Sentences with phrase «hallowed chamber»

This had also generated ripples in the past few weeks after the issue was deliberated upon at hallowed chamber of the House of Assembly.

It is from such free - for - all decadence that an Ekweremadu would practically call for military rule, in the very hallowed chambers of the Senate!

The outspoken senator soon spoke about how the hallowed chamber should invite the Attorney General of the federation so it can question and humiliate him for charging the Senate leadership with forgery in court.

He described the candidate as once a ranking member of the upper chamber, saying he will not occupy the back bench in the hallowed chamber if elected.

«Equally, it is very distasteful and uncharitable for any senator to stand on the floor of the hallowed chamber and ask his colleague to violate the Constitution by cross-carpeting from his own party to join the ruling party.

He said the house was expecting the committee's report so as to serve as a guide when discussing the matter on the floor of the hallow chamber.

A Former governor of Benue State who is also a serving Senator at the hallowed chamber of the House of Assembly, George Akume on Saturday buried his elder brother, Gabriel Indyer Akume, Ter Mbakpo 1, in a multi-million naira palacial vault garden in his hometown, Terka in Benue State.

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) says the the hallowed chamber of the National Assembly is frustrating the change agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led government.

Adeyeye made this known while expressing his position on what he termed the `' general principles and merits of the estimates of the 2016 Appropriation Bill brought by President Muhammadu Buhari before the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly.»

Oduah, a first timer at the hallowed chamber was a former minister of aviation who was eased out of office having gotten enmeshed in the controversy over the purchase of two bullet - proof BMW cars.

The judgement vacated the suspension slammed on him by the hallowed chamber, ruling that Senate can not suspend member for more than 14 days

«Information reaching us is that on Thursday, 13th November, the Enugu State Assembly that was on recess, till 4th December; hurriedly went into secret sitting at the hallowed chambers, barricaded the press and in hushed tunes approved N11 billion loan for Governor Chime.

The group said though it is within the rules and powers of the House to regulate its internal affairs and sanction an erring member, but the imbroglio surrounding the House of Representatives is a National embarrassment that transcends an internal affairs of the hallowed chambers.

Which is good, because the integrity of that hallowed chamber can't be tainted by the presence of violent sociopaths.

After being denied entry into the hallowed chamber last week, Burris was warmly welcomed Thursday by Senate colleagues, including Majority Leader Harry Reid.

«The «consortium of presidents» around you, as Nigerians now derisively refer to those «powerful» and larger - than - life appointees of yours who take delight in riding roughshod over the polity and desecrating the hallowed chambers of justice, must be cut to size.

«On this note, we the Concern Group condemned in very strong term Dino Melaye's assault on Senator Oluremi Tinubu and therefore call on him to tender unreserved public apology to the hallowed chamber of the Senate and more importantly to the person of Senator Oluremi Tinubu and the entire Nigerians which he has brought into great disrepute.»

While delivering a protest letter to the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at the Lagos House in Alausa for onward transmission to President Muhammadu Buhari, leader of the group, Mrs. Anike Adekanye said with the development, Melaye had exhibited convincingly that he lacked the «poise, panache, fitness and minimum character to occupy a seat among sane, revered and distinguished men and women in the hallowed chamber of the sacrosanct Nigeria Senate.»

Few minutes later, a prototype of the mace was brought into the hallowed chamber and the senate resumed sitting.