Ekweremadu added that the institute, upon completion, will be the hub of parliamentary training in the country
Author: Emmanuel Leke
The Minister, who appeared before members of the Senate Committee on Sports, said Keshi has not rejected the contract offered him by the Nigeria Football Federation and therefore remains the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles
It could be recalled the Senate had twice deferred Obanikoro’s confirmation due to the insistence of the All Progressives Congress senators from Lagos State not to shift grounds on the issue
The Commission had appeared before the Committee to defend its 2014 budget and present 2015 budget proposal for scrutiny
A source close to meeting informed The Eagle Online that during the closed doors session, the issue of the Ekiti State leaked rigging audio tape was extensively debated between senators of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress
The Naira was devalued from $1 to N155 to $1 to N199, with the effect that it sold in the black market at N233 to $1 last week
The position of the Nigerian Navy however contradicts that of the Ministry of Finance, which put the figure of crude oil theft at 400,000 barrels per day
The VAPP Bill is an amalgam of nine different bills before the National Assembly during the 5th and 6th Assembly, carried out by WRAPA and FIDA with support from DFID
Maccido, who spoke to newsmen, insisted that Nigeria was not broke
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Paullius Igwe, gave the directive when Nigerian Police Force appeared before the committee to defend its 2015 budget
Senate sources said on his Nigerian international passport, he was born in 1954, while that of the United States of America bore 1960 as his birth date
The APC senators said only dishonest politicians will want Jega to be removed
Some senators who spoke against Service Wide votes argued that the provision is a conduit pipe being used by the executive since the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to siphon money from the national purse
One of the petitions, dated February 12 and submitted to the Senate on February 17, was authored by Nigerians United To Save Democracy
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics in a statement by Clement Chirman, its Public Relations officer, stated that the order was to avert the nationwide strike scheduled to begin on Wednesday (today)
The budget of the National Insurance Commission, which The Eagle Online had access to, revealed that the Agency budgeted N264 million for capital expenditure for 2014
Senators, who were in the closed doors session, which lasted for about one and a half hours, accused the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, of deliberately proposing the “meagre” amount for capital expenditure
This was just as Jega also revealed to the senators that over four million Nigerians have engaged in multiple voting
The INEC boss, however, said the the problem is not with the production of the PVCs but the collection
Jega spoke when he appeared before the Senate to display the workings of the Permanent Voter Cards and Card Reader Machines