The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has condemned the assassination attempt on the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son, by gunmen.
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This followed a motion by Hon. Ahmed Safana at the plenary.
This was even as Senator Faseyi challenged his colleague representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, Senator Biodun Olujimi, to come out openly to tell the whole world her role in the crisis rocking the PDP in the state, popularly known as Fountain of Knowledge
The tribute followed a letter by Hon. Segius Oguns and read by Speaker Yakubu Dogara, notifying the House of the demise of Anenih.
The lawmakers made their defections known in separate letters read by Speaker Yakubu Dogara on the floor of the house.
They dissociated themselves from the Saturday meeting of some stakeholders held at the instance of the Senate Minority Leader, Biodun Olujimi, which called for dissolution of the State Party Exco
The chairman of the committee, Hajia Aishatu Dukku, said this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
Dogara said the Act when amended will accommodate trafficking courts, membership of the Board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Dogara said;” The development was sequel to the need to fill some of the existing vacancies in the house.”
The House of Representatives says it will investigate, reveal and make public, the identities of those indicted in the looting of the defunct Nigerian Airways Ltd. to the tune of N60 billion.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to investigate the increasing rate of adulterated petroleum products and its negative impact in the country.
The lawmakers are: Hassan Omale and Muhammad Soba.
The advice is sequel to a motion, under matters of urgent public importance, moved by Hon. Uchechukwu Nnam-Obi at plenary, on the need to address the plight of communities sacked by flood in Rivers.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to avert erosion and fire disaster caused by petroleum pipeline explosion in Umunwanwa Umuopara in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday began an investigation into the alleged gross misconduct and corruption levied against the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf.
This was sequel to a motion under matters of urgent public importance by Hon. Yakubu Barde on the need to address killings, abduction and destruction of property in Kajuru and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State.
Bankole, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, said this on Monday when he was officially unveiled by the party as its flagbearer at the party’s secretariat in Abeokuta
Eminent Nigerians such as former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida; former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar; Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress
Reacting to the report on Friday in Abakaliki when he spoke with newsmen, the senator described the report as a gross misrepresentation of facts
The House of Representatives on Thursday stepped down the debate on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018 currently before it.