Sentences with phrase «said national assembly»

Said National Assembly Speaker Nima Tshering, quoted in the article:

The National Chairman of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Chief Peter Ameh, said National Assembly did no wrong in increasing 2018 Budget from N8.61 trillion to N9.12 trillion.

Some people have said the National Assembly, especially the Senate, is fast becoming a retirement home of sorts for former state governors.

On the call to revisit clauses that were rejected during the ongoing constitution review process, Saraki said the National Assembly is ready to reconsider the clauses and that it would do so after the passage of the 2018 budget.

On his part, President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, said the National Assembly is ready to play its role to ensure that the country continues on the path of democracy and growth.

When asked what was being done to improve the relationship between the executive and the legislature, Saraki said the National Assembly had always been ready to support the Executive.

Rep. Ayo Hulayat (Osun - APC) said the National Assembly already had powers to remove the president and the vice president.

Onyeama said the National Assembly had passed several legislation and was currently debating others in its efforts to combat corruption, adding that «Nigeria now has the «Whistle Blowing Policy».

Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said the National Assembly will ensure the Petroleum Industry Bill is passed by December this year.

Saraki said the National Assembly was working hard to pass the 2017 budget this month.

With the decision been effected at Wednesday's plenary, the House said its action was in line with the provision of Section 11 (4) of the 1999 Constitution, which says the National Assembly could take over the functions of any state assembly that is enmeshed in crisis.

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Instead of correcting course to avoid further catastrophe, the Maduro regime is attempting to circumvent sanctions through the Petro digital currency — a ploy that Venezuela's democratically - elected National Assembly has denounced and Treasury has cautioned U.S. persons to avoid,» Mnuchin said in a statement.

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

In its complaint, the Ottawa - based consumer advocacy group says the blocking — approved by Quebec's National Assembly in May — is an unconstitutional threat to Internet freedom, and beyond the province's jurisdiction in any case.

«Today's report shows that we need action now on our collective agenda for closing the human rights gap,» said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

Regardless of the «he said, she said» narrative, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; a bill would require drafting, after which it would need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

John Partington, author of The Happiness Factor (New Wine Press) and national leader of the UK's Assemblies of God group of churches, says happiness (which is referred to around 30 times in the Bible) and joy (which gets 300 mentions) are separate biblical entities.

«I am gravely accepting the voices of the people and the National Assembly, and I sincerely hope that the confusion will come to a satisfactory end,» she said in a national brNational Assembly, and I sincerely hope that the confusion will come to a satisfactory end,» she said in a national brnational broadcast.

«The budget presented to the National Assembly by Mr President was exactly what the MDAs certified,» he said.

The 1970 resolution of the General Assembly said that by 1975 developed countries would give 0.7 % of their gross national income every year in official development assistance.

A senator said: «What I know is that the National Assembly leadership is very interested in having all issues relating to constitutional amendments sorted out and concluded very early in 2017.

The national assembly is open whenever the executive brings the supplementary budget regarding the project it will be honoured,» he had said at the media briefing.

«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.

While addressing State House journalists after the meeting, Saraki said they briefed Buhari on what transpired in the National Assembly when he was away on medical vacation in London.

Details of the notice of service, he said, should be placed on the notice board of the National Assembly for access by the respective defendants.

The Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East District in the National Assembly, Bassey Albert Akpan, on Friday said that he has filed a suit against the...

Although he said Buhari had already dispatched a letter to the National Assembly on the extension, he did not specify the duration of the extension.

The PDP said it was wrong for the President to also send letter to the National Assembly, extending his leave, without telling Nigerians when he would resume.

He said that the National Assembly would amend their rules to make sure that the universities were adequately domiciled in the ministry for effective monitoring by the aAssembly would amend their rules to make sure that the universities were adequately domiciled in the ministry for effective monitoring by the assemblyassembly.

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

He said also that the decision of the National Assembly to make details of its budget available to Nigerians was a welcomed development.

So you can't pay District Assemblies Common Fund, you can't pay NHIS (National Health Insurance Scheme), you can't pay GETFund (Ghana Education Trust Fund), you can't pay other salaries and things, because all your money is going into Free Senior High School,» he said.

Some persons said to be acting on behalf of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly are demanding the removal of artifacts erected at the June 3 twin - disaster site at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra in remembrance of the national disaster that hit the city last year.

The Lower Chamber of National Assembly said it has received the letter of resumption sent by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.

On when the issue of Senator Melaye came up for discussion with Buhari, Dogara said: «On the issue of Senator Dino, of course anything that happens to one of our members or any member of the National Assembly is of concern to us.

On what was the President's response on invasion, Saraki said, «Of course, he sees it as an embarrassment to the country and that there will be a proper investigation because it is something that is not just about the National Assembly, it is about the country.»

Saraki said the President invited them over to discuss with them his recent visit to the United States of America, the passage of the 2018 Budget, and the invasion of the National Assembly by thugs, but they used the opportunity to complain to him their reservations about the non-appearance of the IGP, despite repeated invitations.

Let it also be said that some people are not giving maximum cooperation to the national assembly for us to do our job.

He said «following the receipt of full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

The AGF was said to have been thoroughly embarrassed with the corruption charges because he had already informed the National Assembly that Umar had no corruption case to answer based on the two reports of EFCC to the Federal Government.

The constitution says in case of ill health etc, the President is required to transmit to the National Assembly a letter which President Muhammadu Buhari has done.

He said, «The party notes that the bill had languished in the various chambers of the National Assembly for about 12 years, but it took the purposeful and dedicated APC - led Senate to pass the bill.

Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd, MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, said: «This amendment, if passed, would enforce a simple change - that the assembly be officially named the National Parliament of Wales.

Leighton Andrews has wrritten to Carwyn Jones saying he has misled the National Assembly «several times» since the death of Carl Sargeant.

The President, who spoke in Port Harcourt while declaring open the 9th General Assembly of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, said he was saddened by the killings across the country.

The report said, «The Federal Inland Revenue Service is one of the Federal Government Agencies established in 2007 by an Act of the National Assembly.

Shettima said during the inauguration of the projects that the people of Borno State would ever remain grateful to Tinubu for freeing them from the hands of a tyrant, who made frantic efforts to hijack the APC's machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly elections.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said the 2017 Appropriation Bill that he will present to the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday would take Nigeria out of its current economic woods.

«I asked him to resign as a member of the Assembly,» Silver said last night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

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...