President Jonathan said the National Assembly did not fulfil the constitutional requirements for the amendments to be effected
Author: Emmanuel Leke
This was contained in a letter which President Goodluck Jonathan forwarded on Tuesday to the Senate President, David Mark, for the consideration by the upper legislative chamber
Rule 2, with the headline: “Election of presiding and other officers states that in determining ranking,” states: “The following order shall apply: (i) Senators returning based on number of times re-elected; (II) Senators who had been members of the House of Representatives; (iii) Senators elected as Senators for the first time
The launch further consolidates FirstBank’s position as the largest corporate and retail banking financial institution in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa), with presence in Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Senegal as well as presence in the UK and Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Abu Dhabi and Beijing
Heavy shooting has been reported in parts of Ebonyi State. Ikwo Local Government Area is one of the areas reportedly affected. Owing to the development, most voters in the area have returned home. Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission are also said to have panicked following the development.
“I will stay in the PDP to contribute my quota to the rebuilding and restructuring of the party
They alleged that the senatorial and House of Representatives elections in which Senator Gilbert Nnaji and Dr. Emeka Ujam of the Peoples Democratic Party were respectively declared winners were rigged
Senator Goje explained that there is no reason for the arrest because there is no incidence of fighting or disruption of public peace in Kashere
But this followed an initial tension earlier in Otuoke, Bayelsa State as the Card Readers appeared to be failing.
Sanusi, who spoke during a Christine Amanpour programme on CNN, added that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, was right on the level of corruption in the country
Mark, in a statement issued on his behalf on Monday, said: “I will like to state without any form of ambiguity that the President of the Senate complied with all the legislative practices and procedures in the confirmation of all the ministerial nominees that appeared before the Senate
Mark dismissed insinuations that the present administration is ill-prepared for the elections
This decision was taken after the meeting of the Conference Committee on the 2015-2017 Medium Term Expenditure Framework
Our correspondent confirmed the development on the Twitter handle of Special Adviser on Media to Tambuwal, Imam Imam.
Lynch stated this when he visited Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba
The APC, to which Tinubu belongs, opposed the screening and clearance of Obanikoro
Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon had before Obanikoro was asked to take a bow and go raised a point of order against the move to screen the former governorship aspirant of the PDP in Lagos State
Obanikoro had been allegedly involved in the controversial Ekiti State governorship election audio tape, which is now popularly called Ekitigate, and series of petitions have been submitted against him seeking his disqualification
The senators said the military has done much to push out Boko Haram from the North East
Onolememen lamented that in view of the lean allocation for the Ministry in the 2015 Budget, that out of the Ministry’s portfolio of about 210 ongoing road and bridge projects, only 33 have been provided for and the provisions are insufficient to encourage the contractors to sustain appreciable progress of works on site