Akpatason, in the motion, urged the Federal Government to hearken to calls for a review of the national minimum wage figure to avert the looming nationwide strike action threatened by workers.
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Others expected to be probed were the Comptroller-General of Customs; the Executive Director, Nigerian Export Promotion Council; Director-General, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria; Head, Nigerian Quarantine Service; and heads of all other relevant agencies.
Namdas was nominated by Hon. Mohammed Muttaka of the Republic of Ghana and was later unanimously elected unopposed by members of the West African caucus.
The Senate is inviting seven banks Managing Directors at a time when the case is also being considered in the House of Representatives by the same committee
“Upon further discussion with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position,” Murphy, an eight-term member of the House of Representatives, serving since 2003, said.
The lawmaker added that the poor funding had resulted in unpaid allowances of home based officers, huge debts owed service providers and poor representation of officers posted to those missions.
Gisalo is representing Abuja Municipal Area Council/Buari, while Tijani is from Kogi State.
The Committee had severally invited Magu to appear before it on a petition by former First Lady, Patience Jonathan.
This followed a motion by Hassan Saleh on the “Need to Investigate the Reduction in the Cut-off Marks for Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria’’ at plenary on Tuesday.
He said some of the minors in prisons may be innocent victims of police raids who could not meet the conditions required to regain their freedom.
The Apex Court said Hembe was not the right candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2015 National Assembly election in Benue.
Dogara said this on Monday in Abuja when he received in audience Colonel Adama Coulibaly, the Director General of Inter Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, a unit of the Economic Community of West African States.
Jibril, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja, said the bill aims to regulate activities of the NGOs and keep them in proper check as developmental partners of government.
The OSGF made its position known at the public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Pension on a Bill to exclude personnel of paramilitary and anti-graft agencies from the contributory pension scheme
The Bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Dickson Tarkihir (Benue-APC), also canvasses national effort toward early detection of diseases.
This was sequel to a motion under Matters of Public Importance by Obinna Chidoka (Anambra-PDP) to ascertain the cause(s) of the influx and how to stop it
After the meeting, the Deputy Chairman of the House Committee, Hon. Tony Nwulu, told journalists that the Reps gave SEC a two-week ultimatum to close out its investigations on Oando and report back to it.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, said this on Tuesday in Abuja in his remarks at the resumption of plenary after the legislators’ seven-week recess.
The House made its position known in a statement by the Deputy Majority Leader, Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, on Thursday
The senators and Reps affirmed their support for the unity of Nigeria anchored on justice, equity and fairness to all regions