The Senate on Thursday said it will not confirm the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Presidency had six months ago sent Magus’s name to the Senate for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. But the spokesman of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi, told newsmen that Magu will not be confirmed. Sabi said his nomination had been returned to the Presidency. He said there were security reports that led to the decision. Sabi announced the position of the Senate while Magu was still in the closed door session where…
Author: Odeworitshe Okafor
The screening of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, by the Senate is taking place behind closed door. This is against the norm where nominees are screened in the open chamber. Magu, who was recommended to the Senate by the Presidency for confirmation about six months ago, has had the screening delayed and then postponed twice. Just on Thursday morning, the Leader of the Senate, Ali Ndume, and Senator Dino Melaye came close to trading punches over the issue.
The Leader of the Senate, Ali Ndume, and Senator Dino Melaye on Thursday came close to exchanging punches. This followed an argument between Ndume and Melaye over the confirmation of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. The senators had their altercation in the office of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, but it spilled over to the entrance of the Senate chamber. While Ndume is in support of the confirmation of Magu, Melaye is vehemently opposing it. Ndume and Magu are both from Borno State. Meanwhile, the Senate has gone into…
Kanu, in a video on Tuesday inside the courtroom of a Federal High Court in Abuja, was uncontrollable as he fumed in loud voice over the decision of Justice Binta Nyako to grant the Federal Government’s request for witnesses in his case to be shielded from the public
Bello made the disclosure on Thursday when he commissioned a multi-million dollar Integrated Rice Processing and Milling Complex constructed by Korea International Cooperation Agency in Bida, Niger State.
Contrary to the information given on Wednesday, the Senate on Thursday failed to screen the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. Magu was due for screening for the confirmation of his appointment as the substantive chairman of the EFCC. A letter to that effect was forwarded by the Presidency to the Senate six months ago. However on Thursday despite the presence of Magu in the Senate, he was not screened. The Eagle Online learnt that his screening was not on the Order Paper for the day. As at preas time, Magu had left the National…
President Muhammadu Buhari is to present the 2017 Budget to the National Assembly on December 14, 2016. The date was announced at the Senate plenary on Tuesday. This was sequel to a letter sent by President Buhari to the National Assembly. There has been altercation between the Executive and the Legislature over the presentation of the Budget. Both arms have been blaming each other over the delay in the presentation of the Budget. The Budget is usually presented to the Joint Session of the National Assembly.
The Federal government has banned the importation of vehicles into Nigeria through the land borders. The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, Wale Adeniyi, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Lagos. According to the statement, the prohibition order covers all new and used vehicles. The statement said: “The ban is sequel to a Presidential directive restricting all vehicle imports to Nigerian seaports only. “The order takes effect from January 1, 2017. “The restriction on importation of vehicles follows that of rice, whose imports have been banned through the land borders since April…
Alade told The Eagle Online in Nairobi, Kenya that she had noticed that the challenges facing developing countries are the same and that tackling them only requires taking them one after the other
The Super Falcons on Saturday won the African Women Cup of Nations. The Super Falcons defeated the Lionesses of Cameroon by a lone goal. The goal was scored by Desire Okparanozie. Cameroon hosted the competition, which came to a close on Saturday.
Senators electrd on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday staged a walk out of plenary. This followed the defection of one of them, Senator Yele Omogunwa, to the All Progressives Congress. Omogunwa is representing Ondo South Senatorial District. He had before the Ondo State governorship election, won by the APC’s candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu, defected to the party. Wednesday’s announcement in the Senate was to formally inform his collleagues.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Ondo State election, Rotimi Akeredolu, as the governor-elect. Akeredolu was pronounced the winner of the election by the INEC Returning Officer for the poll, Prof. Abdul Ganiyu Ambali. Ambali, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, said he made the declaration with Akeredolu having satisfied the requirements of the law for the election. Akeredolu dusted his closest rivals, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party and Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, when he polled 244,842 votes. Jegede had 150,380 votes,…
The Supreme Court has thrown out a suit filed by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Jomoh Ibrahim. The Supreme Court said it could not hear the suit based on the initial arguments except the parties re-file it based on the ruling of the Court of Appeal on Tuesday. Sheriff and Ibrahim are seeking their recognition as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and the party’s governorahip candidate for the Ondo State November 26, 2016 respectively. On Wednesday, the Special Panel of the Court of Appeal threw out their suits seeking to invalidate the National chairmanship of Senator Ahmed…
The Court of Appeal Special Panel on the Ondo State governorship poll has fixed 12pm on Wednesday (today) to deliver ruling on the tussle over who the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the election will be. The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the Court of Appeal the go ahead to deliver the ruling. The tussle is between Jimoh Ibrahim and Eyitayo Jegede. The Independent National Electoral Commission had recognised Ibrahim as the candidate based on the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The ruling was delivered by Justice Okon Abang.
A Supreme Court judge, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, has been arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Ngwuta was arraigned by the Federal Government over allegations of fraud. The case is being heard by Justice John Tsoho. As at press time, Justice Tsoho had stepped the case down for two hours for the argument of the application for bail. This was after Ngwuta had pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyer, Kanu Agabi (SAN), moved the application for his bail. Justice Ngwuta was among the seven judges whose houses were raided and arrrested by operatives of the…
The Falconets of Nigeria on Wednesday salvaged their pride with a 3-1 defeat of their Canadian counterparts in their second Group B game at the ongoing U-20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea.The Coach Peter Dedevbo tutored women came from a goal down to win after Canada’s Gabrielle Carle opened scoring in the 15th minute to put her team in the lead. Nigeria’s Chinaza Uchendu, however, got the equalizer at the 45th minute through a penalty. At the blast of the whistle for the second half, Joy Bokiri gave Nigeria her second goal in 40 seconds. Chiwendu Ihezuo sealed…
Information reaching The Eagle Online has it that two students of the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma in Edo State have been shot dead during a protest. The students are protesting the hike in school fees by the management of the institution. Soldiers said to be at the scene of the protest were reported to have shot into the air to disperse the protesting students. Two of the students were said to have been hit by bullets and died on the spot. However, this could not be independently confirmed before press time.
A chieftain of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Olaniwun Ajayi, is dead, the Nigerian Tribune Is reporting. Ajayi was reported to have died in the early hours of Friday in a Lagos hospital. He was aged 91. He hailed from Isara in Ogun State.
This was revealed at the Senate plenary on Thursday
Apart from taking the points raised by the EFCC in the statement point by point, Sani-Kayode equally provided a snapshot of the balance of the Access Bank accounts run by Chikwendu