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National Assembly (NASS) Clerk, Magaji Tambuwal, has told a Federal High Court, Abuja that Sen. Adamu Bulkachuwa enjoyed immunity from any form of proceedings in respect of words spoken or written at the plenary session. Tambuwal told Justice Inyang Ekwo in a counter affidavit filed in response to Bulkachuwa’s suit. The News Agency of Nigeria […]
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The President, Bola Tinubu, has written to the National Assembly seeking an amendment to the 2022 supplementary appropriation Act. The amendment, he said, was to allow the Federal Government to source N500 billion for palliative to cushion the effect of subsidy removal. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, read the president’s letter […]
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The Senate has passed a Bill seeking to compensate victims of the EndSARS protest, for second reading. The Bill, which is sponsored by Senator Gershom Bassey (PDP, Cross River), passed the Second Reading stage at plenary on Wednesday. Recalls that EndSARS protests organised to protest police brutality in the country, took violent dimension in October […]
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The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Emeka Orji, on Thursday, said the National Assembly has invited the association for a meeting on Friday (tomorrow). Residents doctors across 79 tertiary health facilities commenced a five-day warning strike on Wednesday to press home their demands. The doctors are demanding an immediate increment in […]
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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has anointed former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio as the Senate President of the 10th Assembly, while Hon. Tajudeen Abbas from Kaduna State has also been named as the Speaker of the House. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix […]
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The House of Representatives has asked the government of the United Kingdom and the court in that country to temper justice with mercy in sentencing Ike Ekweremadu, a Nigerian senator, found guilty in March of “organ trafficking”. The resolution was a sequel to a motion of urgent public importance moved by Toby Okechukwu (PDP, Enugu) […]
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The Bola Tinubu presidential campaign spokesman in the southeast, Dr Josef Onoh has repudiated Senators-elect and House of Representatives members elect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) who accepted collection of their Certificates of Return while their political parties are contesting the election that produced them and the President-elect, Bola […]
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