2016 Budget proposal is missing from the National Assembly, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Mr. Mohammed Sani - Omolori, on Wednesday morning displayed the documents during plenary.

«Nigerians are not looking at that, we are looking at the National Assembly as 360 members of House of Representatives and 109 Senators; calculate it with the money that has been budgeted without looking at other aspects.

Members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari committed an «impeachable offence» by authorising the purchase of $ 462m jets for the military without appropriation by the National Assembly.

But when it comes to certain elements within the political spectrum in Nigeria... Look at it this way, will it surprise you that a representative of Lagos who calls himself a Lagosian representing the state in the National Assembly went to Kogi State to vie for the governorship?

INEC had declared Sekibo and the two other members of the House of Representatives winner of the March 28, 2015 National Assembly election.

An erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na» abba, has revealed how much former President, Olusegun Obasanjo paid each of the National Assembly members...

They have their representatives in the National Assembly, but they have all gone mute.

«In Lagos state, the home of the national leader of the APC, the PDP won six House of Representatives seats and nine state assembly seats.

Today, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, announced that the National Assembly will constitute a joint committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to investigate Wednesday's invasion.

The revered human rights group further demand the expeditious conclusion of investigations into the allegations of Hon. Abdulmumini Jubrin against the entire National Assembly; both the House of Representatives and Senate.

The former new PDP included five sitting Governors of Sokoto, Kano, Kwara, Adamawa and Rivers States and former Governors of Kebbi, Gombe, Osun, former Vice President of Nigeria, former acting National Chairman of PDP, sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives, many serving members of the National Assembly and many renowned politicians and PDP Elders.

While PDP had taken all of sixteen years before Dr Ekwueme's «baby» (as he called the PDP in 1998) died of swallowing its own lies, the APC developed cracks right from the day the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were elected by members of the National Assembly.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Mr. Abdulrahman Kawu, confirmed that the office was expecting the budget today.

While citing Mallam Nasir El - Rufai vs The House of Representatives, National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria & Ors.

Those expected to be in attendance include governors of All Progressives Congress, APC, as well as members of the National Assembly led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara.