The upper chamber also urged the National Emergency Management Agency to provide relief materials to the affected areas.
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Saraki made the call while addressing a delegation of the Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly, who visited him at the National Assembly, led by its Chairman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai.
The flight carrying Kim Hak-Song, Tony Kim and Kim Dong-Chul is scheduled to land at 2.00 a.m (0600 GMT) on Thursday at a military base outside Washington.
The senate at plenary on Wednesday, declared the I-G as enemy of democracy and unfit to hold any public office within and outside the country for failing to honour its invitation thrice.
This is contained in a statement signed by the State Commissioner of Information, Malam Mohammed Garba and issued to newsmen in Kano on Wednesday.
Chairman, Partners for Electoral Reform, Ezenwa Nwagwu and Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani, made the call at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.
Baru said this at a stakeholders’ workshop on validation by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Abuja on Wednesday.
This followed a Point of Order by Senator Shehu Sani in plenary.
The General Manager, Corporate Communications, FAAN, Henrietta Yakubu, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeriain Lagos following a fresh outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dr Abubakar Kana, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, said this when the state House of Assembly Committee on Judiciary, Ethics and Privileges paid oversight function to the ministry on Wednesday in Lafia.
It would be recalled that the EFCC on Monday detained Jang over alleged embezzlement of N6 billion while serving as governor in Plateau.
The Minister of State, Education, Prof Anthony Onwuka, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the council’s meeting which was presided over by Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, at the Council Chamber of the presidential villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.
Abdul stated this during an investigative hearing into the incident by joint ad hoc committee investigating the incident.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and publicity, Femi Adesina, raised the alarm in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday.
Oluwarinu, the 13th prosecution witness, told the court on Wednesday while being led in evidence by the prosecutor, Oluwaleke Atolagbe that he was a Lagos based architect hired by Dokpesi.
Ambode made the pledge at the closing ceremony of the Batch A Orientation Course in Lagos.
They are: Justice Uuter Dery, Justice Mustapha Logoh, Justice Gilbert Addo and Justice Charles Quist. The decision takes immediate effect.
The Coordinator of the NYSC in the state, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola on Wednesday.
The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Enugu.
The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, disclosed this during an inspection tour of the mill alongside other members of the State Executive Council.