Presidency receives clean budget details from joint committee

The Presidency last night received the report of the committee set up to look into the contentious areas in the 2016 budget.

The committee was constituted at the end of the meeting of President Muhammdu Buhari with the leadership of the National Assembly last Tuesday.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, led the executive arm in the committee and the Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun Suleimon, was in charge of the legislature.

Edo deputy speaker, four others suspended for Misconducts

The Deputy Speaker, Hon. Festus Ebea, and three other members of the Edo State House of assembly has been reportedly suspended on the ground of misconduct by the Assembly. The suspension of the Deputy Speaker was said to be inevitable owing to his arrogance, dictatorship and disrespect for the office of the Speaker of the House, Uyi Igbe.

A total Number of 11 Assembly members were present at the sitting where the lawmakers were suspended under section 38 rules three of the House Rules.

Details later..

APC True Colour of Tanbuwal: Can't declare defecting lawmakers’ seats vacant

Nigeria House of Representatives has declared that Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was not under pressure to declare vacant seats of the 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Victor Ogene (APGA, Anambra), stated this at a news briefing after a closed door session at yesterday’s plenary.

“There was no pressure on the Speaker to sack the defected legislators. If there was, we would not have held the closed door session today, he said.


He explained that they were nominal parties in the suit by virtue of their office and the counsel was briefed by the Management of the National Assembly to represent the House of Representatives as an institution.

Ogene clarified that the executive session was convoked by the leadership to create room for the legislators to talk among themselves and “and there was nothing unusual.” “We talked to ourselves in order to get things clear about the defection matter that is already in court.