DEAD OR ALIVE: BUHARI CORRECTS PDP IMPUNITY, NO VACANCY IN ASO-ROCK

Late PRESIDENT MUSA YARADUA Left for treatment in Saudi Arabia refuse to hand over to his then deputy which left that seat Vacant because he never came back alive. Senate had to ractify it before we had an acting president.

SULIVAN CHIME, the past Enugu State Governor left the shores of this country for cancer treatment never handed over to his deputy, PDP never blinked an eye over that atrocity. We all knew how activities in that state was grounded the Deputy was not allowed to sign any document.

Presidential shield around Aso Rock thieves - President Buhari as the Chief clearance

It is sad that many people do not get it regarding President Buhari's letter to the Senate on Mr. Babachir Lawal. This isn't about whether the rules of engagement by the Senate and it's recommendations were fair or not. And it is not about whether the report was a minority report or otherwise.
It's about the integrity of the Presidency vis-a-vis the underpinning mission of the Administration itself to rid Nigeria of high level corruption. It is about the person, and inevitably the office, of the SGF having conducted itself in such a manner that, first and foremost, it could be accused of that "grass cutter" heist in the first place. It is about the propriety of key state officials and/or organs of state being found with fingers soiled in oil, even if legally explicable. Not all legal validation amounts to moral solidity. That is where the President misstepped. Much has been preached to the Presidency about symbolism and optics. If your sole mission is to fight corruption, then the mere appearance of possible corruption should be offensive to your office. Your credo should be that "there would be no corruption and there would be no appearance of corruption".

DEFECTION: I AM GOING NOWHERE, SAYS EKWEREMADU

The Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has dismissed as false, insinuations and reports that the Senator could be on his way to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to save his job.

In a statement made available to reporters in Abuja, the Special Assistant (Political Matters) to the Deputy President of the Senate on Political Affairs, Hon. Okey Ozoani, described the reports as “a fantasy of those peddling it”.

He assured the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, faithful and Nigerians that “Ekweremadu is going nowhere”.

BREAKING : NIGERIAN SENATE PASSES PEACE CORPS BlLL FOR FINAL READING

The Senate has just concluded consideration of the Nigerian Peace Corps( NPC) Bill‎, 2016 (SB. 173 & SB.183) ‎and passed it for 3rd reading.

"The Peace Corps has been functioning already we are only providing it with a stronger frame work. We look forward to efficient functionability in view of the scarce resources that we have and help in youth unemployment" ‎- President ‎of The Senate Bukola Saraki

Presidency Seeks Confirmation of Magu as EFCC Boss

PRESIDENCY SENDS LETTER SEEKING MAGU'S CONFIRMATION AS EFCC BOSS. 

News from the National Assembly has it that the presidency has sent a letter to the Senate seeking screening of Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of EFCC. 

The letter requesting Magu's confirmation was read by Senate President, Bukola Saraki at plenary today, July 14, 2016.‪#‎Ibrahimmagu‬. ‪#‎EFCC‬

Senate of Lies: Grazing Bill passes first reading at senate

Read: Pendency Of The National Grazing Reserve Bill At The National Assembly, Setting The Records Straight - ISCLRL

The Senate on Wednesday passed for first reading, the bill seeking to establish grazing reserves across the country.

The bill sponsored by a Senator representing Kano Central, Rabiu Kwankwaso titled ‘National Grazing Reserves Agency Bill, 2016′ was read the first time on the floor of the upper chambers today.

How House of Representatives Passes 19 Critical Bills in One Sitting

In continuation of its resolve to improve on the quality of and reduce the time frame within which bills are passed, the Nigeria's House of Representatives on Thursday passed 19 bills.

The bills, which, however, require concurrence of the senate and presidential assent to be made laws, cover serious areas of concentration of the present administration including anti-corruption, national minimum wage, strengthening of small and medium businesses, manufacturing sector, among others.

It will be recalled that the House only recently passed 130 bills through first reading on the same day. Many of those bills, it will be noted, have scaled through further legislative processes.

Brazil moves to remove its own president, put her on trial

The extraordinary political turmoil in Brazil reached a watershed on Wednesday as members of the Senate neared a final vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office for up to six months and put her on trial for alleged misdeeds in economic policy.

Even as the nation watched agog as a full day of mostly sober debate was broadcast on live television before a final vote expected later in the evening, it appeared all but certain that a simple majority in the upper chamber would be mustered to take the movement to remove Ms Rousseff to the next step.

“There is no path for us but opposition,” the most senior Senator of the President’s ruling Workers Party, Senator Humberto Costa told reporters, essentially acknowledging that a loss for the president and himself was nigh.

PRESS STATEMENT ON CURRENT FUEL SITUATION IN NIGERIA BY MINISTER OF STATE FOR PETROLEUM RESOURCES, IBE KACHIKWU

We have just finished a meeting of various stakeholders presided over by His Excellency, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The meeting had in attendance the Leadership of the Senate, House of Representatives, Governors Forum, and Labour Unions (NLC, TUC, NUPENG, and PENGASSAN).

The meeting reviewed:

1. The current fuel scarcity and supply difficulties in the country.

2. The exorbitant prices being paid by Nigerians for the product. These prices range on the average from N150 to N250 per litre currently.

3. The meeting also noted that the main reason for the current problem is the inability of importers of petroleum products to source foreign exchange at the official rate due to the massive decline of foreign exchange earnings of the federal government. As a result, private marketers have been unable to meet their approximate 50% portion of total national supply of PMS.

Saraki's Trials:Dino Melaye Pledges Absolute Loyalty to the Senate President

Senator Dino Melaye who is currently representing the people of Kogi West in the Nigeria's Upper Legislative Chamber, Senate, has pledged his absolute loyalty to the embertled Senate President, Senator Olubukola Abubakar Sarak.


Sarak is currently standing trials of a 13 count charges base on false asset declearations at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja

Melaye took ot his facebook page today and declared that that his total loyalty remained with with Saraki and that only death can take hie loyalty away.

He said : My brother and friend Sen. Bukola Saraki,if you have 1 trillion supporters I'm one,if you have one billion I'm one,if you have one million I'm one,if you have one thousound I'm one if you have ten I'm one,if you have only one supporter I'm one and if you have no single supporter it means I'm dead. No shaking. Four years tooo sure.

Failure to Rescue Chibok Girls: NSA, Service Chiefs to Appear before Senate Today

The National Security Adviser (NSA), General Babagana Monguno (rtd), and service chiefs will today (20-02-16) appear before the Senate to explain the reasons they have failed to rescue the school girls kidnapped in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, two years after. Making the announcement while presiding over the plenary yesterday, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said senators would meet with the service chiefs behind closed-door today at 1p.m.

The scheduled meeting with the service chiefs is in accordance with the resolution passed by the Senate last Thursday in commemoration of two years anniversary of the kidnap of Chibok girls.

Last Thursday marked the second year anniversary of the abduction of 276 girls who were writing their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in the school by Boko Haram insurgents.

Senators Saraki And Ekweremadu's Elections Are A Nullity By Jiti Ogunye

 This is a very interesting take on the State of NASS Union .... 

Since the National Assembly (NA)  erupted in crisis during the  "inauguration" of the 8th NA and the "election" of the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, the 9th of June, 2015, a lot has been said and written about the issues in dispute in the crisis.  Unfortunately, rather than subject the "election"  in the NA, in particular  in the Senate, on that day, to a rigorous legal examination, in order to determine the legality of that election, many of the principal actors in  the NA leadership crisis or in the All Progressives Congress (APC) imbroglio, and a host of other  interveners have been discussing the  politics of the crisis and its  "mishandling" by the APC leadership, who, according to these interveners,  was hell bent on foisting a leadership on the NA. Many simple-minded gloaters have even reduced the serious issues thrown up by the crisis to a  celebration of the  " political defeat of  Bola Ahmed Tinubu", as if that alleged defeat was all that was needed to make the aberration that occurred in the NA acceptable.  In this intervention, we seek to redirect the discourse. We argue that the NA leadership crisis primarily should be discussed and resolved on the basis of enquiries as to whether there had been a violation of the  rule of law and the provisions of  the Constitution.   -    Jiti Ogunye

What transpired in the NA on Tuesday, 9th June, 2015 was a coup d'état. If it was merely a  coup d'état by  the treacherous members of the APC against their party's choices  for  the offices that constitute the leadership of the NA, we would not have been bothered. We are bothered because it  was also a coup d'état against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the rule of law.

On that day, while Senator Bukola Saraki of the APC, who has confessed that, like a typical coup d'état leader, he sneaked into the premises of the NA at dawn, was "elected  unopposed" as the Senate President, by 57 Senators, in the absence of 51 Senators, who were "ambushed" into a fence-mending and ranks-closing meeting that eventually turned out to be a hoax, Senator Ike Ekweremadu of the People Democratic Party ( PDP) "defeated" his opponent, Senator Ali Ndume of the APC by 50 votes to 24 votes  ( with one abstention)  to clinch the post of the Deputy Senate President. Instructively, the APC controls the Senate with 59 ( now 58)  Senators, while the PDP has 49 Senators, meaning that 108 members ought to have congregated on the Senate Floor on the said date to constitute the leadership of the Senate. Alas, only 57 senators and 75 senators took part in the elections into the two offices.

Boko Haram: Why Nigeria withdraws peacekeeping troops from Mali

The President of the Senate, David Mark, on Monday said activities of Boko Haram insurgents had compelled the government to withdraw Nigeria’s peacekeeping troops from Mali. 

He made the remark at a two-day retreat on Nigeria’s Foreign Policy jointly organised by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos. 

The Senate President said Boko Haram insurgency had become a major challenge to Nigeria’s efforts at forging relationships with her French-speaking neighbours.

Senate renews emergency rule with 8 conditions

Nigeria Senate yesterday endorsed a six-month extension of emergency rule in three states in the Northeast. The endorsement was, however, with eight conditions which the lawmakers said must be observed in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

Some senators of Northern extraction had last week vowed to stop the extension. The lawmakers contended that one year of emergency rule had not yielded the expected results.

Before the upper chamber threw its back behind the extension it held over four hour closed door session to thrash contentious issues especially those raised by opposing Senators. Some observers were, however, taken aback with the turn of events, especially the unanimous adoption of the motion to extend the emergency rule.

STATE OF EMERGENCY: THE THIRD RENEWAL BY GUMI

The prophet -peace be upon him- said: “a true believer is never stung from the same hole twice”. The Caliph Muawiya said: “there is no wisdom without experience”.

Today, we all know that any medical Doctor that will prescribe the same antibiotic while treating a bacterial infection that refuses to subside needs his certificate to be reexamined. These words of wisdoms have a lot to say about our government and legislators. It is unbelievable that we as a nation have sunk so low that even common sense is a rare gem to be found.

Was not the chief of army staff ordered by the same legislators to relocate to Maiduguri weeks before the abduction of the innocent school girls in Chibok? Virtually, the legislators here had to assume the position of the C-in-C from what they observed of the callousness of the government recognized even internationally. We are then in trouble. A knife in the hands of a madman on a market day!

Igbo Political Elites Play “Bread And Butter Politics” - Ngige

Senator Chris Ngige representing Anambra Central Senatorial Zone in the Senate, has said one of the major problems militating against Ndigbo in Nigeria politics is that their political elites play “bread and butter politics”. Ngige, who stated this when he spoke to newsmen in Awka, the state capital, said that is the reason there are a lot of prominent Igbo political elites in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and when they return home, they come with deluge of policemen and security men to protect themselves.

Nigerian Senate Okays Godwin Emefiele As New CBN Governor

The Nigerian National Assembly (Senate) on Wednesday confirmed former Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Godwin Emefiele as the new Governor of the Nigeria Central bank (CBN).

Mr. Godwin Emefiele will now take over the reins of CBN from Dr. Sarah Alade, the most senior deputy governor at the bank who has been Governor in acting capacity since Sanusi’s suspension.

Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan nominated Emefiele to the Senate on February 20th 2014, the same day he ousted then Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on allegations of financial reckless and misconduct.

Shocking: Senator Simeon Oduoye is dead. He represented Osun Central in the Senate from 2007 to 2011

There is a reports that the Nigerian former senator, Simeon Oduoye is dead.

 He represented Osun Central in the Senate from 2007 to 2011.

An online news porter, 'Gbege' reported a tweet as saying the senator is dead.

"Senator Simeon Oduoye is dead. He represented Osun Central in the Senate from 2007 to 2011.  @omojuwa @olulateef @abusidiqu @elrufai"

He was a distinguished Senator of the 5th (2003 -2007) and 6th (2007 -2011) National Assemblies

Details soon!